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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 226 311
Rank change year-on-year -188 +85 -23
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 171 358 308
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.14% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 3.50% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 316 284
10th Percentile £501 £588 £600
25th Percentile £613 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £846 £888 £844
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 12,933 10,226 13,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.14% 32.42% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,176 6,066 8,877
10th Percentile £278 £263 £255
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -3.59%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 308 721
10th Percentile £14.86 £19.03 £14.14
25th Percentile £18.34 £23.60 £17.64
Median hourly rate £28.05 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% - +58.51%
75th Percentile £61.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.20 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -8.45% +76.27%

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 25 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 25 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 -188 164 £750 +3.45% 91
London -120 162 £750 +3.45% 26
Work from Home -147 55 £750 +3.45% 34
UK excluding London -70 6 £494 -5.95% 76
Northern Ireland -5 3 £494 +64.58% 2
North of England -56 2 - - 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
Scotland +11 1 - - 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 18 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.02%) Apache
3 6 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.51%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.75%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.58%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.58%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.58%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.58%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.58%) Summit
4 1 (0.58%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.05%) AWS
2 19 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 18 (10.53%) dbt
4 10 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.68%) Azure
5 8 (4.68%) GCP
6 6 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.51%) GitHub
6 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.51%) SaaS
7 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.17%) Serverless
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Multicast
1 1 (0.58%) RTMP
1 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.58%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (10.53%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (10.53%) Apache Iceberg
1 18 (10.53%) Dremio
2 15 (8.77%) KDB
2 15 (8.77%) Kdb+
3 13 (7.60%) Data Lake
4 12 (7.02%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.51%) Flink
9 3 (1.75%) Power BI
10 2 (1.17%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.58%) Big Data
11 1 (0.58%) Metadata
11 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.43%) JIRA
2 7 (4.09%) Git
3 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.92%) QUnit
5 2 (1.17%) GitLab
5 2 (1.17%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Mockito
6 1 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 113 (66.08%) Finance
2 94 (54.97%) Front Office
3 68 (39.77%) Banking
4 57 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 43 (25.15%) Investment Banking
6 34 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (11.11%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.09%) Back Office
9 5 (2.92%) Legal
10 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (34.50%) Developer
2 34 (19.88%) Business Analyst
3 32 (18.71%) Senior
4 31 (18.13%) Analyst
5 28 (16.37%) Python Engineer
6 25 (14.62%) Python Developer
7 24 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (12.28%) Software Engineer
9 19 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 18 (10.53%) AWS Software Engineer
11 14 (8.19%) Senior Developer
12 13 (7.60%) Java Engineer
13 12 (7.02%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (7.02%) Quantitative Developer
14 11 (6.43%) Project Manager
14 11 (6.43%) Senior Java Engineer
14 11 (6.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 11 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (6.43%) Technical Business Analyst
15 10 (5.85%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.28%) NumPy
1 21 (12.28%) Pandas
2 18 (10.53%) SciPy
3 16 (9.36%) Kafka
4 13 (7.60%) React
4 13 (7.60%) REST
5 12 (7.02%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (7.02%) gRPC
5 12 (7.02%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (4.68%) .NET
6 8 (4.68%) HTML
7 7 (4.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.51%) Dask
8 6 (3.51%) HTML5
8 6 (3.51%) Node.js
8 6 (3.51%) Vue
9 5 (2.92%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.92%) XML
10 4 (2.34%) CSS
10 4 (2.34%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 69 (40.35%) Equities
2 60 (35.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (30.41%) Derivative
4 19 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 19 (11.11%) Hedge funds
5 13 (7.60%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.60%) Data Structures
6 12 (7.02%) Pricing Data
7 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
7 11 (6.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.26%) Reference Data
9 8 (4.68%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.34%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.75%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
2 12 (7.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.32%) Agile
2 42 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.64%) Electronic Trading
4 31 (18.13%) Risk Management
5 30 (17.54%) Investment Management
6 29 (16.96%) Analytics
6 29 (16.96%) Asset Management
6 29 (16.96%) Software Engineering
7 26 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (12.87%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.53%) AI
9 18 (10.53%) DevOps
9 18 (10.53%) Fintech
9 18 (10.53%) Low Latency
10 16 (9.36%) SDLC
11 15 (8.77%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (8.19%) Computer Science
12 14 (8.19%) Mathematics
12 14 (8.19%) Quantitative Finance
13 13 (7.60%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.95%) Python
2 48 (28.07%) SQL
3 33 (19.30%) Java
4 26 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.09%) C#
7 5 (2.92%) C++
7 5 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.17%) Perl
8 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.17%) Tcl
8 2 (1.17%) VBA
9 1 (0.58%) Bash
9 1 (0.58%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (13.45%) Degree
2 10 (5.85%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.51%) PhD
4 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.17%) CISM
5 2 (1.17%) CISSP
5 2 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.34%) MiFID
4 3 (1.75%) GDPR
4 3 (1.75%) IFRS
5 2 (1.17%) EMIR
5 2 (1.17%) NIST
5 2 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) GAAP
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.51%) Argo
2 6 (3.51%) Terraform
3 5 (2.92%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.17%) Grafana
4 2 (1.17%) Kibana
4 2 (1.17%) logstash
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (9.94%) ION Trading
2 10 (5.85%) Bloomberg
3 9 (5.26%) Murex
4 7 (4.09%) Charles River
5 6 (3.51%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.92%) Oracle
6 5 (2.92%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 4 (2.34%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.75%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.75%) Solace
8 3 (1.75%) Splunk
8 3 (1.75%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.17%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.17%) FIS
9 2 (1.17%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.58%) Portware
10 1 (0.58%) Refinitiv