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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 207 300
Rank change year-on-year -140 +93 -41
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 253 413 362
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.12% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 3.60% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 364 332
10th Percentile £513 £588 £550
25th Percentile £623 £638 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £845
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £563 £640
% change year-on-year -12.22% -12.11% +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 12,786 11,474 14,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 31.06% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,907 6,764 9,953
10th Percentile £275 £285 £275
25th Percentile £406 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £668
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 683 387 497
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.99 £16.81
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -21.35% +34.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.26% -24.21% +74.26%

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 23 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 23 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 -126 242 £750 -6.25% 30
London -60 239 £750 -6.25% 24
Work from Home -81 112 £750 -6.25% 9
UK excluding London -30 12 £494 -12.22% 11
Northern Ireland -5 5 £500 +66.67%
Scotland -3 4 - - 2
Yorkshire -30 2 - -
North of England -37 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 51 (20.16%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (12.65%) Apache
3 8 (3.16%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (5.93%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.77%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.77%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.58%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.79%) BondVision
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.97%) AWS
2 51 (20.16%) dbt
3 37 (14.62%) Snowflake
4 32 (12.65%) GCP
5 30 (11.86%) Azure
6 11 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.16%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.98%) GitHub
9 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.98%) Serverless
10 4 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.79%) SaaS
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.58%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) Multicast
3 2 (0.79%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.16%) Amazon Athena
1 51 (20.16%) Apache Arrow
1 51 (20.16%) Apache Iceberg
1 51 (20.16%) Dremio
2 33 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 32 (12.65%) Apache Ignite
4 29 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.11%) KDB
6 13 (5.14%) Kdb+
7 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.16%) Power BI
9 7 (2.77%) Data Mart
9 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.98%) Flink
12 4 (1.58%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.19%) Power Query
14 2 (0.79%) Big Data
14 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.93%) JIRA
2 8 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.98%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) QUnit
4 4 (1.58%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 2 (0.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 199 (78.66%) Finance
2 157 (62.06%) Front Office
3 100 (39.53%) Banking
4 68 (26.88%) Investment Banking
5 64 (25.30%) Social Skills
6 35 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (10.67%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.95%) Back Office
9 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (39.92%) Developer
2 82 (32.41%) Software Engineer
3 58 (22.92%) Python Engineer
4 56 (22.13%) AWS Engineer
5 53 (20.95%) Senior
6 51 (20.16%) AWS Software Engineer
7 50 (19.76%) Python Software Engineer
8 44 (17.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 40 (15.81%) Analyst
9 40 (15.81%) Java Engineer
9 40 (15.81%) Java Software Engineer
10 33 (13.04%) Python Developer
11 32 (12.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (12.25%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (12.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 29 (11.46%) Business Analyst
14 20 (7.91%) Java Developer
15 19 (7.51%) AWS Developer
15 19 (7.51%) Senior Developer
16 15 (5.93%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (21.74%) React
2 54 (21.34%) NumPy
3 53 (20.95%) Pandas
4 52 (20.55%) SciPy
5 39 (15.42%) Node.js
6 32 (12.65%) gRPC
6 32 (12.65%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (10.67%) Kafka
8 25 (9.88%) Redux
9 24 (9.49%) FIX Protocol
10 23 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 23 (9.09%) Vue
11 17 (6.72%) .NET
11 17 (6.72%) REST
12 12 (4.74%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.95%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.77%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.77%) Middleware
15 6 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (1.98%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 126 (49.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 109 (43.08%) Equities
3 86 (33.99%) Derivative
4 46 (18.18%) Hedge funds
5 32 (12.65%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.70%) Algorithms
7 20 (7.91%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.72%) Cloud Native
9 16 (6.32%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.77%) Reference Data
11 7 (2.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.37%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.37%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.58%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.44%) Linux
2 13 (5.14%) Unix
3 6 (2.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (50.59%) Agile
2 100 (39.53%) Software Engineering
3 90 (35.57%) Investment Management
4 75 (29.64%) Asset Management
5 42 (16.60%) Electronic Trading
5 42 (16.60%) Fintech
6 41 (16.21%) Risk Management
7 40 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.02%) Order Management
9 32 (12.65%) Analytics
10 31 (12.25%) DevOps
11 30 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (9.88%) Computer Science
12 25 (9.88%) Low Latency
13 23 (9.09%) CI/CD
14 19 (7.51%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (7.51%) Performance Attribution
14 19 (7.51%) Scrum
15 16 (6.32%) Mathematics
15 16 (6.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 143 (56.52%) Python
2 82 (32.41%) JavaScript
3 78 (30.83%) TypeScript
4 75 (29.64%) Java
5 60 (23.72%) SQL
6 25 (9.88%) C#
7 15 (5.93%) Go
8 12 (4.74%) C++
8 12 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.19%) Bash
9 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.79%) Tcl
10 2 (0.79%) VBA
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.28%) Degree
2 13 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.95%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.98%) PhD
5 2 (0.79%) CISM
5 2 (0.79%) CISSP
5 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.14%) MiFID
2 10 (3.95%) QA
3 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.98%) EMIR
5 3 (1.19%) Basel III
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (5.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.14%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.37%) Kibana
3 6 (2.37%) logstash
4 5 (1.98%) Ansible
4 5 (1.98%) Argo
4 5 (1.98%) Grafana
5 3 (1.19%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.79%) Terraform
7 1 (0.40%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (8.30%) Murex
2 17 (6.72%) Bloomberg
2 17 (6.72%) ION Trading
3 10 (3.95%) Tradeweb
4 8 (3.16%) Solace
5 7 (2.77%) Databricks
5 7 (2.77%) Reuters
5 7 (2.77%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.37%) Oracle
7 5 (1.98%) Charles River
7 5 (1.98%) MarketAxess
8 4 (1.58%) Portware
8 4 (1.58%) Splunk
9 3 (1.19%) CQG
9 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.19%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.79%) Calypso
10 2 (0.79%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics