Fixed Income Contract Job Trends

Fixed Income
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 265 186
Rank change year-on-year -213 -79 +92
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 206 309 507
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.95% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 2.66% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 269 470
10th Percentile £418 £538 £563
25th Percentile £638 £650 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +75.00% -23.08% +3.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,521 11,596 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 35.70% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 7,089 7,058
10th Percentile £320 £295 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 585 455
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.11
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.88 £29.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -41.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.36 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +31.20% -47.69% +17.04%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in the UK

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fixed Income.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fixed Income.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. 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
England -214 189 £755 +0.67% 302
London -147 176 £750 - 292
Work from Home -198 31 £850 +13.33% 87
UK excluding London -88 27 £875 +75.00% 41
Northern Ireland +8 8 £390 -23.90% 12
North of England -64 7 £875 - 1
Scotland -23 6 £646 - 11
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South West - 4 £875 - 6
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -49 2 £875 +133.33% 2
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 2

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.43%) MTS
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (8.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.43%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.97%) Actimize
3 2 (0.97%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.49%) Summit
4 1 (0.49%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.17%) AWS
2 11 (5.34%) GCP
2 11 (5.34%) Snowflake
3 10 (4.85%) Azure
4 9 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.37%) Serverless
5 7 (3.40%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.94%) Datadog
8 4 (1.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.97%) GitHub
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) Multicast
2 4 (1.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.49%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.91%) KDB
3 6 (2.91%) Kdb+
4 5 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.43%) Metadata
5 4 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.94%) Power BI
6 3 (1.46%) Tableau
7 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.49%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (6.80%) JIRA
2 10 (4.85%) Git
3 5 (2.43%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.43%) ERwin
3 5 (2.43%) GitLab
3 5 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (1.94%) Storybook
4 4 (1.94%) Vite
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.97%) JMeter
5 2 (0.97%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.97%) Mocha
5 2 (0.97%) MSTest
5 2 (0.97%) QUnit
5 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.97%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 136 (66.02%) Front Office
2 125 (60.68%) Finance
3 108 (52.43%) Banking
4 72 (34.95%) Investment Banking
5 41 (19.90%) Social Skills
6 27 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.80%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.88%) Back Office
9 5 (2.43%) Law
10 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (37.38%) Developer
2 66 (32.04%) Senior
3 47 (22.82%) Senior Developer
4 44 (21.36%) Java Developer
5 41 (19.90%) Analyst
6 37 (17.96%) Senior Java Developer
7 35 (16.99%) React Developer
7 35 (16.99%) UI Developer
8 32 (15.53%) Business Analyst
9 31 (15.05%) Senior React Developer
9 31 (15.05%) Senior UI Developer
10 16 (7.77%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.31%) Lead
12 10 (4.85%) Data Analyst
12 10 (4.85%) Technical Business Analyst
13 9 (4.37%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.88%) Quantitative Developer
14 8 (3.88%) Technical Analyst
15 7 (3.40%) Applications Support
15 7 (3.40%) Front Office Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.73%) React
2 47 (22.82%) Redux
3 13 (6.31%) .NET
4 12 (5.83%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (4.85%) OpenFin
6 8 (3.88%) Kafka
7 7 (3.40%) Node.js
8 6 (2.91%) Middleware
8 6 (2.91%) PySpark
8 6 (2.91%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.91%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.43%) CSS
9 5 (2.43%) HTML
9 5 (2.43%) REST
10 4 (1.94%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.94%) Django
10 4 (1.94%) Flask
10 4 (1.94%) NumPy
10 4 (1.94%) RxJS
10 4 (1.94%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 89 (43.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 78 (37.86%) Equities
3 53 (25.73%) Derivative
4 33 (16.02%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.34%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.34%) Reference Data
7 9 (4.37%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.88%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.88%) Virtual Team
9 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.91%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.56%) Linux
2 16 (7.77%) Unix
3 4 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.50%) Electronic Trading
2 65 (31.55%) Low Latency
3 48 (23.30%) Agile
4 37 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (16.50%) Analytics
6 34 (16.50%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.56%) Software Engineering
8 29 (14.08%) Validation
9 26 (12.62%) Asset Management
10 24 (11.65%) Investment Management
11 23 (11.17%) AI
12 22 (10.68%) Business Analysis
13 20 (9.71%) Risk Management
13 20 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (9.22%) Requirements Gathering
14 19 (9.22%) Scrum
15 18 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
16 17 (8.25%) Order Management
16 17 (8.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) Java
2 53 (25.73%) Python
3 51 (24.76%) TypeScript
4 50 (24.27%) C#
5 48 (23.30%) SQL
6 47 (22.82%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.88%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.91%) C++
9 5 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.43%) Tcl
10 4 (1.94%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) C
11 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.97%) R
13 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (7.28%) Degree
2 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.43%) PhD
4 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.97%) CFA
6 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.40%) MiFID
3 4 (1.94%) QA
4 2 (0.97%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.97%) EMIR
4 2 (0.97%) GAAP
4 2 (0.97%) IFRS
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.97%) Argo
4 2 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.31%) Tradeweb
2 12 (5.83%) Bloomberg
2 12 (5.83%) Charles River
3 11 (5.34%) MarketAxess
4 9 (4.37%) Solace
5 8 (3.88%) Murex
6 7 (3.40%) ION Trading
6 7 (3.40%) Sybase
7 6 (2.91%) Oracle
8 5 (2.43%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.97%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.97%) Calypso
9 2 (0.97%) FIS
9 2 (0.97%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.97%) Temenos
9 2 (0.97%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.49%) Databricks
10 1 (0.49%) eFront
10 1 (0.49%) Refinitiv