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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 260 177
Rank change year-on-year -204 -83 +110
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 212 322 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.99% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% 2.80% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 283 505
10th Percentile £410 £538 £550
25th Percentile £611 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £844 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £506 £650
% change year-on-year +72.84% -22.12% -19.75%

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 18,270 11,516 11,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 35.48% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,036 7,060 7,198
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £763 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 564 504
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -38.14% +10.64%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.15 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +45.20% -47.69% +25.08%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -209 195 £750 - 421
London -136 182 £725 -3.33% 418
Work from Home -207 33 £800 +6.67% 211
UK excluding London -88 27 £875 +72.84% 36
Northern Ireland +7 8 £390 -25.71% 8
North of England -68 7 £875 - 1
Scotland -25 6 £646 - 13
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South West - 4 £875 - 5
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -55 2 £875 +133.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 1

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 5 (2.36%) MTS
2 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (8.49%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.36%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.89%) Summit
4 2 (0.94%) MultiFonds
5 1 (0.47%) Actimize
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.47%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.32%) AWS
2 11 (5.19%) Azure
2 11 (5.19%) Snowflake
3 10 (4.72%) GCP
4 9 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.25%) Serverless
5 7 (3.30%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.83%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.89%) Datadog
9 3 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.42%) GitHub
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.83%) Multicast
2 4 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.77%) Metadata
3 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.83%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.83%) Power BI
5 5 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.36%) KDB
5 5 (2.36%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.89%) Tableau
7 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.13%) JIRA
2 9 (4.25%) Git
3 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.36%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.36%) ERwin
4 5 (2.36%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.89%) GitLab
6 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.94%) JMeter
6 2 (0.94%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.94%) Maven
6 2 (0.94%) Mocha
6 2 (0.94%) MSTest
6 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.94%) Storybook
6 2 (0.94%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.94%) Vite
7 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 136 (64.15%) Front Office
2 124 (58.49%) Finance
3 112 (52.83%) Banking
4 75 (35.38%) Investment Banking
5 44 (20.75%) Social Skills
6 30 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.30%) Back Office
9 5 (2.36%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.94%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) French Language
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (38.21%) Developer
2 65 (30.66%) Senior
3 50 (23.58%) Java Developer
4 49 (23.11%) Senior Developer
5 47 (22.17%) Analyst
6 40 (18.87%) Senior Java Developer
7 36 (16.98%) Business Analyst
8 35 (16.51%) React Developer
9 34 (16.04%) UI Developer
10 31 (14.62%) Senior React Developer
10 31 (14.62%) Senior UI Developer
11 16 (7.55%) Software Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) Lead
13 13 (6.13%) Data Analyst
14 12 (5.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 11 (5.19%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 10 (4.72%) Technical Business Analyst
17 9 (4.25%) C# Developer
18 8 (3.77%) Quantitative Developer
18 8 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.06%) React
2 46 (21.70%) Redux
3 15 (7.08%) .NET
4 13 (6.13%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.77%) Kafka
5 8 (3.77%) Node.js
5 8 (3.77%) OpenFin
6 6 (2.83%) Middleware
6 6 (2.83%) PySpark
7 5 (2.36%) NumPy
7 5 (2.36%) Pandas
7 5 (2.36%) REST
7 5 (2.36%) Terraform
8 4 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.89%) CSS
8 4 (1.89%) Django
8 4 (1.89%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.89%) Flask
8 4 (1.89%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 86 (40.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 76 (35.85%) Equities
3 54 (25.47%) Derivative
4 33 (15.57%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.60%) Market Risk
6 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.72%) Reference Data
8 8 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.77%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.77%) Virtual Team
9 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.30%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.83%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.36%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.42%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.15%) Linux
2 21 (9.91%) Unix
3 4 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.96%) Electronic Trading
2 68 (32.08%) Low Latency
3 46 (21.70%) Agile
4 36 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.51%) Analytics
6 33 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (14.62%) CI/CD
8 28 (13.21%) Software Engineering
9 27 (12.74%) Validation
10 26 (12.26%) Asset Management
11 22 (10.38%) AI
11 22 (10.38%) Investment Management
12 21 (9.91%) Business Analysis
12 21 (9.91%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (9.91%) Risk Management
13 18 (8.49%) Scrum
14 17 (8.02%) DevOps
15 16 (7.55%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (7.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 74 (34.91%) Java
2 59 (27.83%) Python
3 54 (25.47%) SQL
4 50 (23.58%) C#
5 49 (23.11%) TypeScript
6 48 (22.64%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.19%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.30%) C++
9 5 (2.36%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.36%) Tcl
10 4 (1.89%) Bash
11 3 (1.42%) C
11 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.94%) R
13 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (8.49%) Degree
2 8 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.36%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.36%) PhD
4 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.47%) CFA
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.83%) MiFID
2 6 (2.83%) QA
3 2 (0.94%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (0.94%) EMIR
3 2 (0.94%) GAAP
3 2 (0.94%) IFRS
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.94%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 13 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.30%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.42%) Ansible
3 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Argo
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (6.13%) Tradeweb
2 11 (5.19%) Charles River
2 11 (5.19%) MarketAxess
2 11 (5.19%) Solace
3 10 (4.72%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.25%) Murex
4 9 (4.25%) Oracle
4 9 (4.25%) Sybase
5 7 (3.30%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.89%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.42%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.42%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.94%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.94%) Calypso
8 2 (0.94%) FIS
8 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.94%) Temenos
9 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv