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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 219 192
Rank change year-on-year -184 -27 +81
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 243 357 520
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.21% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 3.51% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 318 496
10th Percentile £513 £538 £550
25th Percentile £666 £638 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £798
Median % change year-on-year - -5.96% +10.00%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £875
90th Percentile £938 £938 £888
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 16,316 10,181 13,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 34.37% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,004 6,390 8,269
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 442 940
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.09 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -7.04% +57.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.03 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +59.09%

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 16 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 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 16 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 -177 236 £750 - 57
London -115 224 £750 - 54
Work from Home -176 69 £750 - 13
UK excluding London -99 15 £875 +62.79% 7
North of England -67 6 £875 - 3
South West - 5 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
Scotland -9 2 £875 - 1
North West - 2 £875 - 2
Northern Ireland -2 1 £475 -11.63% 1
Midlands - 1 £875 -
West Midlands - 1 £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 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.47%) Summit
3 5 (2.06%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.82%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.28%) AWS
2 35 (14.40%) GCP
3 32 (13.17%) Azure
4 12 (4.94%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.29%) Serverless
6 6 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.06%) SaaS
8 4 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.23%) Datadog
9 3 (1.23%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) Collibra
10 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.82%) HTTP
1 2 (0.82%) Multicast
2 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.41%) RTMP
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.53%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.70%) Metadata
5 6 (2.47%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.06%) KDB
6 5 (2.06%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.06%) Power BI
7 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.65%) Tableau
8 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.82%) Power Query
10 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (3.70%) JIRA
2 7 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.65%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.65%) ERwin
3 4 (1.65%) Git
3 4 (1.65%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Mocha
4 3 (1.23%) MSTest
4 3 (1.23%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.82%) JMeter
5 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.82%) Maven
5 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Mockito
6 1 (0.41%) NUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 162 (66.67%) Finance
2 155 (63.79%) Front Office
3 102 (41.98%) Banking
4 71 (29.22%) Investment Banking
5 50 (20.58%) Social Skills
6 33 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.00%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.47%) Back Office
9 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Law
9 4 (1.65%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (54.32%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) Java Developer
3 60 (24.69%) Senior
4 56 (23.05%) Software Engineer
5 51 (20.99%) React Developer
6 50 (20.58%) Lead
7 46 (18.93%) Analyst
8 44 (18.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 44 (18.11%) Senior Developer
9 43 (17.70%) Business Analyst
10 42 (17.28%) Senior Java Developer
11 37 (15.23%) Lead Developer
12 36 (14.81%) UI Developer
13 32 (13.17%) Lead Software Developer
13 32 (13.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (12.76%) Senior React Developer
14 31 (12.76%) Senior UI Developer
15 21 (8.64%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 16 (6.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
17 15 (6.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (36.63%) React
2 85 (34.98%) Redux
3 52 (21.40%) Node.js
4 39 (16.05%) Kafka
5 33 (13.58%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.41%) .NET
7 13 (5.35%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.29%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.29%) Vue
8 8 (3.29%) XML
9 7 (2.88%) HTML
9 7 (2.88%) Pandas
10 6 (2.47%) NumPy
10 6 (2.47%) RESTful
11 4 (1.65%) CSS
11 4 (1.65%) HTML5
11 4 (1.65%) Reactive Extensions
11 4 (1.65%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.65%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.23%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (37.04%) Equities
2 78 (32.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (23.87%) Derivative
4 33 (13.58%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.76%) Reference Data
7 11 (4.53%) Market Risk
8 9 (3.70%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.88%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.06%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.06%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.82%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.58%) Linux
2 14 (5.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.33%) Agile
2 77 (31.69%) Electronic Trading
3 66 (27.16%) Software Engineering
4 61 (25.10%) Low Latency
5 56 (23.05%) Investment Management
6 52 (21.40%) Portfolio Management
7 40 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.64%) Order Management
9 37 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (14.40%) Asset Management
11 34 (13.99%) CI/CD
12 30 (12.35%) Mentoring
13 27 (11.11%) Analytics
14 26 (10.70%) AI
15 24 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (9.47%) Fintech
17 20 (8.23%) Machine Learning
17 20 (8.23%) Risk Management
17 20 (8.23%) Test Automation
18 19 (7.82%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.62%) Java
2 98 (40.33%) Python
3 92 (37.86%) JavaScript
4 90 (37.04%) TypeScript
5 50 (20.58%) SQL
6 43 (17.70%) C#
7 32 (13.17%) Go
8 8 (3.29%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.65%) C++
11 3 (1.23%) Bash
11 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.88%) Degree
2 11 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.23%) PhD
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ACCA
5 1 (0.41%) CFA
5 1 (0.41%) CISA
5 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.41%) PMP
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 5 (2.06%) IFRS
3 5 (2.06%) MiFID
4 3 (1.23%) GAAP
5 2 (0.82%) EMIR
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.41%) ITGC
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Terraform
3 5 (2.06%) Ansible
4 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.41%) Murex
2 15 (6.17%) Oracle
3 10 (4.12%) Charles River
4 8 (3.29%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.47%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.06%) Solace
6 5 (2.06%) Sybase
7 3 (1.23%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.82%) Citrix
8 2 (0.82%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.82%) Reuters
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.82%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.82%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.41%) Databricks
9 1 (0.41%) FactSet
9 1 (0.41%) FIS
9 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.41%) PagerDuty