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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 221 291
Rank change year-on-year -117 +70 -30
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 258 408 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.12% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 3.60% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 361 343
10th Percentile £521 £588 £550
25th Percentile £623 £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 £850
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £600 £640
% change year-on-year -17.71% -6.25% +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 12,653 11,334 15,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.83% 30.99% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,823 6,683 10,166
10th Percentile £275 £285 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £666
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 682 366 509
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.96 £16.73
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.50 £20.82
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% -14.46% +48.61%
75th Percentile £51.25 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -30.00% -18.80% +84.72%

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 16 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 16 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 -112 247 £750 -6.25% 98
London -66 243 £750 -6.25% 86
Work from Home -75 117 £750 -6.25% 39
UK excluding London -25 13 £494 -17.71% 19
Northern Ireland -6 5 £500 +66.67%
Scotland 0 4 - - 4
North of England -37 3 - - 6
Yorkshire -38 3 - - 1
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 55 (21.32%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (13.18%) Apache
3 8 (3.10%) Confluence
4 5 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (5.81%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.71%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.71%) ION MarketView
3 5 (1.94%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.78%) BondVision
4 2 (0.78%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.21%) AWS
2 55 (21.32%) dbt
3 38 (14.73%) Snowflake
4 37 (14.34%) GCP
5 30 (11.63%) Azure
6 10 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.94%) Serverless
9 4 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.55%) GitHub
9 4 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (0.78%) SaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.39%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) Multicast
3 2 (0.78%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.32%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (21.32%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (21.32%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (21.32%) Dremio
2 35 (13.57%) Data Lake
3 34 (13.18%) Apache Ignite
4 32 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.98%) KDB
6 13 (5.04%) Kdb+
7 12 (4.65%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.10%) Power BI
9 7 (2.71%) Data Mart
9 7 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.55%) Flink
11 4 (1.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.16%) Power Query
13 2 (0.78%) Big Data
13 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.81%) JIRA
2 7 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.94%) QUnit
4 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.16%) Git
6 2 (0.78%) 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
1 204 (79.07%) Finance
2 165 (63.95%) Front Office
3 105 (40.70%) Banking
4 71 (27.52%) Investment Banking
5 65 (25.19%) Social Skills
6 35 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (10.47%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.26%) Back Office
9 5 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Legal
11 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.16%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (40.31%) Developer
2 89 (34.50%) Software Engineer
3 59 (22.87%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (22.87%) Python Engineer
4 55 (21.32%) AWS Software Engineer
4 55 (21.32%) Senior
5 53 (20.54%) Python Software Engineer
6 49 (18.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 44 (17.05%) Analyst
8 43 (16.67%) Java Engineer
8 43 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 34 (13.18%) Senior Software Engineer
10 33 (12.79%) Senior Java Engineer
10 33 (12.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 32 (12.40%) Business Analyst
11 32 (12.40%) Python Developer
12 21 (8.14%) AWS Developer
12 21 (8.14%) Java Developer
13 18 (6.98%) Senior Developer
14 17 (6.59%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (23.26%) React
2 58 (22.48%) NumPy
3 57 (22.09%) Pandas
4 56 (21.71%) SciPy
5 43 (16.67%) Node.js
6 34 (13.18%) gRPC
6 34 (13.18%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (10.85%) Redux
8 26 (10.08%) AngularJS
8 26 (10.08%) Vue
9 25 (9.69%) FIX Protocol
9 25 (9.69%) Kafka
10 17 (6.59%) .NET
11 16 (6.20%) REST
12 12 (4.65%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.88%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.71%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.71%) Middleware
15 6 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (1.94%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 132 (51.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 114 (44.19%) Equities
3 89 (34.50%) Derivative
4 50 (19.38%) Hedge funds
5 34 (13.18%) Pricing Data
6 21 (8.14%) Algorithms
7 20 (7.75%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.59%) Cloud Native
9 15 (5.81%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.71%) Reference Data
11 7 (2.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.33%) Market Risk
13 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.55%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.40%) Linux
2 12 (4.65%) Unix
3 6 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (52.71%) Agile
2 107 (41.47%) Software Engineering
3 96 (37.21%) Investment Management
4 82 (31.78%) Asset Management
5 46 (17.83%) Fintech
6 43 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 40 (15.50%) Electronic Trading
7 40 (15.50%) Order Management
7 40 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (12.40%) Analytics
9 30 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (10.85%) DevOps
11 25 (9.69%) Computer Science
12 24 (9.30%) Low Latency
13 22 (8.53%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.14%) Performance Attribution
15 20 (7.75%) Scrum
16 19 (7.36%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (6.20%) Design Patterns
17 16 (6.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 145 (56.20%) Python
2 88 (34.11%) JavaScript
3 84 (32.56%) TypeScript
4 77 (29.84%) Java
5 58 (22.48%) SQL
6 24 (9.30%) C#
7 15 (5.81%) Go
8 12 (4.65%) C++
8 12 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.16%) Bash
9 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Tcl
10 2 (0.78%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (10.47%) Degree
2 13 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.94%) PhD
5 2 (0.78%) CISM
5 2 (0.78%) CISSP
5 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.78%) PMP
5 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.78%) 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 (5.04%) MiFID
2 11 (4.26%) QA
3 8 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.94%) EMIR
5 3 (1.16%) Basel III
6 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) FINRA
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (5.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.65%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.33%) Kibana
3 6 (2.33%) logstash
4 5 (1.94%) Grafana
5 4 (1.55%) Ansible
5 4 (1.55%) Argo
6 3 (1.16%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
8 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (8.53%) Murex
2 18 (6.98%) ION Trading
3 16 (6.20%) Bloomberg
4 9 (3.49%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.10%) Solace
6 7 (2.71%) Reuters
6 7 (2.71%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.33%) Databricks
7 6 (2.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.94%) Charles River
8 5 (1.94%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.55%) Calypso
9 4 (1.55%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.55%) Portware
10 3 (1.16%) CQG
10 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.16%) Splunk
10 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.78%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.39%) GoldenSource