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 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 225 300
Rank change year-on-year -179 +75 +7
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 212 341 326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.13% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 3.37% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 299 303
10th Percentile £509 £588 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +1.52%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £838
90th Percentile £886 £938 £973
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.70% -5.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 14,219 10,106 13,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.39% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,946 6,224 8,554
10th Percentile £285 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 341 835
10th Percentile £15.38 £18.13 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% +33.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £31.76 £30.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +5.87% +36.36%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -166 208 £750 +3.45% 35
London -102 205 £750 +3.45% 35
Work from Home -134 87 £750 +3.45% 13
UK excluding London -95 5 £613 +16.67% 10
Northern Ireland -7 2 £500 +66.67% 1
North of England -59 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 -

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 6 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.89%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.83%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.36%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.94%) Summit
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.79%) AWS
2 31 (14.62%) GCP
3 27 (12.74%) Azure
4 13 (6.13%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (2.83%) dbt
6 6 (2.83%) GitHub
6 6 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.83%) SaaS
7 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.94%) Serverless
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
1 1 (0.47%) Multicast
1 1 (0.47%) RTMP
1 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.19%) KDB
2 11 (5.19%) Kdb+
3 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (2.83%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (2.83%) Dremio
4 6 (2.83%) Flink
5 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (0.94%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.94%) Metadata
7 2 (0.94%) Power BI
7 2 (0.94%) Power Query
7 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.19%) JIRA
2 7 (3.30%) Git
3 6 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.42%) QUnit
4 3 (1.42%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.94%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) Mockito
6 1 (0.47%) MSTest
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 144 (67.92%) Finance
2 127 (59.91%) Front Office
3 65 (30.66%) Banking
4 54 (25.47%) Social Skills
5 40 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (16.98%) Investment Banking
7 17 (8.02%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.30%) Back Office
9 5 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.36%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 104 (49.06%) Developer
2 54 (25.47%) Software Engineer
3 46 (21.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 41 (19.34%) Lead
5 37 (17.45%) Business Analyst
6 36 (16.98%) Lead Developer
7 33 (15.57%) Analyst
8 32 (15.09%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (15.09%) Lead Software Engineer
9 28 (13.21%) Python Developer
10 24 (11.32%) Senior
11 22 (10.38%) Python Engineer
12 21 (9.91%) Java Developer
12 21 (9.91%) React Developer
13 13 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (6.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 13 (6.13%) Java Engineer
13 13 (6.13%) Quantitative Developer
13 13 (6.13%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.42%) React
2 50 (23.58%) Node.js
3 49 (23.11%) Kafka
3 49 (23.11%) Redux
4 32 (15.09%) GraphQL
5 13 (6.13%) REST
6 12 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.66%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (5.66%) Pandas
7 11 (5.19%) NumPy
8 10 (4.72%) Vue
9 9 (4.25%) .NET
10 7 (3.30%) HTML
10 7 (3.30%) XML
11 6 (2.83%) Dask
11 6 (2.83%) SciPy
12 5 (2.36%) CSS
12 5 (2.36%) Reactive Extensions
12 5 (2.36%) RESTful
13 4 (1.89%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 75 (35.38%) Equities
2 62 (29.25%) Derivative
3 51 (24.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.02%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.13%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.19%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.19%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (4.72%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.89%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.89%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.89%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.74%) Linux
2 11 (5.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.62%) Agile
2 65 (30.66%) Investment Management
3 64 (30.19%) Software Engineering
4 52 (24.53%) Portfolio Management
5 45 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.81%) Electronic Trading
7 37 (17.45%) Order Management
8 36 (16.98%) Asset Management
9 30 (14.15%) Fintech
10 29 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (12.74%) Risk Management
12 25 (11.79%) Analytics
12 25 (11.79%) CI/CD
13 22 (10.38%) Mentoring
13 22 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.91%) Low Latency
15 20 (9.43%) DevOps
16 18 (8.49%) AI
16 18 (8.49%) Line Management
17 17 (8.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.77%) Python
2 62 (29.25%) Java
3 61 (28.77%) JavaScript
3 61 (28.77%) TypeScript
4 54 (25.47%) SQL
5 32 (15.09%) Go
6 7 (3.30%) C#
7 5 (2.36%) C++
7 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.42%) VBA
10 2 (0.94%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.47%) Tcl
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (10.85%) Degree
2 10 (4.72%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.83%) PhD
4 2 (0.94%) CISM
4 2 (0.94%) CISSP
4 2 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) ACCA
5 1 (0.47%) CFA
5 1 (0.47%) CISA
5 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.08%) QA
2 9 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.42%) IFRS
4 2 (0.94%) MiFID
4 2 (0.94%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) EMIR
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.83%) Argo
2 6 (2.83%) Terraform
3 5 (2.36%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.89%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Kibana
5 2 (0.94%) logstash
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.02%) ION Trading
1 17 (8.02%) Murex
2 14 (6.60%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.72%) Charles River
4 7 (3.30%) Oracle
5 6 (2.83%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.36%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.89%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.42%) Databricks
8 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.42%) Solace
8 3 (1.42%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.94%) Citrix
9 2 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.94%) FIS
9 2 (0.94%) Reuters
9 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.94%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv