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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 255 170
Rank change year-on-year -176 -85 +104
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 249 356 568
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.08% 1.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 3.09% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 310 537
10th Percentile £450 £538 £550
25th Percentile £650 £628 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £889 £850 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +66.67% -19.23% -19.75%

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 17,859 11,513 11,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 34.97% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,838 7,095 7,573
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £770 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 555 606
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.13 £12.44
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.27
Median hourly rate £43.76 £29.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.34% -34.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £29.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +49.88% -34.82% +11.23%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -182 234 £750 - 142
London -126 220 £750 - 138
Work from Home -197 64 £750 - 37
UK excluding London -83 26 £875 +66.67% 12
Northern Ireland +9 8 £390 -27.44% 5
North of England -70 7 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 -
Scotland -13 4 £875 - 2
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -53 2 £875 +133.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 1

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 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.80%) MTS
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.23%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.01%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.61%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.61%) Summit
4 1 (0.40%) Actimize
4 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.40%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.51%) AWS
2 31 (12.45%) GCP
3 28 (11.24%) Azure
4 14 (5.62%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.02%) Serverless
6 8 (3.21%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.61%) Datadog
10 3 (1.20%) GitHub
10 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) Multicast
2 4 (1.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.21%) Metadata
4 7 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.41%) Power BI
5 6 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.61%) KDB
7 4 (1.61%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.61%) Tableau
8 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) Power Query
9 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.42%) JIRA
2 7 (2.81%) Git
2 7 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.01%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.01%) ERwin
3 5 (2.01%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (1.61%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.80%) JMeter
5 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.80%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) Mocha
5 2 (0.80%) MSTest
5 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.80%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) Storybook
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (67.07%) Front Office
2 162 (65.06%) Finance
3 111 (44.58%) Banking
4 74 (29.72%) Investment Banking
5 45 (18.07%) Social Skills
6 34 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.43%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.81%) Back Office
9 5 (2.01%) Law
10 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Marketing
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 119 (47.79%) Developer
2 63 (25.30%) Senior
3 59 (23.69%) Java Developer
4 50 (20.08%) Software Engineer
5 49 (19.68%) Senior Developer
6 48 (19.28%) React Developer
7 44 (17.67%) Analyst
8 43 (17.27%) Lead
9 42 (16.87%) Senior Java Developer
10 36 (14.46%) UI Developer
11 34 (13.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 31 (12.45%) Business Analyst
12 31 (12.45%) Senior React Developer
12 31 (12.45%) Senior UI Developer
13 29 (11.65%) Lead Developer
14 24 (9.64%) Lead Software Developer
14 24 (9.64%) Lead Software Engineer
15 15 (6.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 13 (5.22%) Data Analyst
16 13 (5.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (34.54%) React
2 80 (32.13%) Redux
3 44 (17.67%) Node.js
4 33 (13.25%) Kafka
5 25 (10.04%) GraphQL
6 15 (6.02%) .NET
7 11 (4.42%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (4.02%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.21%) Pandas
10 7 (2.81%) NumPy
10 7 (2.81%) OpenFin
11 6 (2.41%) Middleware
11 6 (2.41%) PySpark
11 6 (2.41%) Vue
12 5 (2.01%) REST
13 4 (1.61%) CSS
13 4 (1.61%) Django
13 4 (1.61%) Flask
13 4 (1.61%) RESTful
13 4 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (35.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 87 (34.94%) Equities
3 64 (25.70%) Derivative
4 34 (13.65%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.02%) Market Risk
6 13 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.82%) Reference Data
8 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.81%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.81%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.01%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.01%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.01%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.84%) Linux
2 21 (8.43%) Unix
3 4 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.73%) Agile
2 73 (29.32%) Electronic Trading
3 68 (27.31%) Low Latency
4 64 (25.70%) Software Engineering
5 51 (20.48%) Investment Management
6 44 (17.67%) Portfolio Management
7 41 (16.47%) Order Management
8 37 (14.86%) Analytics
9 36 (14.46%) Asset Management
9 36 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 36 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (10.84%) Validation
13 23 (9.24%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.84%) AI
14 22 (8.84%) DevOps
15 20 (8.03%) Fintech
15 20 (8.03%) Risk Management
16 19 (7.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.16%) Java
2 95 (38.15%) Python
3 85 (34.14%) JavaScript
3 85 (34.14%) TypeScript
4 56 (22.49%) SQL
5 49 (19.68%) C#
6 24 (9.64%) Go
7 12 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.21%) C++
9 6 (2.41%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.61%) Bash
10 4 (1.61%) C
11 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.80%) R
12 2 (0.80%) Tcl
12 2 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (8.43%) Degree
2 11 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.01%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.01%) PhD
4 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.40%) ACCA
6 1 (0.40%) CISA
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.41%) MiFID
3 5 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.80%) EMIR
4 2 (0.80%) GAAP
4 2 (0.80%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.41%) Docker
1 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.80%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (2.01%) Terraform
4 3 (1.20%) Ansible
4 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) Argo
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (6.43%) Murex
2 13 (5.22%) Charles River
3 10 (4.02%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.02%) Solace
4 9 (3.61%) Oracle
4 9 (3.61%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.21%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.41%) Sybase
7 4 (1.61%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.61%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.20%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.80%) Calypso
9 2 (0.80%) FIS
9 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.80%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.40%) Advent
10 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.40%) Databricks
10 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv