Fixed Income Contracts in London

Fixed Income
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 66 130
Rank change year-on-year -42 +64 -2
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 351 556 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 3.29% 1.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.99% 9.72% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 531 447
10th Percentile £550 £563 £514
25th Percentile £638 £663 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £825
90th Percentile - - £938
England median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,020 5,718 8,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.02% 33.82% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 4,015 6,404
10th Percentile £338 £319 £363
25th Percentile £447 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 111 89
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £17.86
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -13.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £45.75 £52.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £85.66
England median hourly rate £32.74 £41.25 £39.00
% change year-on-year -20.64% +5.77% +50.00%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the London region over the 6 months to 21 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +19 33 £700 -12.50% 23
South London +5 7 £738 -7.81%
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 91 (25.93%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (16.24%) Apache
3 6 (1.71%) Confluence
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 45 (12.82%) Aladdin
2 22 (6.27%) thinkFolio
3 7 (1.99%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.42%) ION Anvil
5 3 (0.85%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.28%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 176 (50.14%) AWS
2 104 (29.63%) GCP
3 91 (25.93%) dbt
4 59 (16.81%) Snowflake
5 52 (14.81%) Azure
6 10 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.85%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.42%) Dagster
7 5 (1.42%) Figma
8 3 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (0.85%) Serverless
9 2 (0.57%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.28%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
3 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (25.93%) Amazon Athena
1 91 (25.93%) Apache Arrow
1 91 (25.93%) Apache Iceberg
1 91 (25.93%) Dremio
2 68 (19.37%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (13.39%) Data Lake
4 41 (11.68%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (2.85%) KDB
5 10 (2.85%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.28%) Power BI
8 7 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.42%) Data Mart
11 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.14%) Power Query
12 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.85%) Tableau
13 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.13%) JIRA
2 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.14%) Git
3 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.28%) Gradle
4 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.28%) JUnit
4 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 306 (87.18%) Finance
2 286 (81.48%) Front Office
3 151 (43.02%) Banking
4 95 (27.07%) Investment Banking
5 48 (13.68%) Social Skills
6 22 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.27%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.13%) Back Office
8 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Legal
11 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (50.14%) Developer
2 167 (47.58%) Software Engineer
3 124 (35.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 91 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
4 91 (25.93%) AWS Software Engineer
5 74 (21.08%) Analyst
6 70 (19.94%) Business Analyst
7 67 (19.09%) Python Engineer
8 66 (18.80%) Java Engineer
8 66 (18.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 66 (18.80%) Python Software Engineer
9 57 (16.24%) Senior
10 50 (14.25%) AWS Developer
11 47 (13.39%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 45 (12.82%) Python Developer
13 43 (12.25%) React Developer
14 42 (11.97%) Business Manager
15 40 (11.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 39 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
16 39 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (31.91%) React
2 80 (22.79%) Node.js
2 80 (22.79%) NumPy
3 79 (22.51%) Pandas
4 76 (21.65%) SciPy
5 73 (20.80%) Redux
6 59 (16.81%) AngularJS
7 56 (15.95%) Vue
8 41 (11.68%) gRPC
8 41 (11.68%) Protocol Buffers
9 21 (5.98%) .NET
9 21 (5.98%) PySpark
10 19 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (4.56%) .NET Framework
11 16 (4.56%) Kafka
12 12 (3.42%) GraphQL
13 10 (2.85%) REST
14 9 (2.56%) Middleware
15 8 (2.28%) XML
16 7 (1.99%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 163 (46.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 150 (42.74%) Equities
3 132 (37.61%) Derivative
3 132 (37.61%) Hedge funds
4 36 (10.26%) Pricing Data
5 29 (8.26%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.27%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.28%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.71%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.14%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (1.14%) Grid Computing
11 4 (1.14%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.98%) Linux
2 9 (2.56%) Unix
3 6 (1.71%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (74.07%) Agile
2 199 (56.70%) Asset Management
3 197 (56.13%) Investment Management
4 180 (51.28%) Software Engineering
5 93 (26.50%) Fintech
6 59 (16.81%) Analytics
7 58 (16.52%) Business Analysis
8 55 (15.67%) Portfolio Management
9 51 (14.53%) Performance Attribution
10 50 (14.25%) Order Management
11 48 (13.68%) Risk Management
12 45 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (12.82%) TDD
13 39 (11.11%) User Experience
14 34 (9.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
16 30 (8.55%) Electronic Trading
17 29 (8.26%) Quantitative Research
18 26 (7.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 230 (65.53%) Python
2 149 (42.45%) JavaScript
2 149 (42.45%) TypeScript
3 106 (30.20%) Java
4 97 (27.64%) SQL
5 28 (7.98%) C#
6 13 (3.70%) C++
7 12 (3.42%) Go
8 10 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.71%) F#
10 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.57%) Bash
11 2 (0.57%) Ruby
11 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (7.12%) Degree
2 10 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.57%) CFA
3 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.57%) PMP
4 1 (0.28%) CBAP
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.85%) MiFID
1 10 (2.85%) QA
2 5 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.42%) EMIR
3 2 (0.57%) Basel III
3 2 (0.57%) PMO
4 1 (0.28%) FINRA
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (3.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.71%) Kibana
4 5 (1.42%) logstash
5 2 (0.57%) Ansible
5 2 (0.57%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (10.26%) BISAM
2 22 (6.27%) Charles River
2 22 (6.27%) ION Trading
3 21 (5.98%) Calypso
4 19 (5.41%) SimCorp
5 15 (4.27%) Murex
6 12 (3.42%) Bloomberg
7 9 (2.56%) Microsoft
8 8 (2.28%) Oracle
9 6 (1.71%) Reuters
9 6 (1.71%) Solace
9 6 (1.71%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.42%) Databricks
10 5 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.14%) CQG
11 4 (1.14%) Sybase
11 4 (1.14%) Tradeweb
12 3 (0.85%) IBM
12 3 (0.85%) Portware
12 3 (0.85%) TOWER Software