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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 181 271
Rank change year-on-year -88 +90 -19
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 324 523 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.36% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.77% 4.46% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 486 411
10th Percentile £538 £556 £550
25th Percentile £650 £644 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -1.75%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £825
90th Percentile £875 - £938
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £650 £810
% change year-on-year -23.08% -19.75% +35.00%

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 11,715 11,730 16,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.55% 30.44% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,170 7,174 10,973
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 472 449
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.81
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £48.37
% change year-on-year -47.69% +18.58% +122.06%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 10 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 19 September 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 -86 312 £750 -6.25% 64
London -51 308 £750 -6.25% 60
Work from Home -28 196 £750 -6.25% 17
UK excluding London +19 13 £500 -23.08% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £513 - 1
Scotland - 5 - -
Yorkshire -16 2 - -
North of England -28 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -

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 84 (25.93%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (14.81%) Apache
3 8 (2.47%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (11.11%) Aladdin
2 20 (6.17%) thinkFolio
3 7 (2.16%) Fidessa
4 6 (1.85%) ION Anvil
5 4 (1.23%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.62%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.62%) BondVision
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.68%) AWS
2 84 (25.93%) dbt
3 80 (24.69%) GCP
4 48 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 41 (12.65%) Azure
6 12 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.23%) Serverless
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (0.93%) Figma
10 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.62%) SaaS
11 1 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.31%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Multicast
3 1 (0.31%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (25.93%) Amazon Athena
1 84 (25.93%) Apache Arrow
1 84 (25.93%) Apache Iceberg
1 84 (25.93%) Dremio
2 62 (19.14%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (14.81%) Apache Ignite
3 48 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.32%) KDB
4 14 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.09%) Power BI
6 7 (2.16%) Kdb+
6 7 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.54%) Data Mart
8 5 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.93%) Power Query
9 3 (0.93%) Tableau
10 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (4.32%) JIRA
2 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.62%) Git
4 2 (0.62%) QUnit
5 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 268 (82.72%) Finance
2 239 (73.77%) Front Office
3 135 (41.67%) Banking
4 84 (25.93%) Investment Banking
5 65 (20.06%) Social Skills
6 28 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.79%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.78%) Back Office
9 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 146 (45.06%) Developer
1 146 (45.06%) Software Engineer
2 92 (28.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 84 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
3 84 (25.93%) AWS Software Engineer
4 77 (23.77%) Python Engineer
5 75 (23.15%) Analyst
5 75 (23.15%) Python Software Engineer
6 67 (20.68%) Senior
7 65 (20.06%) Java Engineer
7 65 (20.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 57 (17.59%) Business Analyst
9 49 (15.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 48 (14.81%) Senior Java Engineer
10 48 (14.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 40 (12.35%) Python Developer
12 36 (11.11%) AWS Developer
12 36 (11.11%) React Developer
13 32 (9.88%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 27 (8.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (31.48%) React
2 89 (27.47%) NumPy
3 88 (27.16%) Pandas
4 85 (26.23%) SciPy
5 74 (22.84%) Node.js
6 55 (16.98%) Redux
7 50 (15.43%) AngularJS
7 50 (15.43%) Vue
8 48 (14.81%) gRPC
8 48 (14.81%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (6.79%) .NET
9 22 (6.79%) FIX Protocol
10 18 (5.56%) Kafka
11 17 (5.25%) .NET Framework
12 12 (3.70%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.09%) REST
14 7 (2.16%) .NET Core
15 6 (1.85%) Middleware
15 6 (1.85%) Reactive Extensions
16 5 (1.54%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (51.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 145 (44.75%) Equities
3 119 (36.73%) Derivative
4 96 (29.63%) Hedge funds
5 48 (14.81%) Pricing Data
6 21 (6.48%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.86%) Product Ownership
8 15 (4.63%) Algorithms
9 14 (4.32%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.78%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.85%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.54%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.23%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.93%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.41%) Linux
2 11 (3.40%) Unix
3 6 (1.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (66.98%) Agile
2 175 (54.01%) Investment Management
3 161 (49.69%) Software Engineering
4 160 (49.38%) Asset Management
5 81 (25.00%) Fintech
6 54 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 53 (16.36%) Order Management
8 48 (14.81%) Analytics
9 45 (13.89%) Performance Attribution
10 40 (12.35%) Portfolio Management
11 39 (12.04%) Business Analysis
12 38 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (10.19%) TDD
15 29 (8.95%) User Experience
16 28 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (8.02%) Computer Science
17 26 (8.02%) Electronic Trading
18 24 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
19 23 (7.10%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 201 (62.04%) Python
2 144 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 139 (42.90%) TypeScript
4 93 (28.70%) Java
5 71 (21.91%) SQL
6 29 (8.95%) C#
7 15 (4.63%) Go
8 10 (3.09%) C++
9 8 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.85%) F#
11 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.62%) Bash
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.31%) Tcl
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (6.79%) Degree
2 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.62%) CFA
4 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.62%) PMP
5 1 (0.31%) CBAP
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.70%) MiFID
2 10 (3.09%) QA
3 8 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.54%) EMIR
5 3 (0.93%) Basel III
6 1 (0.31%) FINRA
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (3.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (4.01%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.54%) Kibana
3 5 (1.54%) logstash
4 4 (1.23%) Ansible
4 4 (1.23%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (7.72%) BISAM
2 20 (6.17%) Calypso
3 18 (5.56%) ION Trading
4 17 (5.25%) Murex
5 16 (4.94%) Charles River
5 16 (4.94%) SimCorp
6 14 (4.32%) Bloomberg
7 11 (3.40%) Microsoft
8 9 (2.78%) Oracle
9 8 (2.47%) Reuters
10 7 (2.16%) Databricks
11 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.85%) Solace
11 6 (1.85%) Splunk
11 6 (1.85%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.23%) Portware
12 4 (1.23%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.93%) CQG
13 3 (0.93%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.62%) MarketAxess