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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 255 170
Rank change year-on-year -193 -85 +93
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 225 336 559
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 1.03% 1.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 2.91% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 294 526
10th Percentile £421 £538 £550
25th Percentile £613 £625 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £934 £850 £888
90th Percentile £938 £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 18,013 11,540 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 35.25% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,894 7,092 7,463
10th Percentile £322 £300 £300
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 577 570
10th Percentile £14.76 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £42.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +2.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £69.45
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -38.78% +7.91%

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 August 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 25 August 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 -197 208 £750 - 29
London -126 194 £750 - 29
Work from Home -211 44 £750 - 7
UK excluding London -82 28 £875 +72.84% 11
Northern Ireland +5 8 £390 -25.71%
North of England -60 7 £875 -
Scotland -11 6 £646 - 1
South West - 5 £875 - 6
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -61 2 £875 +133.33%
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 4 (1.78%) MTS
2 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.44%) CMS
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (8.89%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.22%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.78%) Summit
4 2 (0.89%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.89%) MultiFonds
5 1 (0.44%) Actimize
5 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.44%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.44%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.89%) AWS
2 16 (7.11%) Azure
2 16 (7.11%) GCP
3 13 (5.78%) Snowflake
4 10 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (4.44%) Serverless
5 8 (3.56%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.78%) Datadog
9 3 (1.33%) GitHub
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.44%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Multicast
2 4 (1.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.56%) Metadata
3 7 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.11%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.67%) Power BI
5 5 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.78%) KDB
6 4 (1.78%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.78%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.78%) Tableau
7 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (5.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.56%) Git
3 7 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.22%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.22%) ERwin
4 5 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.78%) GitLab
6 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.89%) JMeter
6 2 (0.89%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.89%) Maven
6 2 (0.89%) Mocha
6 2 (0.89%) MSTest
6 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.89%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.44%) Storybook
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 148 (65.78%) Front Office
2 136 (60.44%) Finance
3 113 (50.22%) Banking
4 76 (33.78%) Investment Banking
5 43 (19.11%) Social Skills
6 32 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.11%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.11%) Back Office
9 5 (2.22%) Law
10 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 2 (0.89%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) French Language
11 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 93 (41.33%) Developer
2 63 (28.00%) Senior
3 54 (24.00%) Java Developer
4 49 (21.78%) Senior Developer
5 46 (20.44%) Analyst
6 42 (18.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 40 (17.78%) React Developer
8 35 (15.56%) Business Analyst
9 34 (15.11%) UI Developer
10 31 (13.78%) Senior React Developer
10 31 (13.78%) Senior UI Developer
11 28 (12.44%) Software Engineer
12 24 (10.67%) Lead
13 14 (6.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 13 (5.78%) Data Analyst
14 13 (5.78%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 12 (5.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 11 (4.89%) Lead Developer
17 10 (4.44%) Technical Business Analyst
18 8 (3.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.00%) React
2 57 (25.33%) Redux
3 20 (8.89%) Node.js
4 16 (7.11%) .NET
5 15 (6.67%) Kafka
6 12 (5.33%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (4.00%) GraphQL
8 7 (3.11%) OpenFin
9 6 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.67%) Middleware
9 6 (2.67%) PySpark
10 5 (2.22%) NumPy
10 5 (2.22%) Pandas
10 5 (2.22%) REST
10 5 (2.22%) Terraform
11 4 (1.78%) Django
11 4 (1.78%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.78%) Flask
11 4 (1.78%) RESTful
11 4 (1.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (38.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (36.44%) Equities
3 59 (26.22%) Derivative
4 34 (15.11%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.22%) Market Risk
6 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.89%) Reference Data
8 9 (4.00%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.56%) Hedge funds
9 8 (3.56%) Onboarding
10 7 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (3.11%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.67%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.22%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.22%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.78%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.78%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.44%) Linux
2 21 (9.33%) Unix
3 4 (1.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.44%) Electronic Trading
2 68 (30.22%) Low Latency
3 61 (27.11%) Agile
4 40 (17.78%) Software Engineering
5 37 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (15.56%) Analytics
6 35 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 32 (14.22%) Investment Management
8 30 (13.33%) Asset Management
8 30 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (12.00%) Validation
10 25 (11.11%) Order Management
11 23 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (9.78%) AI
12 22 (9.78%) Portfolio Management
13 20 (8.89%) Business Analysis
13 20 (8.89%) Risk Management
13 20 (8.89%) Scrum
14 19 (8.44%) DevOps
14 19 (8.44%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.33%) Java
2 71 (31.56%) Python
3 61 (27.11%) TypeScript
4 60 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 55 (24.44%) SQL
6 50 (22.22%) C#
7 11 (4.89%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.56%) Go
9 7 (3.11%) C++
10 6 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.78%) Bash
11 4 (1.78%) Tcl
12 3 (1.33%) C
12 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.89%) R
14 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.33%) Degree
2 11 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.22%) PhD
4 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.44%) CFA
6 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.44%) PMP
6 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.67%) MiFID
3 5 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (0.89%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.89%) EMIR
4 2 (0.89%) GAAP
4 2 (0.89%) IFRS
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.89%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.33%) Ansible
3 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.44%) Argo
4 1 (0.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.78%) Charles River
1 13 (5.78%) Murex
2 12 (5.33%) Tradeweb
3 11 (4.89%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.44%) MarketAxess
4 10 (4.44%) Solace
5 9 (4.00%) Oracle
6 8 (3.56%) Sybase
7 6 (2.67%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.78%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.33%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.89%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.89%) Calypso
10 2 (0.89%) FIS
10 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.89%) Temenos
11 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv