Fixed Income Contracts in Northern Ireland

Fixed Income
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.03% - 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.81% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £356 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
75th Percentile £506 - £638
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 39 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 46.54% 26.35% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 34
10th Percentile £148 £181 £206
25th Percentile £267 £270 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +21.21% +29.92%
75th Percentile £500 - £475
90th Percentile £575 £531 £612
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 2
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.33
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £13.46
Median hourly rate £26.59 £12.62 £13.84
Median % change year-on-year +110.70% -8.83% -27.14%
75th Percentile £67.94 £23.54 £14.15
90th Percentile £80.05 £31.88 £14.22
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in Northern Ireland

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in Northern Ireland

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in Northern Ireland

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
County Antrim - 8 £425 - 2
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Financial Institution
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (37.50%) Law
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
1 3 (37.50%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
1 3 (37.50%) Data Management
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Regtech
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes