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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 224 308
Rank change year-on-year -125 +84 -49
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 240 402 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.13% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 3.57% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 351 314
10th Percentile £513 £588 £554
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £720
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -0.69%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £640
% change year-on-year -7.14% -17.97% +6.67%
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 12,839 11,268 14,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 31.55% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,002 6,687 9,627
10th Percentile £275 £275 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 367 497
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.81 £16.67
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £56.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.19 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% -28.11% +53.25%

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 7 December 2025.

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 10 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 7 December 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
England -130 231 £750 - 110
London -74 228 £750 -0.03% 30
Work from Home -100 100 £750 -6.25% 49
UK excluding London -38 10 £488 -7.14% 100
Scotland +8 4 - - 5
Northern Ireland -8 3 £494 +64.58% 1
Yorkshire -39 2 - - 6
North of England -41 2 - - 14
East Midlands - 1 £375 - 6
Midlands - 1 £375 - 19

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 43 (17.92%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (11.67%) Apache
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
4 5 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.25%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.92%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.92%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.67%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.83%) BondVision
5 1 (0.42%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 80 (33.33%) AWS
2 43 (17.92%) dbt
3 33 (13.75%) Snowflake
4 27 (11.25%) Azure
5 22 (9.17%) GCP
6 10 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.92%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (2.50%) GitHub
8 6 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.08%) Serverless
10 4 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.83%) SaaS
13 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.42%) Lucidchart
13 1 (0.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) Firewall
1 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.83%) Multicast
2 2 (0.83%) tcpdump
2 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.92%) Amazon Athena
1 43 (17.92%) Apache Arrow
1 43 (17.92%) Apache Iceberg
1 43 (17.92%) Dremio
2 29 (12.08%) Data Lake
3 28 (11.67%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.50%) KDB
6 14 (5.83%) Kdb+
7 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.92%) Data Mart
8 7 (2.92%) Power BI
9 6 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.50%) Flink
10 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.25%) Power Query
12 2 (0.83%) Big Data
12 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.83%) JIRA
2 9 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.50%) Git
4 5 (2.08%) QUnit
5 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.83%) GitLab
6 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 183 (76.25%) Finance
2 142 (59.17%) Front Office
3 94 (39.17%) Banking
4 65 (27.08%) Social Skills
5 63 (26.25%) Investment Banking
6 30 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (10.42%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.17%) Back Office
9 5 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (37.50%) Developer
2 67 (27.92%) Software Engineer
3 53 (22.08%) Python Engineer
4 50 (20.83%) Senior
5 49 (20.42%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (18.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 43 (17.92%) AWS Software Engineer
8 38 (15.83%) Analyst
9 34 (14.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 34 (14.17%) Java Engineer
9 34 (14.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 32 (13.33%) Business Analyst
11 31 (12.92%) Python Developer
12 28 (11.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (11.25%) Senior Java Engineer
13 27 (11.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 20 (8.33%) Senior Developer
15 18 (7.50%) Java Developer
16 15 (6.25%) AWS Developer
17 13 (5.42%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.75%) NumPy
1 45 (18.75%) React
2 44 (18.33%) Pandas
2 44 (18.33%) SciPy
3 31 (12.92%) Node.js
4 30 (12.50%) Kafka
5 28 (11.67%) gRPC
5 28 (11.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 19 (7.92%) FIX Protocol
6 19 (7.92%) Redux
7 18 (7.50%) REST
8 17 (7.08%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.08%) Vue
9 16 (6.67%) .NET
10 12 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.75%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.92%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (2.08%) Dask
14 5 (2.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (45.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 100 (41.67%) Equities
3 79 (32.92%) Derivative
4 40 (16.67%) Hedge funds
5 28 (11.67%) Pricing Data
6 20 (8.33%) Algorithms
6 20 (8.33%) Product Ownership
7 17 (7.08%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.83%) Data Structures
9 11 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (3.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (3.33%) Reference Data
12 6 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.50%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.67%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.17%) Linux
2 13 (5.42%) Unix
3 4 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (45.42%) Agile
2 82 (34.17%) Software Engineering
3 76 (31.67%) Investment Management
4 62 (25.83%) Asset Management
5 44 (18.33%) Electronic Trading
6 39 (16.25%) Risk Management
7 38 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (13.75%) DevOps
8 33 (13.75%) Fintech
8 33 (13.75%) Order Management
9 32 (13.33%) Analytics
10 31 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (10.83%) Low Latency
12 24 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 21 (8.75%) Computer Science
14 19 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (6.67%) Multithreading
16 15 (6.25%) Data Modelling
16 15 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
16 15 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 130 (54.17%) Python
2 68 (28.33%) JavaScript
3 64 (26.67%) Java
3 64 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 59 (24.58%) SQL
5 19 (7.92%) C#
6 15 (6.25%) Go
7 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.33%) C++
9 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.83%) Bash
10 2 (0.83%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) Tcl
10 2 (0.83%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.83%) Degree
2 12 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.08%) PhD
5 2 (0.83%) CISM
5 2 (0.83%) CISSP
5 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) PMP
6 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) QA
2 11 (4.58%) MiFID
3 9 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.08%) EMIR
5 2 (0.83%) Basel III
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) NIST
5 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.42%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.50%) Ansible
3 6 (2.50%) Argo
3 6 (2.50%) Kibana
3 6 (2.50%) logstash
4 5 (2.08%) Grafana
5 4 (1.67%) Terraform
6 3 (1.25%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (8.75%) Murex
2 19 (7.92%) ION Trading
3 18 (7.50%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.17%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.33%) Solace
6 7 (2.92%) Databricks
6 7 (2.92%) Reuters
6 7 (2.92%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.50%) MarketAxess
8 5 (2.08%) Charles River
8 5 (2.08%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.08%) Oracle
8 5 (2.08%) Splunk
9 4 (1.67%) Portware
10 3 (1.25%) CQG
10 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.25%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.83%) Calypso
11 2 (0.83%) CyberArk