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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 220 316
Rank change year-on-year -126 +96 -58
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 246 416 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.15% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 3.66% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 366 318
10th Percentile £514 £588 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £712
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.36% -1.79%
75th Percentile £850 £885 £848
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 12,765 11,364 14,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 31.34% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,924 6,702 9,750
10th Percentile £275 £285 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 376 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.80 £16.87
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -20.16% +25.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -16.92% -29.62% +59.79%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -124 236 £750 -6.25% 22
London -67 233 £750 -6.25% 22
Work from Home -92 107 £750 -6.25% 8
UK excluding London -13 11 £488 -7.14% 14
Scotland +9 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland -5 4 £494 +64.58%
Yorkshire -30 2 - -
North of England -47 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -

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 47 (19.11%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (12.20%) Apache
3 7 (2.85%) Confluence
4 5 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.85%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.85%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.63%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.81%) BondVision
5 1 (0.41%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 86 (34.96%) AWS
2 47 (19.11%) dbt
3 35 (14.23%) Snowflake
4 29 (11.79%) Azure
5 27 (10.98%) GCP
6 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.25%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.44%) GitHub
9 6 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.03%) Serverless
11 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.81%) SaaS
14 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) Multicast
3 2 (0.81%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.11%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (19.11%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (19.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (19.11%) Dremio
2 31 (12.60%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.20%) Apache Ignite
4 26 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.91%) KDB
6 13 (5.28%) Kdb+
7 12 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.25%) Power BI
9 7 (2.85%) Data Mart
10 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.44%) Flink
11 5 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.22%) Power Query
13 2 (0.81%) Big Data
13 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.69%) JIRA
2 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.44%) Git
4 5 (2.03%) QUnit
5 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.81%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 192 (78.05%) Finance
2 149 (60.57%) Front Office
3 97 (39.43%) Banking
4 65 (26.42%) Investment Banking
5 64 (26.02%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (10.57%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.07%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 3 (1.22%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (38.21%) Developer
2 74 (30.08%) Software Engineer
3 56 (22.76%) Python Engineer
4 53 (21.54%) AWS Engineer
5 51 (20.73%) Senior
6 47 (19.11%) AWS Software Engineer
6 47 (19.11%) Python Software Engineer
7 39 (15.85%) Analyst
7 39 (15.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 37 (15.04%) Java Engineer
8 37 (15.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 31 (12.60%) Python Developer
10 30 (12.20%) Business Analyst
10 30 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (11.79%) Senior Java Engineer
11 29 (11.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 19 (7.72%) Senior Developer
13 18 (7.32%) Java Developer
14 17 (6.91%) AWS Developer
15 13 (5.28%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.33%) React
2 49 (19.92%) NumPy
3 48 (19.51%) Pandas
3 48 (19.51%) SciPy
4 35 (14.23%) Node.js
5 30 (12.20%) gRPC
5 30 (12.20%) Protocol Buffers
6 29 (11.79%) Kafka
7 22 (8.94%) Redux
8 21 (8.54%) FIX Protocol
9 20 (8.13%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.13%) Vue
10 18 (7.32%) REST
11 17 (6.91%) .NET
12 12 (4.88%) GraphQL
13 10 (4.07%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.85%) .NET Core
15 6 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (2.03%) Dapper ORM
16 5 (2.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 117 (47.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 104 (42.28%) Equities
3 83 (33.74%) Derivative
4 43 (17.48%) Hedge funds
5 30 (12.20%) Pricing Data
6 21 (8.54%) Algorithms
7 20 (8.13%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.91%) Cloud Native
9 15 (6.10%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (3.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (2.85%) Reference Data
13 6 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (2.44%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.63%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
15 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 2 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.82%) Linux
2 13 (5.28%) Unix
3 5 (2.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (48.37%) Agile
2 92 (37.40%) Software Engineering
3 85 (34.55%) Investment Management
4 69 (28.05%) Asset Management
5 43 (17.48%) Electronic Trading
6 41 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 40 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.04%) Fintech
9 36 (14.63%) Order Management
10 34 (13.82%) DevOps
11 32 (13.01%) Analytics
12 31 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
13 25 (10.16%) Low Latency
14 23 (9.35%) Computer Science
15 19 (7.72%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (6.91%) Performance Attribution
16 17 (6.91%) Scrum
17 16 (6.50%) Portfolio Management
18 15 (6.10%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 137 (55.69%) Python
2 75 (30.49%) JavaScript
3 71 (28.86%) TypeScript
4 68 (27.64%) Java
5 60 (24.39%) SQL
6 22 (8.94%) C#
7 15 (6.10%) Go
8 11 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.07%) C++
10 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.81%) Bash
11 2 (0.81%) Perl
11 2 (0.81%) Tcl
11 2 (0.81%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Degree
2 12 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.07%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.03%) PhD
5 2 (0.81%) CISM
5 2 (0.81%) CISSP
5 2 (0.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.41%) PMP
6 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.88%) MiFID
2 11 (4.47%) QA
3 8 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.03%) EMIR
5 2 (0.81%) Basel III
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) NIST
5 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (6.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.28%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.44%) Ansible
3 6 (2.44%) Argo
3 6 (2.44%) Kibana
3 6 (2.44%) logstash
4 5 (2.03%) Grafana
5 3 (1.22%) BladeLogic
5 3 (1.22%) Terraform
6 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.41%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (8.54%) Murex
2 19 (7.72%) Bloomberg
3 18 (7.32%) ION Trading
4 11 (4.47%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.25%) Solace
6 7 (2.85%) Databricks
6 7 (2.85%) Reuters
6 7 (2.85%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.44%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.44%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle
8 5 (2.03%) Charles River
8 5 (2.03%) Splunk
9 4 (1.63%) Portware
10 3 (1.22%) CQG
10 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.22%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.81%) Calypso
11 2 (0.81%) CyberArk