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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 230 293
Rank change year-on-year -169 +63 +12
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 215 347 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.18% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 3.51% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 306 323
10th Percentile £508 £588 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £843 £875 £844
90th Percentile £890 £938 £973
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.70% -6.12%
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 14,184 9,892 13,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.22% 33.61% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,915 6,217 8,666
10th Percentile £288 £278 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 346 876
10th Percentile £15.31 £16.95 £12.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.04% +26.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.32 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year +14.36% +19.13% +21.18%

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 12 March 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 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 12 March 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 -175 211 £750 +3.45% 41
London -97 208 £750 +3.45% 41
Work from Home -138 84 £750 +3.45% 15
UK excluding London -93 5 £613 +16.67% 9
Northern Ireland -9 2 £500 +66.67%
North of England -63 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 -

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 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) Apache
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.79%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.33%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.40%) Summit
5 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.28%) AWS
2 30 (13.95%) GCP
3 28 (13.02%) Azure
4 14 (6.51%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (2.79%) GitHub
6 6 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.79%) SaaS
7 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.40%) dbt
7 3 (1.40%) Serverless
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
1 1 (0.47%) Multicast
1 1 (0.47%) RTMP
1 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.65%) KDB
2 10 (4.65%) Kdb+
3 9 (4.19%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.79%) Flink
5 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.40%) Apache Arrow
7 3 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.40%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (1.40%) Dremio
7 3 (1.40%) Metadata
7 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.93%) Power BI
8 2 (0.93%) Power Query
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.12%) JIRA
2 7 (3.26%) Git
3 6 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.40%) QUnit
4 3 (1.40%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) Mockito
6 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.47%) MSTest
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 148 (68.84%) Finance
2 125 (58.14%) Front Office
3 67 (31.16%) Banking
4 57 (26.51%) Social Skills
5 41 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (17.21%) Investment Banking
7 19 (8.84%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.26%) Back Office
9 6 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.33%) Legal
11 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 103 (47.91%) Developer
2 52 (24.19%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 42 (19.53%) Lead
5 39 (18.14%) Business Analyst
6 36 (16.74%) Lead Developer
7 35 (16.28%) Analyst
8 32 (14.88%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (14.88%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (12.09%) Python Developer
10 24 (11.16%) Senior
11 21 (9.77%) Java Developer
11 21 (9.77%) React Developer
12 20 (9.30%) Python Engineer
13 14 (6.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Developer
14 13 (6.05%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (5.58%) Java Engineer
16 11 (5.12%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.12%) React
2 50 (23.26%) Kafka
3 49 (22.79%) Redux
4 48 (22.33%) Node.js
5 32 (14.88%) GraphQL
6 13 (6.05%) REST
7 11 (5.12%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (4.65%) .NET
8 10 (4.65%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.65%) Pandas
9 9 (4.19%) NumPy
10 8 (3.72%) Vue
10 8 (3.72%) XML
11 7 (3.26%) HTML
12 6 (2.79%) Dask
13 5 (2.33%) CSS
13 5 (2.33%) Reactive Extensions
13 5 (2.33%) RESTful
14 4 (1.86%) HTML5
14 4 (1.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 75 (34.88%) Equities
2 64 (29.77%) Derivative
3 48 (22.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.44%) Algorithms
5 15 (6.98%) Cloud Native
6 13 (6.05%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (4.65%) Data Structures
9 9 (4.19%) Hedge funds
10 8 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (2.33%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.86%) OTC Derivatives
14 3 (1.40%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.40%) Pricing Data
15 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.56%) Linux
2 12 (5.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.14%) Agile
2 62 (28.84%) Investment Management
2 62 (28.84%) Software Engineering
3 54 (25.12%) Portfolio Management
4 47 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (20.47%) Electronic Trading
6 37 (17.21%) Order Management
7 35 (16.28%) Asset Management
8 29 (13.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (13.02%) Fintech
10 27 (12.56%) CI/CD
11 26 (12.09%) Analytics
11 26 (12.09%) Risk Management
12 23 (10.70%) Mentoring
13 22 (10.23%) DevOps
13 22 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (9.30%) Low Latency
15 18 (8.37%) Line Management
15 18 (8.37%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.91%) AI
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.02%) Python
2 61 (28.37%) Java
3 58 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 58 (26.98%) SQL
3 58 (26.98%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.88%) Go
5 8 (3.72%) C#
6 5 (2.33%) C++
6 5 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.86%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.40%) VBA
9 2 (0.93%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) Tcl
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.63%) Degree
2 10 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.79%) PhD
5 2 (0.93%) CISM
5 2 (0.93%) CISSP
5 2 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) ACCA
6 1 (0.47%) CFA
6 1 (0.47%) CISA
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.98%) QA
2 12 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) IFRS
4 2 (0.93%) MiFID
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) EMIR
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.79%) Argo
2 6 (2.79%) Terraform
3 5 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.86%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) logstash
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (8.84%) Murex
2 16 (7.44%) ION Trading
3 14 (6.51%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.58%) Charles River
5 8 (3.72%) Oracle
6 7 (3.26%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.33%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.86%) MarketAxess
9 3 (1.40%) Databricks
9 3 (1.40%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.40%) Solace
9 3 (1.40%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.93%) Citrix
10 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.93%) FIS
10 2 (0.93%) Reuters
10 2 (0.93%) Splunk
10 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv