Fixed Income Contracts

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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 188 274
Rank change year-on-year -25 +86 +4
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 379 554 524
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.28% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.53% 4.23% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 525 465
10th Percentile £538 £563 £513
25th Percentile £638 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £838
90th Percentile - - £938
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +26.90%

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 10,751 13,103 18,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 30.19% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,673 8,321 12,606
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £676
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 926 580
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.81 £35.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +58.44% -16.60%
75th Percentile £57.55 £62.00 £60.64
90th Percentile £78.71 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.49% +57.78% +4.65%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 10 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 -38 367 £750 -6.25% 664
London -25 363 £750 -6.25% 617
Work from Home +19 270 £750 -6.25% 169
UK excluding London +55 12 £525 -19.23% 73
Northern Ireland - 5 £538 - 7
Scotland - 4 - - 8
North of England +8 2 - - 17
Yorkshire -2 2 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
Midlands - 1 £375 - 5

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (22.69%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (14.25%) Apache
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.26%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 44 (11.61%) Aladdin
2 19 (5.01%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.32%) ION Anvil
4 3 (0.79%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.53%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.26%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 167 (44.06%) AWS
2 104 (27.44%) GCP
3 85 (22.43%) dbt
4 53 (13.98%) Snowflake
5 43 (11.35%) Azure
6 8 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.32%) Dagster
7 5 (1.32%) Figma
8 2 (0.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.53%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.43%) Amazon Athena
1 85 (22.43%) Apache Arrow
1 85 (22.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 85 (22.43%) Dremio
2 71 (18.73%) Data Lake
3 65 (17.15%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (10.03%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.11%) KDB
7 6 (1.58%) Power BI
7 6 (1.58%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.58%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.32%) Data Mart
8 5 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.79%) Power Query
11 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.69%) JIRA
2 5 (1.32%) Git
2 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.26%) Gradle
5 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 332 (87.60%) Finance
2 309 (81.53%) Front Office
3 142 (37.47%) Banking
4 84 (22.16%) Investment Banking
5 50 (13.19%) Social Skills
6 28 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (6.60%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.90%) Back Office
9 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Legal
12 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (44.85%) Developer
2 163 (43.01%) Software Engineer
3 124 (32.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 86 (22.69%) Analyst
5 85 (22.43%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (22.43%) AWS Software Engineer
6 77 (20.32%) Business Analyst
7 63 (16.62%) Python Engineer
8 62 (16.36%) Python Software Engineer
9 60 (15.83%) Java Engineer
9 60 (15.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 51 (13.46%) Senior
11 50 (13.19%) AWS Developer
12 48 (12.66%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 44 (11.61%) Business Manager
13 44 (11.61%) Python Developer
14 43 (11.35%) React Developer
15 36 (9.50%) Java Developer
16 34 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (8.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (29.02%) React
2 80 (21.11%) Node.js
3 76 (20.05%) Redux
4 74 (19.53%) NumPy
5 73 (19.26%) Pandas
6 70 (18.47%) SciPy
7 59 (15.57%) AngularJS
8 56 (14.78%) Vue
9 38 (10.03%) gRPC
9 38 (10.03%) Protocol Buffers
10 21 (5.54%) PySpark
11 16 (4.22%) Kafka
12 14 (3.69%) .NET
13 13 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (3.17%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.64%) .NET Framework
16 9 (2.37%) Middleware
16 9 (2.37%) XML
17 7 (1.85%) Reactive Extensions
18 6 (1.58%) Akka.NET
Miscellaneous
1 180 (47.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 176 (46.44%) Equities
3 166 (43.80%) Derivative
4 158 (41.69%) Hedge funds
5 30 (7.92%) Pricing Data
6 27 (7.12%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.49%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.58%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.06%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.75%) Linux
2 10 (2.64%) Unix
3 6 (1.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (74.93%) Agile
2 223 (58.84%) Investment Management
3 198 (52.24%) Asset Management
4 172 (45.38%) Software Engineering
5 93 (24.54%) Fintech
6 61 (16.09%) Business Analysis
7 59 (15.57%) Analytics
8 57 (15.04%) Portfolio Management
9 53 (13.98%) Performance Attribution
10 51 (13.46%) Data Management
11 48 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (12.40%) Migration
12 47 (12.40%) Risk Management
13 44 (11.61%) Order Management
14 43 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (11.08%) TDD
16 40 (10.55%) Data Governance
16 40 (10.55%) Regulatory Compliance
16 40 (10.55%) Roadmaps
17 39 (10.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 227 (59.89%) Python
2 143 (37.73%) JavaScript
2 143 (37.73%) TypeScript
3 101 (26.65%) SQL
4 99 (26.12%) Java
5 22 (5.80%) C#
6 15 (3.96%) C++
7 14 (3.69%) Go
8 7 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.58%) F#
10 3 (0.79%) Ruby
11 2 (0.53%) Perl
11 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) Bash
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (6.07%) Degree
2 8 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.53%) CFA
4 1 (0.26%) CBAP
4 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.75%) MiFID
2 11 (2.90%) QA
3 4 (1.06%) EMIR
4 3 (0.79%) Basel III
5 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.26%) FINRA
System Software
1 8 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (2.64%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.06%) Kibana
4 3 (0.79%) Grafana
4 3 (0.79%) logstash
5 2 (0.53%) Ansible
5 2 (0.53%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (10.55%) BISAM
2 22 (5.80%) Calypso
2 22 (5.80%) Charles River
3 21 (5.54%) ION Trading
4 19 (5.01%) SimCorp
5 14 (3.69%) Murex
6 12 (3.17%) Bloomberg
7 10 (2.64%) Microsoft
7 10 (2.64%) Oracle
8 7 (1.85%) Reuters
9 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.32%) Splunk
9 5 (1.32%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.06%) Sybase
10 4 (1.06%) Tradeweb
11 3 (0.79%) IBM
11 3 (0.79%) Solace
12 2 (0.53%) Databricks
12 2 (0.53%) Red Hat