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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 234 177
Rank change year-on-year -189 -57 +99
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 257 366 559
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.12% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.22% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 317 531
10th Percentile £450 £538 £550
25th Percentile £650 £625 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +66.67% -19.23% -19.75%

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 17,606 11,349 12,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.31% 34.65% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,771 7,000 7,905
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
75th Percentile £634 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 549 692
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.13 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.87 £16.70
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.49 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -27.71% -9.49%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -174 244 £750 - 68
London -112 231 £750 - 66
Work from Home -186 72 £750 - 15
UK excluding London -83 23 £875 +66.67% 6
Northern Ireland +2 7 £390 -27.44% 1
North of England -69 6 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Scotland -16 3 £875 -
Midlands -50 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 -

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 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.39%) CMS
2 1 (0.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.00%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.95%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.56%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.56%) Summit
4 1 (0.39%) Actimize
4 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.39%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.74%) AWS
2 36 (14.01%) GCP
3 32 (12.45%) Azure
4 14 (5.45%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.89%) Serverless
6 7 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.17%) Datadog
9 3 (1.17%) GitHub
10 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.78%) Collibra
10 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) Multicast
2 4 (1.56%) VPN
3 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.11%) Metadata
4 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.95%) Power BI
6 4 (1.56%) KDB
6 4 (1.56%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.56%) Tableau
7 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.39%) Power Query
8 1 (0.39%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.67%) JIRA
2 6 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.95%) ER Studio
3 5 (1.95%) ERwin
3 5 (1.95%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (1.17%) Mocha
4 3 (1.17%) MSTest
4 3 (1.17%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.78%) JMeter
5 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.78%) Maven
5 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.39%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 173 (67.32%) Front Office
2 170 (66.15%) Finance
3 106 (41.25%) Banking
4 70 (27.24%) Investment Banking
5 46 (17.90%) Social Skills
6 36 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.84%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.33%) Back Office
9 5 (1.95%) Law
10 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) French Language
12 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 129 (50.19%) Developer
2 62 (24.12%) Java Developer
2 62 (24.12%) Senior
2 62 (24.12%) Software Engineer
3 52 (20.23%) Lead
3 52 (20.23%) React Developer
4 49 (19.07%) Senior Developer
5 45 (17.51%) Analyst
5 45 (17.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 43 (16.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 38 (14.79%) Lead Developer
8 37 (14.40%) UI Developer
9 36 (14.01%) Business Analyst
10 32 (12.45%) Lead Software Developer
10 32 (12.45%) Lead Software Engineer
11 31 (12.06%) Senior React Developer
11 31 (12.06%) Senior UI Developer
12 18 (7.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 15 (5.84%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 14 (5.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (37.74%) React
2 90 (35.02%) Redux
3 56 (21.79%) Node.js
4 39 (15.18%) Kafka
5 33 (12.84%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.00%) .NET
7 13 (5.06%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.28%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.11%) Vue
10 7 (2.72%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.72%) Pandas
11 6 (2.33%) HTML
11 6 (2.33%) Middleware
11 6 (2.33%) NumPy
11 6 (2.33%) RESTful
12 5 (1.95%) CSS
12 5 (1.95%) PySpark
12 5 (1.95%) REST
13 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (35.41%) Equities
2 84 (32.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 61 (23.74%) Derivative
4 33 (12.84%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (5.84%) Market Risk
6 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.67%) Reference Data
7 10 (3.89%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.72%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.33%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.95%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.95%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.17%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.34%) Linux
2 19 (7.39%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.74%) Agile
2 75 (29.18%) Electronic Trading
2 75 (29.18%) Software Engineering
3 68 (26.46%) Low Latency
4 63 (24.51%) Investment Management
5 56 (21.79%) Portfolio Management
6 48 (18.68%) Order Management
7 40 (15.56%) Asset Management
7 40 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.01%) Analytics
8 36 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 28 (10.89%) Mentoring
10 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (9.73%) Validation
12 23 (8.95%) Fintech
13 22 (8.56%) AI
14 21 (8.17%) Business Analysis
14 21 (8.17%) Risk Management
14 21 (8.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (41.63%) Java
2 104 (40.47%) Python
3 97 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 96 (37.35%) TypeScript
5 54 (21.01%) SQL
6 47 (18.29%) C#
7 32 (12.45%) Go
8 12 (4.67%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.72%) C++
10 6 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.17%) Bash
11 3 (1.17%) C
11 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) R
13 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (8.56%) Degree
2 12 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.56%) PhD
4 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.39%) ACCA
5 1 (0.39%) CFA
5 1 (0.39%) CISA
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.72%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) MiFID
4 2 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.78%) EMIR
4 2 (0.78%) GAAP
4 2 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) ITGC
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.95%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.95%) Ansible
3 4 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.56%) Terraform
4 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.00%) Murex
2 13 (5.06%) Charles River
3 9 (3.50%) Oracle
3 9 (3.50%) Solace
4 8 (3.11%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.33%) MarketAxess
5 6 (2.33%) Tradeweb
6 5 (1.95%) Sybase
7 4 (1.56%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.17%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.78%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.39%) Advent
10 1 (0.39%) Calypso
10 1 (0.39%) FactSet
10 1 (0.39%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.39%) Reuters
10 1 (0.39%) SGI
10 1 (0.39%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.39%) SunGard