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 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 216 199
Rank change year-on-year -194 -17 +85
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 224 358 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.23% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 3.60% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 320 474
10th Percentile £511 £538 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £938 £938 £896
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +62.79% -17.31% +4.00%

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 15,809 9,941 12,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 34.12% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,769 6,300 8,331
10th Percentile £313 £292 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 769 405 923
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £20.45 £15.24
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +59.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.60 £82.40 £71.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.85 £32.05 £34.21
% change year-on-year +36.83% -6.31% +55.50%

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 1 June 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 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 1 June 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 -190 219 £750 - 76
London -114 213 £750 - 70
Work from Home -190 66 £750 - 19
UK excluding London -89 8 £875 +62.79% 16
North of England -72 3 £875 - 6
South West - 3 £875 - 1
North East - 2 £875 - 2
Northern Ireland 0 1 £475 -11.63% 3
Scotland -3 1 £875 - 2
North West - 1 £875 - 3

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 (0.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.36%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.68%) Summit
3 5 (2.23%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.89%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.45%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.59%) AWS
2 33 (14.73%) GCP
3 30 (13.39%) Azure
4 12 (5.36%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.68%) Serverless
6 5 (2.23%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.23%) SaaS
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.34%) GitHub
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.89%) Collibra
9 2 (0.89%) Datadog
9 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.89%) HTTP
1 2 (0.89%) Multicast
2 1 (0.45%) RTMP
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.02%) Metadata
5 6 (2.68%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.23%) KDB
6 5 (2.23%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.23%) Power BI
7 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.79%) Tableau
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.89%) Power Query
10 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.45%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.79%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.79%) ERwin
3 4 (1.79%) Git
3 4 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.89%) GitLab
4 2 (0.89%) JMeter
4 2 (0.89%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.89%) Maven
4 2 (0.89%) Mocha
4 2 (0.89%) MSTest
4 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.89%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 145 (64.73%) Finance
2 135 (60.27%) Front Office
3 82 (36.61%) Banking
4 54 (24.11%) Investment Banking
5 50 (22.32%) Social Skills
6 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.04%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.68%) Back Office
9 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Marketing
10 3 (1.34%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (52.23%) Developer
2 53 (23.66%) Software Engineer
3 49 (21.88%) Lead
4 47 (20.98%) Java Developer
5 45 (20.09%) Senior
6 44 (19.64%) Analyst
6 44 (19.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 43 (19.20%) Business Analyst
8 37 (16.52%) Lead Developer
9 36 (16.07%) React Developer
10 32 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
10 32 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 31 (13.84%) Senior Developer
12 28 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
13 22 (9.82%) UI Developer
14 21 (9.38%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 17 (7.59%) Python Developer
15 17 (7.59%) Senior React Developer
15 17 (7.59%) Senior UI Developer
16 16 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.70%) React
2 68 (30.36%) Redux
3 50 (22.32%) Node.js
4 38 (16.96%) Kafka
5 33 (14.73%) GraphQL
6 16 (7.14%) .NET
7 12 (5.36%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.57%) Vue
8 8 (3.57%) XML
9 7 (3.13%) Pandas
10 6 (2.68%) HTML
10 6 (2.68%) NumPy
11 5 (2.23%) REST
11 5 (2.23%) RESTful
12 4 (1.79%) HTML5
12 4 (1.79%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.79%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.34%) Java Concurrency
13 3 (1.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (34.38%) Equities
2 60 (26.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (24.55%) Derivative
4 18 (8.04%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.70%) Reference Data
6 14 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.91%) Market Risk
8 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.13%) Credit Risk
9 7 (3.13%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.23%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.23%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.34%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.34%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.34%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.59%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.48%) Agile
2 63 (28.13%) Electronic Trading
3 62 (27.68%) Software Engineering
4 53 (23.66%) Investment Management
5 52 (23.21%) Portfolio Management
6 45 (20.09%) Low Latency
7 38 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (16.07%) Order Management
9 34 (15.18%) Asset Management
9 34 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (12.95%) CI/CD
11 28 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 27 (12.05%) Analytics
13 25 (11.16%) AI
14 22 (9.82%) Fintech
14 22 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.93%) Risk Management
16 19 (8.48%) Machine Learning
16 19 (8.48%) Test Automation
17 17 (7.59%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (43.30%) Python
2 88 (39.29%) Java
3 74 (33.04%) JavaScript
4 72 (32.14%) TypeScript
5 50 (22.32%) SQL
6 32 (14.29%) Go
7 27 (12.05%) C#
8 8 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.23%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) C++
11 2 (0.89%) Bash
11 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.27%) Degree
2 9 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.34%) PhD
4 1 (0.45%) ACCA
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.45%) CFA
4 1 (0.45%) CISA
4 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.45%) PMP
4 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 5 (2.23%) MiFID
4 4 (1.79%) IFRS
5 2 (0.89%) EMIR
5 2 (0.89%) GAAP
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Basel III
6 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.45%) ITGC
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.89%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 6 (2.68%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.68%) Terraform
2 4 (1.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (7.59%) Murex
2 15 (6.70%) Oracle
3 10 (4.46%) Charles River
4 7 (3.13%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.13%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.68%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.23%) Solace
7 4 (1.79%) Sybase
8 3 (1.34%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.89%) Citrix
9 2 (0.89%) Reuters
9 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.45%) Advent
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks
10 1 (0.45%) FactSet
10 1 (0.45%) FIS
10 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.45%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.45%) TIBCO