Fixed Income Contracts in the City of London

Fixed Income
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 112 119
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 24 13 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 0.60% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.93% 1.93% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 48
10th Percentile £546 £628 £288
25th Percentile £613 £772 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £834 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +11.23% -1.64%
75th Percentile £925 £884 £888
90th Percentile £1,085 £956 £991
Central London median daily rate £700 £834 £750
% change year-on-year -16.09% +11.23% -1.64%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Fixed Income falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 610 675 1,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.74% 30.93% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 463 878
10th Percentile £365 £275 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £848 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £611
% change year-on-year - -5.93% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -26.32%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) ION Anvil
2 1 (4.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.17%) Murex MxG2000
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) Prefect
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) KDB
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
3 1 (4.17%) Kdb+
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Power Query
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (75.00%) Finance
2 13 (54.17%) Banking
3 12 (50.00%) Front Office
4 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (8.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Analyst
2 10 (41.67%) Business Analyst
3 7 (29.17%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Product Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Business Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) WPF
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Equities
2 7 (29.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (16.67%) Derivative
4 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.33%) Market Risk
5 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.33%) Economics
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Ruby
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) CFA
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.33%) MBA
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) EMIR
2 3 (12.50%) MiFID
3 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.33%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) ION Trading
2 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.17%) CQG
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Murex
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Reuters