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 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 224 307
Rank change year-on-year -199 +83 -23
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 170 353 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.14% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 3.49% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 311 286
10th Percentile £500 £588 £598
25th Percentile £609 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £840 £888 £844
90th Percentile £977 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.95% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,004 10,104 13,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.16% 32.50% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,208 5,982 8,903
10th Percentile £278 £263 £255
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -2.00% -3.15%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 621 307 740
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £23.60 £17.38
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +1.14% +53.90%
75th Percentile £61.57 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +69.04%

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 27 January 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 8 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 27 January 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 -187 163 £750 +3.45% 37
London -118 161 £750 +3.45% 27
Work from Home -153 53 £750 +3.45% 10
UK excluding London -65 6 £494 -5.95% 16
Northern Ireland -6 3 £494 +64.58%
North of England -54 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Scotland +9 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 16 (9.41%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (6.47%) Apache
3 6 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.53%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.76%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.18%) Summit
5 1 (0.59%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.59%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.59%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.59%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.59%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.00%) AWS
2 18 (10.59%) Snowflake
3 16 (9.41%) dbt
4 10 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.71%) Azure
6 7 (4.12%) GCP
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.53%) SaaS
8 3 (1.76%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.18%) Serverless
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Multicast
1 1 (0.59%) RTMP
1 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.41%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (9.41%) Apache Arrow
1 16 (9.41%) Apache Iceberg
1 16 (9.41%) Dremio
2 15 (8.82%) KDB
2 15 (8.82%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.06%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.47%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.53%) Flink
8 3 (1.76%) Power BI
9 2 (1.18%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.18%) Metadata
9 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.59%) Big Data
10 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) JIRA
2 7 (4.12%) Git
3 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.94%) QUnit
5 2 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) Mockito
6 1 (0.59%) NUnit
6 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (65.29%) Finance
2 92 (54.12%) Front Office
3 68 (40.00%) Banking
4 58 (34.12%) Social Skills
5 43 (25.29%) Investment Banking
6 35 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (11.18%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.12%) Back Office
9 5 (2.94%) Legal
10 4 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (34.12%) Developer
2 35 (20.59%) Business Analyst
3 32 (18.82%) Analyst
4 31 (18.24%) Senior
5 26 (15.29%) Python Engineer
6 24 (14.12%) Python Developer
7 22 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (11.18%) Software Engineer
9 17 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 16 (9.41%) AWS Software Engineer
11 14 (8.24%) Senior Developer
12 12 (7.06%) Java Engineer
12 12 (7.06%) Quantitative Developer
13 11 (6.47%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (6.47%) Project Manager
13 11 (6.47%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (5.88%) Java Developer
14 10 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (5.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 10 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.18%) NumPy
1 19 (11.18%) Pandas
2 16 (9.41%) Kafka
2 16 (9.41%) SciPy
3 13 (7.65%) REST
4 12 (7.06%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (7.06%) React
5 11 (6.47%) gRPC
5 11 (6.47%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (4.71%) .NET
6 8 (4.71%) HTML
7 6 (3.53%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.53%) Dask
7 6 (3.53%) HTML5
7 6 (3.53%) XML
8 5 (2.94%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.94%) Node.js
8 5 (2.94%) Vue
9 4 (2.35%) CSS
9 4 (2.35%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 67 (39.41%) Equities
2 58 (34.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (30.59%) Derivative
4 19 (11.18%) Algorithms
5 18 (10.59%) Hedge funds
6 13 (7.65%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.65%) Data Structures
7 11 (6.47%) Pricing Data
7 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
7 11 (6.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.29%) Reference Data
9 8 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.94%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.35%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.88%) Linux
2 13 (7.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.29%) Agile
1 43 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (21.76%) Electronic Trading
3 31 (18.24%) Risk Management
4 29 (17.06%) Analytics
5 28 (16.47%) Investment Management
6 27 (15.88%) Asset Management
6 27 (15.88%) Software Engineering
7 26 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (12.94%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.59%) AI
9 18 (10.59%) DevOps
9 18 (10.59%) Low Latency
10 17 (10.00%) Fintech
10 17 (10.00%) SDLC
11 15 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (8.24%) Computer Science
12 14 (8.24%) Mathematics
12 14 (8.24%) Quantitative Finance
13 13 (7.65%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.06%) Python
2 49 (28.82%) SQL
3 32 (18.82%) Java
4 24 (14.12%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.12%) C#
7 5 (2.94%) C++
7 5 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.18%) Perl
8 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.18%) Tcl
8 2 (1.18%) VBA
9 1 (0.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (13.53%) Degree
2 10 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.53%) PhD
4 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.18%) CISM
5 2 (1.18%) CISSP
5 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) PMP
6 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.35%) MiFID
4 3 (1.76%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) IFRS
5 2 (1.18%) EMIR
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.59%) Basel III
6 1 (0.59%) GAAP
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.53%) Argo
2 6 (3.53%) Terraform
3 5 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Kibana
4 2 (1.18%) logstash
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 10 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 9 (5.29%) Murex
4 7 (4.12%) Charles River
5 6 (3.53%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.53%) Oracle
6 5 (2.94%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.35%) Databricks
7 4 (2.35%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.76%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.76%) Solace
8 3 (1.76%) Splunk
8 3 (1.76%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.18%) FIS
9 2 (1.18%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.59%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.59%) Portware
10 1 (0.59%) Refinitiv