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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 232 304
Rank change year-on-year -182 +72 +4
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 189 347 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.13% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 3.40% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 304 295
10th Percentile £493 £588 £563
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -2.03%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £838
90th Percentile £947 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -5.15%
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 13,739 10,208 13,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 33.21% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,655 6,183 8,754
10th Percentile £275 £265 £258
25th Percentile £405 £406 £411
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 £765 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 324 830
10th Percentile £15.38 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.30 £16.57
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.91 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +1.25% +44.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.60 £82.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.30 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.76% -7.14% +59.09%

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 21 February 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 7 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 21 February 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 -180 185 £750 +3.45% 31
London -117 183 £750 +3.45% 29
Work from Home -149 66 £750 +3.45% 17
UK excluding London -85 4 £500 -4.76% 12
Northern Ireland -7 2 £500 +66.67% 1
North of England -61 2 - -
Yorkshire - 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 8 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.65%) Apache
3 5 (2.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.17%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.59%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (1.59%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.06%) Summit
5 1 (0.53%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.16%) AWS
2 20 (10.58%) GCP
3 17 (8.99%) Azure
4 13 (6.88%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.23%) dbt
7 6 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.17%) GitHub
7 6 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.17%) SaaS
8 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.06%) Serverless
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.53%) npm
9 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.53%) HTTP
1 1 (0.53%) Multicast
1 1 (0.53%) RTMP
1 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.53%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.35%) KDB
2 12 (6.35%) Kdb+
3 8 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (4.23%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (4.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (4.23%) Dremio
3 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.17%) Flink
6 5 (2.65%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.06%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.06%) Metadata
7 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
3 6 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.59%) QUnit
5 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Mocha
6 1 (0.53%) Mockito
6 1 (0.53%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 124 (65.61%) Finance
2 105 (55.56%) Front Office
3 64 (33.86%) Banking
4 57 (30.16%) Social Skills
5 39 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (20.11%) Investment Banking
7 17 (8.99%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.23%) Back Office
9 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.65%) Legal
10 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (42.86%) Developer
2 39 (20.63%) Business Analyst
3 33 (17.46%) Software Engineer
4 32 (16.93%) Analyst
5 25 (13.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 25 (13.23%) Python Developer
5 25 (13.23%) Senior
6 23 (12.17%) Lead
7 20 (10.58%) Python Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Lead Developer
9 17 (8.99%) Java Developer
10 16 (8.47%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (8.47%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (6.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 13 (6.88%) Quantitative Developer
13 12 (6.35%) React Developer
13 12 (6.35%) Senior Developer
14 11 (5.82%) Technical Business Analyst
15 10 (5.29%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.46%) Kafka
1 33 (17.46%) React
2 27 (14.29%) Node.js
3 25 (13.23%) Redux
4 16 (8.47%) GraphQL
5 13 (6.88%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (6.88%) NumPy
5 13 (6.88%) Pandas
5 13 (6.88%) REST
6 9 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.23%) .NET
7 8 (4.23%) HTML
7 8 (4.23%) SciPy
8 7 (3.70%) Vue
8 7 (3.70%) XML
9 6 (3.17%) Dask
10 5 (2.65%) gRPC
10 5 (2.65%) HTML5
10 5 (2.65%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (2.65%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 67 (35.45%) Equities
2 54 (28.57%) Derivative
3 51 (26.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (9.52%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.88%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.35%) Data Structures
7 11 (5.82%) Hedge funds
7 11 (5.82%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.23%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.65%) Pricing Data
12 4 (2.12%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.59%) Market Risk
14 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.06%) OTC Derivatives
14 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.81%) Linux
2 11 (5.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.75%) Agile
2 45 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (23.28%) Investment Management
4 43 (22.75%) Electronic Trading
5 41 (21.69%) Software Engineering
6 29 (15.34%) Asset Management
7 28 (14.81%) Portfolio Management
7 28 (14.81%) Risk Management
8 27 (14.29%) Analytics
9 23 (12.17%) CI/CD
9 23 (12.17%) Fintech
9 23 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (11.64%) Order Management
11 20 (10.58%) Low Latency
12 19 (10.05%) DevOps
13 18 (9.52%) AI
14 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (8.47%) Machine Learning
15 15 (7.94%) SDLC
16 14 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.74%) Python
2 53 (28.04%) SQL
3 46 (24.34%) Java
4 39 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 37 (19.58%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.47%) Go
7 6 (3.17%) C#
8 5 (2.65%) C++
8 5 (2.65%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.06%) Perl
10 2 (1.06%) Tcl
10 2 (1.06%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.70%) Degree
2 10 (5.29%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.17%) PhD
4 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) CISM
5 2 (1.06%) CISSP
5 2 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) ACCA
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CFA
6 1 (0.53%) CISA
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.59%) GDPR
3 3 (1.59%) IFRS
4 2 (1.06%) MiFID
4 2 (1.06%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Basel III
5 1 (0.53%) EMIR
5 1 (0.53%) GAAP
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) ITGC
5 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.17%) Argo
2 6 (3.17%) Terraform
3 5 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.12%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Kibana
5 2 (1.06%) logstash
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.52%) ION Trading
2 15 (7.94%) Murex
3 13 (6.88%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.76%) Charles River
5 7 (3.70%) Oracle
6 6 (3.17%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.65%) Tradeweb
8 4 (2.12%) MarketAxess
9 3 (1.59%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.59%) Solace
9 3 (1.59%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.06%) Citrix
10 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.06%) Databricks
10 2 (1.06%) FIS
10 2 (1.06%) Reuters
10 2 (1.06%) Splunk
10 2 (1.06%) Sybase
10 2 (1.06%) Vermilion