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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 214 254
Rank change year-on-year -193 +40 +44
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 216 377 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.28% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 3.80% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 339 385
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £834 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +8.00%

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 14,884 9,928 13,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.27% 33.74% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 6,370 8,559
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 382 907
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £22.33 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.20 £67.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.28 £26.00
% change year-on-year +47.17% +24.13% +18.18%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -194 213 £750 +3.45% 35
London -112 210 £750 +3.45% 34
Work from Home -169 82 £750 +3.45% 6
UK excluding London -100 4 £600 +14.29% 6
North of England -67 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 £475 +58.33%
South West - 1 £725 - 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 5 (2.31%) Confluence
2 4 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.78%) Summit
3 5 (2.31%) Loan IQ
4 4 (1.85%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.46%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.46%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.72%) AWS
2 29 (13.43%) GCP
3 28 (12.96%) Azure
4 11 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (5.09%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.70%) GitHub
5 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.85%) SaaS
8 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.39%) Serverless
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.93%) Collibra
9 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.46%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Multicast
2 1 (0.46%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.48%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.78%) Flink
4 6 (2.78%) Metadata
4 6 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.31%) KDB
5 5 (2.31%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.85%) Power BI
6 4 (1.85%) Tableau
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.93%) Power Query
8 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.46%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.63%) JIRA
2 8 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.24%) Git
4 3 (1.39%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) JUnit
6 1 (0.46%) Mocha
6 1 (0.46%) Mockito
6 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.46%) MSTest
6 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.46%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 143 (66.20%) Finance
2 123 (56.94%) Front Office
3 75 (34.72%) Banking
4 54 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 41 (18.98%) Investment Banking
6 39 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.72%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Back Office
10 3 (1.39%) Legal
10 3 (1.39%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 108 (50.00%) Developer
2 51 (23.61%) Software Engineer
3 45 (20.83%) Lead
4 44 (20.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 42 (19.44%) Analyst
6 41 (18.98%) Business Analyst
7 37 (17.13%) Lead Developer
8 32 (14.81%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (14.81%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (14.35%) Java Developer
10 30 (13.89%) Senior
11 27 (12.50%) Python Developer
12 21 (9.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 20 (9.26%) React Developer
13 20 (9.26%) Senior Developer
14 18 (8.33%) Python Engineer
15 16 (7.41%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 12 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.39%) React
2 54 (25.00%) Redux
3 50 (23.15%) Kafka
3 50 (23.15%) Node.js
4 32 (14.81%) GraphQL
5 14 (6.48%) .NET
6 11 (5.09%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.17%) REST
8 8 (3.70%) Vue
8 8 (3.70%) XML
9 7 (3.24%) Pandas
10 6 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.78%) NumPy
11 5 (2.31%) HTML
11 5 (2.31%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (2.31%) RESTful
12 4 (1.85%) Dask
12 4 (1.85%) HTML5
12 4 (1.85%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 64 (29.63%) Equities
2 55 (25.46%) Derivative
3 39 (18.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.56%) Reference Data
5 11 (5.09%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.17%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (3.24%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.24%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.78%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.85%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.85%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Linux
2 16 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.04%) Agile
2 59 (27.31%) Investment Management
2 59 (27.31%) Software Engineering
3 54 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (24.54%) Portfolio Management
5 44 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (16.67%) Order Management
7 34 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (14.81%) Asset Management
9 29 (13.43%) CI/CD
10 27 (12.50%) Analytics
11 26 (12.04%) Fintech
11 26 (12.04%) Low Latency
12 24 (11.11%) AI
12 24 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (10.19%) DevOps
14 21 (9.72%) Risk Management
15 19 (8.80%) Machine Learning
16 18 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (52.31%) Python
2 73 (33.80%) Java
3 60 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 60 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 58 (26.85%) SQL
5 32 (14.81%) Go
6 12 (5.56%) C#
7 7 (3.24%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.39%) C++
8 3 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.93%) Perl
9 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.65%) Degree
2 7 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.85%) PhD
5 2 (0.93%) CISM
5 2 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.46%) ACCA
6 1 (0.46%) CFA
6 1 (0.46%) CISA
6 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.46%) PMP
6 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) QA
2 12 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.39%) GDPR
3 3 (1.39%) IFRS
4 2 (0.93%) MiFID
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Basel III
5 1 (0.46%) EMIR
5 1 (0.46%) GAAP
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) ITGC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) GridGain
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.70%) Terraform
3 6 (2.78%) Argo
4 5 (2.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (6.94%) Murex
2 14 (6.48%) Oracle
3 13 (6.02%) Bloomberg
4 11 (5.09%) ION Trading
5 9 (4.17%) Charles River
6 7 (3.24%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.31%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.85%) MarketAxess
9 3 (1.39%) Databricks
9 3 (1.39%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.39%) Sybase
10 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.93%) Citrix
10 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.93%) Reuters
10 2 (0.93%) Solace
10 2 (0.93%) Splunk
10 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.46%) Advent
11 1 (0.46%) FIS