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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 217 293
Rank change year-on-year -102 +76 -36
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 259 417 391
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.14% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 3.71% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 376 359
10th Percentile £525 £563 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £844
90th Percentile £875 £888 £940
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -24.04% +1.56% +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 12,239 11,232 15,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 30.73% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,524 6,660 10,200
10th Percentile £283 £277 £285
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -4.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 347 496
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £16.96
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.31 £21.04
Median hourly rate £27.00 £41.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% -7.34% +64.01%
75th Percentile £51.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.58 £43.46 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.15% -5.89% +100.78%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 -104 248 £750 -6.25% 77
London -56 244 £750 -6.25% 60
Work from Home -81 121 £750 -6.25% 16
UK excluding London -19 14 £494 -24.04% 42
Northern Ireland -1 5 £500 - 1
Scotland - 5 - - 1
Yorkshire -29 3 - -
North of England -37 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -

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 59 (22.78%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (13.90%) Apache
3 9 (3.47%) Confluence
4 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (7.72%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.70%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.70%) ION MarketView
2 7 (2.70%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.77%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.77%) BondVision
3 2 (0.77%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 100 (38.61%) AWS
2 59 (22.78%) dbt
3 42 (16.22%) GCP
4 40 (15.44%) Snowflake
5 31 (11.97%) Azure
6 10 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.47%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.93%) Serverless
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.77%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.77%) GitHub
11 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.77%) SaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.39%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.54%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) Multicast
3 2 (0.77%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.77%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.78%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (22.78%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (22.78%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (22.78%) Dremio
2 37 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 36 (13.90%) Apache Ignite
4 35 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.95%) KDB
6 13 (5.02%) Kdb+
7 12 (4.63%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.47%) Power BI
9 7 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.93%) Data Mart
10 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.77%) Big Data
12 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.77%) Flink
12 2 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.79%) JIRA
2 8 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.93%) QUnit
4 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.16%) Git
6 2 (0.77%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (79.54%) Finance
2 171 (66.02%) Front Office
3 106 (40.93%) Banking
4 74 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 66 (25.48%) Social Skills
6 28 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (9.27%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.47%) Back Office
9 5 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.16%) Law
11 3 (1.16%) Legal
11 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (40.15%) Developer
2 96 (37.07%) Software Engineer
3 61 (23.55%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (23.17%) Python Engineer
5 59 (22.78%) AWS Software Engineer
6 56 (21.62%) Python Software Engineer
7 55 (21.24%) Senior
8 54 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 49 (18.92%) Analyst
10 46 (17.76%) Java Engineer
10 46 (17.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 36 (13.90%) Business Analyst
11 36 (13.90%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (13.51%) Senior Java Engineer
12 35 (13.51%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 29 (11.20%) Python Developer
14 23 (8.88%) AWS Developer
15 22 (8.49%) Java Developer
16 19 (7.34%) React Developer
17 15 (5.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (24.71%) React
2 62 (23.94%) NumPy
3 61 (23.55%) Pandas
4 60 (23.17%) SciPy
5 47 (18.15%) Node.js
6 36 (13.90%) gRPC
6 36 (13.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 30 (11.58%) Redux
8 29 (11.20%) AngularJS
8 29 (11.20%) Vue
9 26 (10.04%) FIX Protocol
10 20 (7.72%) Kafka
11 16 (6.18%) .NET
11 16 (6.18%) REST
12 12 (4.63%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.86%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.70%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (2.70%) Middleware
15 5 (1.93%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 137 (52.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 117 (45.17%) Equities
3 95 (36.68%) Derivative
4 57 (22.01%) Hedge funds
5 36 (13.90%) Pricing Data
6 21 (8.11%) Algorithms
7 20 (7.72%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.56%) Cloud Native
9 15 (5.79%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.70%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.32%) Market Risk
12 6 (2.32%) Reference Data
12 6 (2.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.54%) Credit Risk
15 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
15 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.36%) Linux
2 11 (4.25%) Unix
3 6 (2.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (55.98%) Agile
2 113 (43.63%) Software Engineering
3 105 (40.54%) Investment Management
4 93 (35.91%) Asset Management
5 48 (18.53%) Fintech
6 44 (16.99%) Risk Management
7 42 (16.22%) Order Management
8 37 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
9 36 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.36%) Analytics
11 27 (10.42%) DevOps
11 27 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (9.65%) Low Latency
12 25 (9.65%) Performance Attribution
13 24 (9.27%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.11%) Scrum
15 20 (7.72%) CI/CD
15 20 (7.72%) Portfolio Management
16 19 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
17 17 (6.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 147 (56.76%) Python
2 95 (36.68%) JavaScript
3 90 (34.75%) TypeScript
4 78 (30.12%) Java
5 59 (22.78%) SQL
6 24 (9.27%) C#
7 15 (5.79%) Go
8 12 (4.63%) C++
9 11 (4.25%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.77%) Tcl
11 2 (0.77%) VBA
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (9.27%) Degree
2 13 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.86%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.54%) PhD
5 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.77%) PMP
5 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) CBAP
6 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.02%) MiFID
2 10 (3.86%) QA
3 8 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.93%) EMIR
5 3 (1.16%) Basel III
6 1 (0.39%) FINRA
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (4.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (5.02%) ITRS Geneos
2 12 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.70%) Kibana
3 7 (2.70%) logstash
4 5 (1.93%) Grafana
5 4 (1.54%) Ansible
6 3 (1.16%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.77%) Argo
7 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (7.72%) Murex
2 18 (6.95%) ION Trading
3 17 (6.56%) Bloomberg
4 9 (3.47%) Solace
4 9 (3.47%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.09%) Reuters
6 7 (2.70%) Charles River
6 7 (2.70%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.32%) Calypso
7 6 (2.32%) Databricks
7 6 (2.32%) Oracle
8 5 (1.93%) BISAM
8 5 (1.93%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.54%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.54%) Portware
10 3 (1.16%) CQG
10 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.16%) SimCorp
10 3 (1.16%) Splunk
10 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software