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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 292 192
Rank change year-on-year -188 -100 +89
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 205 291 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.89% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 2.46% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 245 444
10th Percentile £430 £530 £563
25th Percentile £644 £625 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £875
90th Percentile - £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +75.00% -23.08% +13.04%

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 18,863 11,816 11,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.52% 36.01% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,255 7,246 6,862
10th Percentile £320 £299 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £526
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.55% -4.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £670
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,299 615 417
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £15.57
25th Percentile £17.72 £18.82 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.13 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -40.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.14 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.71% -49.20% +13.09%

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 6 October 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 12 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 6 October 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 -193 188 £750 - 432
London -154 175 £725 -3.33% 418
Work from Home -190 31 £850 +13.33% 121
UK excluding London -92 26 £875 +75.00% 47
Northern Ireland +7 7 £390 -23.90% 13
North of England -67 7 £875 - 1
Scotland -22 6 £646 - 13
South West - 4 £875 - 7
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -40 2 £875 +133.33% 2
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 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 5 (2.44%) MTS
2 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.98%) Solana
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (8.78%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.44%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.98%) Actimize
3 2 (0.98%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.49%) Summit
4 1 (0.49%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.22%) AWS
2 15 (7.32%) Azure
3 11 (5.37%) GCP
4 10 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.90%) Serverless
6 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.95%) Datadog
8 4 (1.95%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.49%) GitHub
11 1 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) Multicast
2 4 (1.95%) VPN
3 1 (0.49%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.93%) KDB
3 6 (2.93%) Kdb+
4 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.44%) Metadata
5 4 (1.95%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.95%) Power BI
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.83%) JIRA
2 10 (4.88%) Git
3 6 (2.93%) GitLab
4 5 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.44%) ERwin
4 5 (2.44%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.44%) Storybook
4 5 (2.44%) Vite
5 4 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.46%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.46%) QUnit
7 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.98%) JMeter
7 2 (0.98%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.98%) Mocha
7 2 (0.98%) MSTest
7 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.98%) tSQLt
General
1 132 (64.39%) Front Office
2 131 (63.90%) Finance
3 111 (54.15%) Banking
4 72 (35.12%) Investment Banking
5 43 (20.98%) Social Skills
6 31 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.37%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.88%) Back Office
9 5 (2.44%) Law
10 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.98%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (37.07%) Developer
2 65 (31.71%) Senior
3 43 (20.98%) Senior Developer
4 39 (19.02%) Java Developer
5 36 (17.56%) Analyst
6 34 (16.59%) UI Developer
7 33 (16.10%) React Developer
7 33 (16.10%) Senior Java Developer
8 29 (14.15%) Business Analyst
8 29 (14.15%) Senior React Developer
8 29 (14.15%) Senior UI Developer
9 14 (6.83%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.85%) Lead
11 10 (4.88%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) C# Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (3.90%) Consultant
13 8 (3.90%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.90%) Quantitative Developer
14 7 (3.41%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.88%) React
2 46 (22.44%) Redux
3 15 (7.32%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (5.85%) .NET
5 11 (5.37%) OpenFin
6 10 (4.88%) PySpark
7 8 (3.90%) Kafka
7 8 (3.90%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.41%) REST
8 7 (3.41%) WebSockets
9 6 (2.93%) Django
9 6 (2.93%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.93%) Flask
9 6 (2.93%) Middleware
9 6 (2.93%) Node.js
9 6 (2.93%) NumPy
9 6 (2.93%) Pandas
9 6 (2.93%) Spring
10 5 (2.44%) CSS
10 5 (2.44%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (41.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (40.00%) Equities
3 57 (27.80%) Derivative
4 33 (16.10%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (7.32%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.37%) Reference Data
7 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.90%) Hedge funds
7 8 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.90%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.95%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.10%) Linux
2 18 (8.78%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.24%) Low Latency
2 58 (28.29%) Electronic Trading
3 49 (23.90%) Agile
4 40 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (19.02%) Analytics
6 37 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (15.12%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.15%) Validation
9 28 (13.66%) Software Engineering
10 26 (12.68%) Investment Management
11 24 (11.71%) Asset Management
12 23 (11.22%) AI
13 22 (10.73%) Risk Management
14 21 (10.24%) Scrum
15 20 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
16 19 (9.27%) Business Analysis
16 19 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (8.78%) Order Management
17 18 (8.78%) User Acceptance Testing
18 17 (8.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.22%) Java
2 54 (26.34%) Python
3 49 (23.90%) SQL
4 48 (23.41%) C#
4 48 (23.41%) TypeScript
5 42 (20.49%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.39%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.41%) C++
8 5 (2.44%) Tcl
9 4 (1.95%) Bash
9 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.98%) R
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (6.83%) Degree
2 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.44%) PhD
4 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.98%) CFA
5 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.98%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.41%) MiFID
3 4 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.98%) EMIR
4 2 (0.98%) GAAP
4 2 (0.98%) IFRS
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Argo
4 2 (0.98%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.34%) Charles River
1 13 (6.34%) Tradeweb
2 12 (5.85%) Bloomberg
3 11 (5.37%) MarketAxess
4 10 (4.88%) Murex
5 9 (4.39%) Solace
6 7 (3.41%) ION Trading
6 7 (3.41%) Sybase
7 6 (2.93%) Oracle
7 6 (2.93%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.46%) Databricks
9 2 (0.98%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.98%) Calypso
9 2 (0.98%) FIS
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.98%) Temenos
9 2 (0.98%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.49%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.49%) SGI