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 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 220 299
Rank change year-on-year -193 +79 -19
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 174 355 308
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.13% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% 3.52% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 313 285
10th Percentile £489 £588 £600
25th Percentile £575 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £828 £888 £850
90th Percentile £975 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.95% -8.70% -4.17%
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 12,770 10,086 13,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.26% 32.25% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,073 5,954 8,762
10th Percentile £278 £263 £258
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.23% -1.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 313 645
10th Percentile £14.43 £18.66 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.63 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% - +55.56%
75th Percentile £61.19 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.84 £80.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.52 £32.50 £35.83
% change year-on-year -15.32% -9.28% +79.13%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -179 167 £750 +7.14% 35
London -117 165 £750 +5.26% 22
Work from Home -138 56 £750 +3.45% 12
UK excluding London -52 7 £494 -5.95% 15
Northern Ireland -3 3 £494 +64.58%
Scotland +9 2 - -
North of England -54 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -

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 20 (11.49%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (8.05%) Apache
3 6 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.45%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.72%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.15%) BondVision
5 1 (0.57%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.57%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.57%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.57%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.57%) Summit
5 1 (0.57%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.41%) AWS
2 21 (12.07%) Snowflake
3 20 (11.49%) dbt
4 10 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.60%) Azure
5 8 (4.60%) GCP
6 6 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.45%) GitHub
6 6 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.45%) SaaS
7 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.15%) Serverless
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
1 1 (0.57%) Multicast
1 1 (0.57%) RTMP
1 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.57%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.49%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (11.49%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (11.49%) Apache Iceberg
1 20 (11.49%) Dremio
2 15 (8.62%) Data Lake
3 14 (8.05%) Apache Ignite
3 14 (8.05%) KDB
3 14 (8.05%) Kdb+
4 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.45%) Flink
5 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.72%) Power BI
7 2 (1.15%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.57%) Big Data
8 1 (0.57%) Metadata
8 1 (0.57%) Power Query
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) JIRA
2 6 (3.45%) Git
3 5 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.87%) QUnit
4 2 (1.15%) GitLab
4 2 (1.15%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.57%) NUnit
5 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 119 (68.39%) Finance
2 94 (54.02%) Front Office
3 67 (38.51%) Banking
4 58 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 42 (24.14%) Investment Banking
6 35 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (11.49%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.02%) Back Office
9 5 (2.87%) Legal
10 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Marketing
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.57%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (32.76%) Developer
2 35 (20.11%) Analyst
2 35 (20.11%) Senior
3 33 (18.97%) Business Analyst
4 30 (17.24%) Python Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (14.37%) Python Developer
7 23 (13.22%) Software Engineer
8 21 (12.07%) Python Software Engineer
9 20 (11.49%) AWS Software Engineer
10 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Java Engineer
11 14 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (6.90%) Quantitative Developer
14 11 (6.32%) Project Manager
14 11 (6.32%) Technical Business Analyst
15 10 (5.75%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.22%) NumPy
1 23 (13.22%) Pandas
2 20 (11.49%) SciPy
3 16 (9.20%) Kafka
4 14 (8.05%) gRPC
4 14 (8.05%) Protocol Buffers
5 13 (7.47%) React
5 13 (7.47%) REST
6 11 (6.32%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (4.02%) .NET
7 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.02%) HTML
8 6 (3.45%) Dask
8 6 (3.45%) Node.js
8 6 (3.45%) Vue
9 5 (2.87%) HTML5
9 5 (2.87%) XML
10 4 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.30%) CSS
11 3 (1.72%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 72 (41.38%) Equities
2 63 (36.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (32.76%) Derivative
4 21 (12.07%) Hedge funds
5 18 (10.34%) Algorithms
6 14 (8.05%) Pricing Data
7 13 (7.47%) Cloud Native
7 13 (7.47%) Data Structures
8 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
9 11 (6.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 9 (5.17%) Reference Data
11 7 (4.02%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (2.30%) Credit Risk
13 4 (2.30%) Market Risk
14 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
15 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.52%) Linux
2 12 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.59%) Agile
2 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.69%) Electronic Trading
4 32 (18.39%) Investment Management
5 31 (17.82%) Asset Management
5 31 (17.82%) Software Engineering
6 30 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 28 (16.09%) Analytics
8 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (11.49%) CI/CD
10 18 (10.34%) DevOps
10 18 (10.34%) Fintech
11 17 (9.77%) AI
11 17 (9.77%) Low Latency
11 17 (9.77%) SDLC
12 15 (8.62%) Data Analysis
12 15 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (8.05%) Computer Science
13 14 (8.05%) Mathematics
13 14 (8.05%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.28%) Python
2 49 (28.16%) SQL
3 34 (19.54%) Java
4 28 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 24 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.02%) C#
7 5 (2.87%) C++
7 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.15%) Perl
8 2 (1.15%) Tcl
8 2 (1.15%) VBA
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (12.64%) Degree
2 10 (5.75%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.45%) PhD
4 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.15%) CISM
5 2 (1.15%) CISSP
5 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.15%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMP
6 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) QA
2 7 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.30%) MiFID
4 3 (1.72%) GDPR
4 3 (1.72%) IFRS
5 2 (1.15%) EMIR
5 2 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) GAAP
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.45%) Argo
2 6 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (3.45%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Ansible
4 2 (1.15%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Kibana
4 2 (1.15%) logstash
5 1 (0.57%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (10.34%) ION Trading
2 14 (8.05%) Bloomberg
3 12 (6.90%) Murex
4 8 (4.60%) Tradeweb
5 7 (4.02%) Charles River
6 6 (3.45%) MarketAxess
6 6 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.30%) Databricks
7 4 (2.30%) Oracle
7 4 (2.30%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.72%) Reuters
8 3 (1.72%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.72%) Solace
8 3 (1.72%) Splunk
9 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.15%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.15%) FIS
9 2 (1.15%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv