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 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 232 306
Rank change year-on-year -153 +74 -41
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 202 372 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.10% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 3.44% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 323 293
10th Percentile £498 £588 £596
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £850 £869 £844
90th Percentile £955 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £640
% change year-on-year -5.95% -17.97% +6.67%
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 12,896 10,804 13,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.68% 32.02% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,081 6,457 9,136
10th Percentile £278 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £656 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 329 512
10th Percentile £13.94 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £23.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.27 £33.54 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% -20.50% +20.54%
75th Percentile £60.65 £64.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -15.83% -27.37% +50.57%

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 26 December 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 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 26 December 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 -156 194 £750 +3.45% 61
London -93 192 £750 +3.45% 51
Work from Home -107 75 £750 -6.25% 15
UK excluding London -54 8 £494 -5.95% 17
Scotland +6 3 - -
Northern Ireland -7 3 £494 +64.58%
Yorkshire -38 2 - -
North of England -59 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 32 (15.84%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (10.89%) Apache
3 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.97%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.48%) ION MarketView
4 4 (1.98%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.99%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.99%) BondVision
6 1 (0.50%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 57 (28.22%) AWS
2 32 (15.84%) dbt
3 27 (13.37%) Snowflake
4 17 (8.42%) Azure
5 11 (5.45%) GCP
6 10 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.97%) GitHub
7 6 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.48%) Serverless
9 4 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.99%) SaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.50%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) Multicast
1 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.99%) tcpdump
1 2 (0.99%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.84%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (15.84%) Apache Arrow
1 32 (15.84%) Apache Iceberg
1 32 (15.84%) Dremio
2 23 (11.39%) Data Lake
3 22 (10.89%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (8.42%) KDB
5 14 (6.93%) Kdb+
5 14 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.97%) Flink
8 5 (2.48%) Power BI
9 4 (1.98%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.99%) Tableau
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.44%) JIRA
2 7 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.97%) Git
4 5 (2.48%) QUnit
5 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.99%) GitLab
6 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 143 (70.79%) Finance
2 114 (56.44%) Front Office
3 79 (39.11%) Banking
4 60 (29.70%) Social Skills
5 54 (26.73%) Investment Banking
6 30 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (10.89%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.46%) Back Office
9 5 (2.48%) Legal
9 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (35.15%) Developer
2 44 (21.78%) Senior
3 43 (21.29%) Python Engineer
3 43 (21.29%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.81%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (16.83%) Python Software Engineer
6 32 (15.84%) AWS Software Engineer
7 31 (15.35%) Analyst
8 29 (14.36%) Business Analyst
8 29 (14.36%) Python Developer
9 24 (11.88%) Java Engineer
9 24 (11.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 22 (10.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (10.40%) Senior Java Engineer
11 21 (10.40%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 18 (8.91%) Senior Developer
13 17 (8.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (6.44%) Java Developer
15 12 (5.94%) Project Manager
15 12 (5.94%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.84%) NumPy
1 32 (15.84%) Pandas
1 32 (15.84%) SciPy
2 27 (13.37%) React
3 24 (11.88%) Kafka
4 22 (10.89%) gRPC
4 22 (10.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (8.91%) REST
6 17 (8.42%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (7.92%) Node.js
8 14 (6.93%) .NET
9 10 (4.95%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.95%) Vue
10 8 (3.96%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.47%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.47%) Redux
12 6 (2.97%) Dask
12 6 (2.97%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.97%) HTML
13 4 (1.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 85 (42.08%) Equities
1 85 (42.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (32.18%) Derivative
3 32 (15.84%) Hedge funds
4 22 (10.89%) Pricing Data
5 19 (9.41%) Algorithms
6 16 (7.92%) Cloud Native
7 15 (7.43%) Product Ownership
8 13 (6.44%) Data Structures
9 11 (5.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (3.96%) Reference Data
12 7 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.98%) Market Risk
15 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
16 2 (0.99%) Equity Derivative
16 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.34%) Linux
2 11 (5.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.64%) Agile
2 56 (27.72%) Software Engineering
3 51 (25.25%) Investment Management
4 44 (21.78%) Asset Management
5 41 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (19.31%) Electronic Trading
7 33 (16.34%) Risk Management
8 27 (13.37%) Analytics
8 27 (13.37%) DevOps
9 26 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (10.89%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.89%) Fintech
10 22 (10.89%) Low Latency
10 22 (10.89%) Order Management
11 18 (8.91%) Computer Science
12 16 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (7.92%) Multithreading
13 14 (6.93%) Design Patterns
13 14 (6.93%) Quantitative Finance
13 14 (6.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 106 (52.48%) Python
2 53 (26.24%) SQL
3 48 (23.76%) Java
4 45 (22.28%) JavaScript
5 41 (20.30%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.43%) C#
7 8 (3.96%) Go
7 8 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.97%) C++
9 2 (0.99%) Bash
9 2 (0.99%) Perl
9 2 (0.99%) Tcl
9 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.99%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.38%) Degree
2 11 (5.45%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.97%) PhD
5 2 (0.99%) CISM
5 2 (0.99%) CISSP
5 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.50%) PMP
6 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.94%) QA
2 11 (5.45%) MiFID
3 7 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.48%) EMIR
5 2 (0.99%) Basel III
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) NIST
5 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (6.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.97%) Argo
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.98%) Grafana
4 4 (1.98%) Kibana
4 4 (1.98%) logstash
4 4 (1.98%) Terraform
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.50%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (8.91%) ION Trading
2 14 (6.93%) Bloomberg
2 14 (6.93%) Murex
3 8 (3.96%) Tradeweb
4 7 (3.47%) Databricks
5 6 (2.97%) Charles River
5 6 (2.97%) MarketAxess
5 6 (2.97%) Solace
6 5 (2.48%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.48%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.98%) Portware
7 4 (1.98%) Splunk
8 3 (1.49%) Reuters
9 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.99%) CQG
9 2 (0.99%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle
9 2 (0.99%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv