Fixed Income Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fixed Income
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 386 432
Rank change year-on-year +43 +46 +66
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 12 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.015% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.051% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £393 £603 £632
25th Percentile £438 £606 £661
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £718
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -9.41% +92.62%
75th Percentile £556 £694 £771
90th Percentile £568 £698 £797
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,056 5,920 7,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.74% 29.13% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 3,512 4,848
10th Percentile £225 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £393 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -1.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 653 315
10th Percentile £14.87 £12.15 £16.57
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +109.30%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.25 £66.21
90th Percentile £79.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +29.73%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK excluding London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK excluding London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the UK excluding London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK excluding London

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Northern Ireland - 5 £538 - 4
Scotland - 4 - - 1
North of England +4 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +2 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Derivative
1 8 (66.67%) Equities
2 4 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Market Risk
3 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) Open Source
4 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Basel III
1 2 (16.67%) MiFID
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 2 (16.67%) Reuters
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk