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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 223 317
Rank change year-on-year -146 +94 -56
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 223 390 320
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.14% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 3.57% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 341 295
10th Percentile £513 £588 £597
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £847
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 12,788 10,936 14,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.09% 31.90% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,978 6,532 9,372
10th Percentile £275 £271 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £661 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 650 347 493
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.25 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.99 £22.61 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.11 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £58.56 £64.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.33 £78.43 £77.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +52.68%

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 15 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 15 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 -145 214 £750 - 39
London -101 211 £750 - 33
Work from Home -98 88 £750 -6.25% 13
UK excluding London -44 10 £488 -7.14% 17
Scotland +3 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland -9 3 £494 +64.58%
Yorkshire -40 2 - -
North of England -43 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 37 (16.59%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (11.66%) Apache
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Aladdin
2 7 (3.14%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.69%) ION MarketView
4 4 (1.79%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.90%) BondVision
6 1 (0.45%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.45%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 69 (30.94%) AWS
2 37 (16.59%) dbt
3 31 (13.90%) Snowflake
4 24 (10.76%) Azure
5 13 (5.83%) GCP
6 10 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.14%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.69%) GitHub
9 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.24%) Serverless
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.90%) SaaS
14 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.45%) Lucidchart
14 1 (0.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.90%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) Multicast
2 2 (0.90%) tcpdump
2 2 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.59%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (16.59%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (16.59%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (16.59%) Dremio
2 27 (12.11%) Data Lake
3 26 (11.66%) Apache Ignite
4 18 (8.07%) KDB
5 16 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (6.28%) Kdb+
7 12 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.14%) Power BI
9 6 (2.69%) Data Mart
9 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.69%) Flink
10 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.35%) Power Query
12 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.90%) Tableau
13 1 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (5.83%) JIRA
2 9 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.69%) Git
4 5 (2.24%) QUnit
5 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.90%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 167 (74.89%) Finance
2 130 (58.30%) Front Office
3 84 (37.67%) Banking
4 64 (28.70%) Social Skills
5 59 (26.46%) Investment Banking
6 28 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (10.76%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.04%) Back Office
9 5 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Legal
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.35%) Law
12 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (35.87%) Developer
2 56 (25.11%) Software Engineer
3 49 (21.97%) Python Engineer
4 48 (21.52%) Senior
5 43 (19.28%) AWS Engineer
6 40 (17.94%) Python Software Engineer
7 37 (16.59%) AWS Software Engineer
8 35 (15.70%) Analyst
9 31 (13.90%) Business Analyst
10 30 (13.45%) Java Engineer
10 30 (13.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (13.45%) Python Developer
11 26 (11.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (11.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 25 (11.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (11.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 20 (8.97%) Senior Developer
14 15 (6.73%) Java Developer
15 13 (5.83%) Lead
16 11 (4.93%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.04%) NumPy
1 38 (17.04%) Pandas
2 37 (16.59%) SciPy
3 36 (16.14%) React
4 31 (13.90%) Kafka
5 26 (11.66%) gRPC
5 26 (11.66%) Protocol Buffers
6 24 (10.76%) Node.js
7 19 (8.52%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (8.07%) REST
9 15 (6.73%) .NET
10 14 (6.28%) Redux
11 12 (5.38%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.93%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.93%) Vue
13 8 (3.59%) .NET Framework
14 7 (3.14%) .NET Core
15 6 (2.69%) Dask
15 6 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (2.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (43.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 93 (41.70%) Equities
3 75 (33.63%) Derivative
4 36 (16.14%) Hedge funds
5 26 (11.66%) Pricing Data
6 20 (8.97%) Product Ownership
7 19 (8.52%) Algorithms
8 18 (8.07%) Cloud Native
9 14 (6.28%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (4.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (4.04%) Reference Data
13 7 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (2.24%) Market Risk
15 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (1.79%) Credit Risk
15 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
16 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
17 2 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.25%) Linux
2 12 (5.38%) Unix
3 2 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.70%) Agile
2 70 (31.39%) Software Engineering
3 64 (28.70%) Investment Management
4 50 (22.42%) Asset Management
5 40 (17.94%) Electronic Trading
6 39 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.70%) Risk Management
8 32 (14.35%) DevOps
9 30 (13.45%) Analytics
9 30 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.00%) Order Management
11 25 (11.21%) Fintech
11 25 (11.21%) Low Latency
12 23 (10.31%) CI/CD
13 22 (9.87%) Computer Science
14 20 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (7.17%) Quantitative Finance
16 15 (6.73%) Multithreading
16 15 (6.73%) Portfolio Management
16 15 (6.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 120 (53.81%) Python
2 59 (26.46%) Java
3 58 (26.01%) SQL
4 57 (25.56%) JavaScript
5 53 (23.77%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.62%) C#
7 15 (6.73%) Go
8 10 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.14%) C++
10 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Bash
11 2 (0.90%) Perl
11 2 (0.90%) Tcl
11 2 (0.90%) VBA
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (12.11%) Degree
2 12 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.93%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.69%) PhD
5 2 (0.90%) CISM
5 2 (0.90%) CISSP
5 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.45%) PMP
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.93%) MiFID
1 11 (4.93%) QA
2 8 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.24%) EMIR
4 2 (0.90%) Basel III
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (7.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.38%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.69%) Argo
3 6 (2.69%) Kibana
3 6 (2.69%) logstash
4 5 (2.24%) Ansible
4 5 (2.24%) Grafana
5 4 (1.79%) Terraform
6 2 (0.90%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (8.07%) ION Trading
2 17 (7.62%) Murex
3 16 (7.17%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.04%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.59%) Solace
6 7 (3.14%) Databricks
7 6 (2.69%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.69%) TIBCO
8 5 (2.24%) Charles River
8 5 (2.24%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.24%) Reuters
8 5 (2.24%) Splunk
9 4 (1.79%) Portware
10 3 (1.35%) CQG
10 3 (1.35%) Oracle
10 3 (1.35%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.45%) FIS