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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 236 182
Rank change year-on-year -178 -54 +92
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 259 372 567
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.14% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 3.29% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 324 535
10th Percentile £459 £538 £563
25th Percentile £650 £634 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +66.67% -19.23% +4.00%

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 17,434 11,307 13,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.09% 34.60% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,677 7,024 8,258
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £627 £649 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 530 872
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.87 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -13.71% +32.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.62 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.91 £36.05
% change year-on-year +37.78% -11.49% +2.99%

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 13 July 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 12 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 13 July 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 -179 247 £750 - 78
London -104 234 £750 - 75
Work from Home -187 77 £750 - 32
UK excluding London -85 21 £875 +66.67% 10
North of England -72 6 £875 -
Northern Ireland +2 5 £390 -27.44% 2
South West - 5 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 -
Scotland -15 3 £875 - 2
Midlands -48 2 £875 +133.33% 1
North West - 2 £875 -
West Midlands - 2 £875 -

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 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.39%) CMS
1 1 (0.39%) Confluence
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (6.56%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.32%) Summit
3 4 (1.54%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.16%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.77%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.39%) Actimize
6 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.39%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.73%) AWS
2 36 (13.90%) GCP
3 33 (12.74%) Azure
4 12 (4.63%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.86%) Serverless
6 7 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.32%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.16%) Datadog
9 3 (1.16%) GitHub
9 3 (1.16%) SaaS
10 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.77%) Collibra
10 2 (0.77%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.93%) Multicast
2 3 (1.16%) VPN
3 2 (0.77%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.39%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.25%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.47%) Metadata
5 6 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.32%) Power BI
5 6 (2.32%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.93%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.93%) KDB
6 5 (1.93%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.54%) Tableau
8 2 (0.77%) Power Query
9 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.39%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (3.86%) JIRA
2 7 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.93%) Git
4 4 (1.54%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.54%) ERwin
4 4 (1.54%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (1.16%) Mocha
5 3 (1.16%) MSTest
5 3 (1.16%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.77%) JMeter
6 2 (0.77%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 171 (66.02%) Finance
2 169 (65.25%) Front Office
3 111 (42.86%) Banking
4 74 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 52 (20.08%) Social Skills
6 36 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.18%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.32%) Back Office
9 5 (1.93%) Law
10 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) French Language
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 133 (51.35%) Developer
2 63 (24.32%) Java Developer
3 60 (23.17%) Software Engineer
4 59 (22.78%) Senior
5 52 (20.08%) Analyst
5 52 (20.08%) React Developer
6 50 (19.31%) Lead
7 46 (17.76%) Senior Developer
8 45 (17.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 42 (16.22%) Business Analyst
9 42 (16.22%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (14.67%) Lead Developer
11 37 (14.29%) UI Developer
12 32 (12.36%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (12.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (11.97%) Senior React Developer
13 31 (11.97%) Senior UI Developer
14 20 (7.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 16 (6.18%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (36.29%) React
2 90 (34.75%) Redux
3 56 (21.62%) Node.js
4 39 (15.06%) Kafka
5 33 (12.74%) GraphQL
6 19 (7.34%) .NET
7 13 (5.02%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.09%) Pandas
9 8 (3.09%) Vue
10 7 (2.70%) HTML
10 7 (2.70%) NumPy
10 7 (2.70%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.70%) XML
11 6 (2.32%) RESTful
12 5 (1.93%) CSS
12 5 (1.93%) Middleware
13 4 (1.54%) HTML5
13 4 (1.54%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 92 (35.52%) Equities
2 82 (31.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 64 (24.71%) Derivative
4 33 (12.74%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (5.79%) Market Risk
6 13 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.25%) Reference Data
8 9 (3.47%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (3.09%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.70%) Credit Risk
11 6 (2.32%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.93%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.54%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.16%) Credit Derivative
14 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.11%) Linux
2 18 (6.95%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (35.91%) Agile
2 79 (30.50%) Electronic Trading
3 71 (27.41%) Software Engineering
4 69 (26.64%) Low Latency
5 63 (24.32%) Investment Management
6 56 (21.62%) Portfolio Management
7 46 (17.76%) Order Management
8 42 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (14.29%) Asset Management
11 35 (13.51%) CI/CD
12 34 (13.13%) Analytics
13 29 (11.20%) Mentoring
14 27 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.04%) Risk Management
16 23 (8.88%) AI
16 23 (8.88%) Fintech
17 22 (8.49%) Validation
18 21 (8.11%) Business Analysis
19 20 (7.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (41.70%) Java
2 104 (40.15%) Python
3 96 (37.07%) JavaScript
4 95 (36.68%) TypeScript
5 54 (20.85%) SQL
6 45 (17.37%) C#
7 32 (12.36%) Go
8 10 (3.86%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.93%) C++
9 5 (1.93%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.77%) R
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.27%) Degree
2 12 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.54%) PhD
4 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.39%) ACCA
5 1 (0.39%) CFA
5 1 (0.39%) CISA
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.70%) QA
3 5 (1.93%) MiFID
4 4 (1.54%) IFRS
5 2 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (0.77%) EMIR
5 2 (0.77%) GAAP
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) ITGC
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.93%) Ansible
3 4 (1.54%) Terraform
4 3 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (6.95%) Murex
2 13 (5.02%) Charles River
2 13 (5.02%) Oracle
3 8 (3.09%) Bloomberg
3 8 (3.09%) Solace
4 6 (2.32%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.93%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.93%) Sybase
6 4 (1.54%) MarketAxess
6 4 (1.54%) Tradeweb
7 3 (1.16%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.77%) Reuters
8 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.77%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.39%) Advent
9 1 (0.39%) Calypso
9 1 (0.39%) Citrix
9 1 (0.39%) FactSet
9 1 (0.39%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.39%) SunGard