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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 223 317
Rank change year-on-year -174 +94 -53
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 199 365 307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 3.42% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 320 286
10th Percentile £497 £588 £598
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £844
90th Percentile £960 £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 12,789 10,683 13,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 32.07% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 6,371 9,015
10th Percentile £275 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £530 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% -3.20% -0.45%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £664
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 624 327 511
10th Percentile £13.97 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.30 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.21 £33.75 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% -18.67% +29.69%
75th Percentile £60.86 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -16.28% -27.37% +72.12%

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 29 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 29 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 -152 191 £750 +5.26% 116
London -92 189 £750 +3.45% 69
Work from Home -113 74 £750 -3.23% 17
UK excluding London -47 8 £494 -5.95% 57
Scotland +5 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland -11 3 £494 +64.58% 1
North of England -46 2 - - 8
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3

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 31 (15.58%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.06%) Apache
3 6 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.02%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.51%) ION MarketView
4 4 (2.01%) thinkFolio
5 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (1.01%) BondVision
6 1 (0.50%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.14%) AWS
2 31 (15.58%) dbt
3 27 (13.57%) Snowflake
4 17 (8.54%) Azure
5 10 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.03%) GCP
6 6 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.02%) GitHub
6 6 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.51%) Serverless
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.01%) SaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.50%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Multicast
1 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.01%) tcpdump
1 2 (1.01%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.58%) Amazon Athena
1 31 (15.58%) Apache Arrow
1 31 (15.58%) Apache Iceberg
1 31 (15.58%) Dremio
2 23 (11.56%) Data Lake
3 22 (11.06%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (8.04%) KDB
5 14 (7.04%) Kdb+
6 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.53%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.02%) Flink
9 5 (2.51%) Power BI
10 4 (2.01%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.01%) Tableau
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) JIRA
2 7 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.02%) Git
4 5 (2.51%) QUnit
5 3 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.01%) GitLab
6 2 (1.01%) 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
1 141 (70.85%) Finance
2 111 (55.78%) Front Office
3 78 (39.20%) Banking
4 60 (30.15%) Social Skills
5 53 (26.63%) Investment Banking
6 30 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (11.06%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.52%) Back Office
9 5 (2.51%) Legal
9 5 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (34.67%) Developer
2 43 (21.61%) Senior
3 42 (21.11%) Python Engineer
4 41 (20.60%) Software Engineer
5 37 (18.59%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (16.58%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (15.58%) Analyst
7 31 (15.58%) AWS Software Engineer
8 29 (14.57%) Business Analyst
9 28 (14.07%) Python Developer
10 24 (12.06%) Java Engineer
10 24 (12.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 21 (10.55%) Senior Java Engineer
11 21 (10.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 21 (10.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (8.54%) Senior Developer
13 15 (7.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (6.53%) Java Developer
15 12 (6.03%) Project Manager
15 12 (6.03%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.58%) NumPy
1 31 (15.58%) Pandas
1 31 (15.58%) SciPy
2 26 (13.07%) React
3 24 (12.06%) Kafka
4 22 (11.06%) gRPC
4 22 (11.06%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (9.05%) REST
6 17 (8.54%) FIX Protocol
7 15 (7.54%) Node.js
8 14 (7.04%) .NET
9 9 (4.52%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.52%) Vue
10 8 (4.02%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.52%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.52%) Redux
12 6 (3.02%) Dask
12 6 (3.02%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.02%) HTML
13 4 (2.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 84 (42.21%) Equities
1 84 (42.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (32.66%) Derivative
3 32 (16.08%) Hedge funds
4 22 (11.06%) Pricing Data
5 19 (9.55%) Algorithms
6 16 (8.04%) Cloud Native
7 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
8 13 (6.53%) Data Structures
9 11 (5.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (4.02%) Reference Data
12 7 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
14 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (2.01%) Market Risk
15 3 (1.51%) Credit Risk
16 2 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
16 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.08%) Linux
2 11 (5.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.68%) Agile
2 54 (27.14%) Software Engineering
3 50 (25.13%) Investment Management
4 43 (21.61%) Asset Management
5 41 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (19.60%) Electronic Trading
7 32 (16.08%) Risk Management
8 27 (13.57%) Analytics
8 27 (13.57%) DevOps
9 25 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (11.06%) CI/CD
10 22 (11.06%) Low Latency
11 21 (10.55%) Fintech
11 21 (10.55%) Order Management
12 18 (9.05%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (8.04%) Multithreading
14 14 (7.04%) Design Patterns
14 14 (7.04%) Quantitative Finance
14 14 (7.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (52.26%) Python
2 53 (26.63%) SQL
3 48 (24.12%) Java
4 44 (22.11%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.10%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.54%) C#
7 8 (4.02%) Go
7 8 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.02%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Bash
9 2 (1.01%) Perl
9 2 (1.01%) Tcl
9 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.56%) Degree
2 11 (5.53%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.02%) PhD
5 2 (1.01%) CISM
5 2 (1.01%) CISSP
5 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.01%) 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 (6.03%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) MiFID
3 7 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.51%) EMIR
5 2 (1.01%) Basel III
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.52%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (3.02%) Argo
4 4 (2.01%) Ansible
4 4 (2.01%) Grafana
4 4 (2.01%) Kibana
4 4 (2.01%) logstash
4 4 (2.01%) Terraform
5 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.50%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (9.05%) ION Trading
2 14 (7.04%) Bloomberg
2 14 (7.04%) Murex
3 8 (4.02%) Tradeweb
4 7 (3.52%) Databricks
5 6 (3.02%) Charles River
5 6 (3.02%) MarketAxess
5 6 (3.02%) Solace
6 5 (2.51%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.51%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.01%) Portware
7 4 (2.01%) Splunk
8 3 (1.51%) Reuters
9 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.01%) CQG
9 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.01%) Oracle
9 2 (1.01%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv