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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 234 309
Rank change year-on-year -186 +75 -21
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 173 344 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.10% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 3.36% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 302 289
10th Percentile £500 £588 £594
25th Percentile £581 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £741 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% - -
75th Percentile £838 £888 £844
90th Percentile £975 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.95% -8.70% -4.17%
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 13,108 10,229 13,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 32.57% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,288 6,072 9,003
10th Percentile £275 £263 £255
25th Percentile £403 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 621 310 779
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £23.89 £17.17
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.10 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.90 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.52 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.32% -8.45% +69.33%

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 1 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 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 1 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 -176 166 £750 +3.45% 35
London -119 164 £750 +3.45% 34
Work from Home -151 51 £750 +3.45% 12
UK excluding London -60 6 £494 -5.95% 6
Northern Ireland -2 3 £494 +64.58%
North of England -58 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Scotland +7 1 - -

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 14 (8.09%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.20%) Apache
3 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.62%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.47%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.73%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.16%) Summit
5 1 (0.58%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.58%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.58%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.58%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.58%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.65%) AWS
2 16 (9.25%) Snowflake
3 14 (8.09%) dbt
4 10 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.62%) Azure
6 7 (4.05%) GCP
7 6 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.47%) GitHub
7 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.47%) SaaS
8 3 (1.73%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.16%) Serverless
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.58%) Collibra
10 1 (0.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
1 1 (0.58%) Multicast
1 1 (0.58%) RTMP
1 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.58%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.67%) KDB
1 15 (8.67%) Kdb+
2 14 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (8.09%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (8.09%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (8.09%) Dremio
3 10 (5.78%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.20%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.47%) Flink
7 3 (1.73%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.16%) Metadata
8 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) JIRA
2 7 (4.05%) Git
3 6 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.89%) QUnit
5 2 (1.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Mockito
6 1 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (64.74%) Finance
2 92 (53.18%) Front Office
3 67 (38.73%) Banking
4 59 (34.10%) Social Skills
5 41 (23.70%) Investment Banking
6 35 (20.23%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (10.98%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.62%) Back Office
9 6 (3.47%) Legal
10 4 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (34.68%) Developer
2 36 (20.81%) Business Analyst
3 34 (19.65%) Analyst
4 31 (17.92%) Senior
5 24 (13.87%) Python Developer
5 24 (13.87%) Python Engineer
6 20 (11.56%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Software Engineer
8 15 (8.67%) Python Software Engineer
8 15 (8.67%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.09%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (6.94%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.94%) Quantitative Developer
11 11 (6.36%) Project Manager
11 11 (6.36%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (5.78%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 10 (5.78%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 10 (5.78%) Java Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.83%) NumPy
1 17 (9.83%) Pandas
2 16 (9.25%) Kafka
3 14 (8.09%) SciPy
4 13 (7.51%) FIX Protocol
4 13 (7.51%) REST
5 12 (6.94%) React
6 9 (5.20%) gRPC
6 9 (5.20%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (4.62%) .NET
7 8 (4.62%) HTML
8 7 (4.05%) XML
9 6 (3.47%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.47%) Dask
9 6 (3.47%) HTML5
10 5 (2.89%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.89%) Node.js
10 5 (2.89%) Vue
11 4 (2.31%) CSS
11 4 (2.31%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 66 (38.15%) Equities
2 60 (34.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (29.48%) Derivative
4 19 (10.98%) Algorithms
5 16 (9.25%) Hedge funds
6 13 (7.51%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.51%) Data Structures
7 11 (6.36%) Product Ownership
7 11 (6.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.20%) Pricing Data
8 9 (5.20%) Reference Data
9 8 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.89%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (2.31%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.76%) Linux
2 13 (7.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (24.86%) Agile
1 43 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (22.54%) Electronic Trading
3 32 (18.50%) Risk Management
4 30 (17.34%) Analytics
5 26 (15.03%) Asset Management
5 26 (15.03%) Investment Management
5 26 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
7 23 (13.29%) CI/CD
8 20 (11.56%) Low Latency
9 19 (10.98%) AI
10 18 (10.40%) DevOps
11 17 (9.83%) Fintech
11 17 (9.83%) SDLC
12 15 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (8.67%) Mathematics
12 15 (8.67%) Quantitative Finance
13 14 (8.09%) Computer Science
13 14 (8.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 79 (45.66%) Python
2 50 (28.90%) SQL
3 32 (18.50%) Java
4 22 (12.72%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.05%) C#
7 5 (2.89%) C++
7 5 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.16%) Perl
8 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.16%) Tcl
8 2 (1.16%) VBA
9 1 (0.58%) Bash
9 1 (0.58%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (13.87%) Degree
2 10 (5.78%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.47%) PhD
4 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.16%) CISM
5 2 (1.16%) CISSP
5 2 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) CFA
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.51%) QA
2 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.31%) MiFID
4 3 (1.73%) GDPR
4 3 (1.73%) IFRS
5 2 (1.16%) EMIR
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) GAAP
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.47%) Argo
2 6 (3.47%) Terraform
3 5 (2.89%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Grafana
5 2 (1.16%) Kibana
5 2 (1.16%) logstash
6 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (9.83%) ION Trading
2 10 (5.78%) Bloomberg
3 9 (5.20%) Murex
4 8 (4.62%) Charles River
5 6 (3.47%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.47%) Oracle
6 5 (2.89%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.31%) Databricks
7 4 (2.31%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.73%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.73%) Solace
8 3 (1.73%) Splunk
8 3 (1.73%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.16%) Citrix
9 2 (1.16%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.16%) FIS
9 2 (1.16%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.58%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.58%) Sybase