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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 201 215
Rank change year-on-year -217 +14 +87
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 211 400 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 1.36% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 4.01% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 359 441
10th Percentile £508 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £849 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 15,291 9,986 13,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.11% 33.96% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,521 6,373 8,407
10th Percentile £308 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.94% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 400 904
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £21.01 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +4.00% +38.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.50 £83.22 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £29.25
% change year-on-year +57.43% +8.58% +32.95%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -218 207 £750 - 41
London -124 205 £750 - 37
Work from Home -180 75 £750 - 15
UK excluding London -98 3 £600 +14.29% 9
Northern Ireland -3 1 £475 +11.76%
Yorkshire -52 1 - - 1
North of England -68 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £725 - 2

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 3 (1.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.84%) Summit
3 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (36.49%) AWS
2 31 (14.69%) GCP
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 12 (5.69%) Snowflake
5 9 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.84%) GitHub
7 5 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.37%) Serverless
8 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.90%) SaaS
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.95%) Collibra
10 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.64%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.79%) Metadata
5 6 (2.84%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.37%) KDB
6 5 (2.37%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) Power BI
7 4 (1.90%) Tableau
8 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.42%) Flink
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.95%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.95%) Power Query
10 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) JIRA
2 7 (3.32%) Git
2 7 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.42%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.42%) ERwin
3 3 (1.42%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.95%) Maven
4 2 (0.95%) Mocha
4 2 (0.95%) MSTest
4 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.95%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.47%) Mockito
5 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 137 (64.93%) Finance
2 117 (55.45%) Front Office
3 71 (33.65%) Banking
4 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
5 40 (18.96%) Investment Banking
6 33 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.95%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Back Office
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 107 (50.71%) Developer
2 52 (24.64%) Software Engineer
3 47 (22.27%) Lead
4 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 39 (18.48%) Analyst
5 39 (18.48%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.54%) Lead Developer
7 33 (15.64%) Java Developer
8 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 32 (15.17%) Senior
9 24 (11.37%) Python Developer
10 22 (10.43%) React Developer
11 21 (9.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 19 (9.00%) Senior Developer
13 16 (7.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 15 (7.11%) Python Engineer
15 14 (6.64%) Senior Java Developer
16 13 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
17 9 (4.27%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.96%) React
2 56 (26.54%) Redux
3 50 (23.70%) Node.js
4 44 (20.85%) Kafka
5 33 (15.64%) GraphQL
6 14 (6.64%) .NET
7 12 (5.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.79%) Vue
8 8 (3.79%) XML
9 7 (3.32%) Pandas
9 7 (3.32%) REST
10 6 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.84%) HTML
10 6 (2.84%) NumPy
10 6 (2.84%) RESTful
11 5 (2.37%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.90%) CSS
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.44%) Equities
2 55 (26.07%) Derivative
3 44 (20.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (7.11%) Reference Data
5 14 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.27%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.79%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.32%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.37%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.48%) Linux
2 15 (7.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.49%) Agile
2 59 (27.96%) Software Engineering
3 57 (27.01%) Investment Management
4 53 (25.12%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (25.12%) Portfolio Management
5 41 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (16.59%) Order Management
7 32 (15.17%) Asset Management
8 30 (14.22%) CI/CD
8 30 (14.22%) Low Latency
9 27 (12.80%) Analytics
10 26 (12.32%) Mentoring
11 25 (11.85%) AI
12 22 (10.43%) Fintech
13 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.00%) DevOps
14 19 (9.00%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.00%) Test Automation
15 18 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (49.29%) Python
2 75 (35.55%) Java
3 62 (29.38%) JavaScript
4 61 (28.91%) TypeScript
5 55 (26.07%) SQL
6 32 (15.17%) Go
7 12 (5.69%) C#
8 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.90%) C++
9 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.95%) Perl
10 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) R
11 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.95%) Degree
2 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) ACCA
3 1 (0.47%) CFA
3 1 (0.47%) CISA
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.47%) PhD
3 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.47%) PMP
3 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) MiFID
4 3 (1.42%) IFRS
5 2 (0.95%) EMIR
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.47%) GAAP
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) Terraform
3 5 (2.37%) Ansible
4 3 (1.42%) Argo
4 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Murex
2 14 (6.64%) Oracle
3 10 (4.74%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.27%) Charles River
5 8 (3.79%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.84%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.90%) Solace
7 4 (1.90%) Sybase
8 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.95%) Citrix
9 2 (0.95%) Databricks
9 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.95%) Reuters
9 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.95%) Splunk
9 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.95%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty