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 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 202 232
Rank change year-on-year -213 +30 +74
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 210 396 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.35% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 3.97% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 355 420
10th Percentile £524 £550 £550
25th Percentile £647 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £828 £875 £850
90th Percentile £853 £938 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 15,122 9,965 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 34.02% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,417 6,364 8,440
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 400 905
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.23 £21.01 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.75 £82.57 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.08 £28.25
% change year-on-year +60.88% +10.02% +28.41%

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 4 May 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 8 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 4 May 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 -206 206 £750 - 44
London -124 204 £750 - 39
Work from Home -174 78 £750 +3.45% 16
UK excluding London -104 3 £600 +14.29% 9
Northern Ireland -5 1 £475 +11.76%
North of England - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £725 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 3 (1.43%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.86%) Summit
3 5 (2.38%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.19%) AWS
2 31 (14.76%) GCP
3 29 (13.81%) Azure
4 11 (5.24%) Snowflake
5 9 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.86%) GitHub
6 6 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.90%) SaaS
8 3 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.43%) Serverless
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.95%) Collibra
9 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.48%) RTMP
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.81%) Metadata
3 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.38%) KDB
5 5 (2.38%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.90%) Flink
6 4 (1.90%) Power BI
6 4 (1.90%) Tableau
7 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.95%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.95%) Power Query
9 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.48%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 7 (3.33%) JIRA
2 6 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.95%) ERwin
3 2 (0.95%) Maven
3 2 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.48%) Mocha
4 1 (0.48%) Mockito
4 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.48%) MSTest
4 1 (0.48%) NUnit
4 1 (0.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
General
1 137 (65.24%) Finance
2 115 (54.76%) Front Office
3 71 (33.81%) Banking
4 51 (24.29%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.57%) Investment Banking
6 35 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (9.52%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Back Office
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 106 (50.48%) Developer
2 50 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 46 (21.90%) Lead
4 44 (20.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 40 (19.05%) Analyst
5 40 (19.05%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.62%) Lead Developer
7 32 (15.24%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (15.24%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (14.76%) Java Developer
8 31 (14.76%) Senior
9 26 (12.38%) Python Developer
10 21 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 20 (9.52%) React Developer
11 20 (9.52%) Senior Developer
12 16 (7.62%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 16 (7.62%) Python Engineer
13 13 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.14%) React
2 54 (25.71%) Redux
3 50 (23.81%) Node.js
4 47 (22.38%) Kafka
5 32 (15.24%) GraphQL
6 13 (6.19%) .NET
7 11 (5.24%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.81%) Vue
8 8 (3.81%) XML
9 7 (3.33%) Pandas
10 6 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.86%) NumPy
10 6 (2.86%) REST
11 5 (2.38%) HTML
11 5 (2.38%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (2.38%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.43%) CSS
13 3 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (29.05%) Equities
2 55 (26.19%) Derivative
3 42 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (6.67%) Reference Data
5 13 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.29%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.81%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.33%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.38%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.90%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.52%) Linux
2 15 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.19%) Agile
2 58 (27.62%) Investment Management
3 57 (27.14%) Software Engineering
4 53 (25.24%) Portfolio Management
5 52 (24.76%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (16.67%) Order Management
8 34 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (15.24%) Asset Management
10 29 (13.81%) Analytics
11 28 (13.33%) Low Latency
12 26 (12.38%) CI/CD
13 24 (11.43%) AI
13 24 (11.43%) Fintech
13 24 (11.43%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (9.52%) Risk Management
16 19 (9.05%) DevOps
17 17 (8.10%) Line Management
17 17 (8.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (51.43%) Python
2 70 (33.33%) Java
3 59 (28.10%) JavaScript
3 59 (28.10%) TypeScript
4 55 (26.19%) SQL
5 32 (15.24%) Go
6 10 (4.76%) C#
7 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.90%) C++
9 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.95%) Perl
10 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (9.52%) Degree
2 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) CISM
3 2 (0.95%) CISSP
3 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.95%) PhD
4 1 (0.48%) ACCA
4 1 (0.48%) CFA
4 1 (0.48%) CISA
4 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.24%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) MiFID
4 3 (1.43%) GDPR
4 3 (1.43%) IFRS
5 2 (0.95%) EMIR
5 2 (0.95%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.48%) GAAP
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (5.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.38%) Ansible
4 4 (1.90%) Argo
5 3 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 17 (8.10%) Murex
2 14 (6.67%) Oracle
3 11 (5.24%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.81%) Charles River
4 8 (3.81%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.90%) Solace
7 3 (1.43%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.43%) Sybase
8 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.95%) Citrix
8 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.95%) Reuters
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Splunk
8 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.95%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv