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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 229 316
Rank change year-on-year -170 +87 -54
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 180 354 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.09% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 3.40% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 311 285
10th Percentile £488 £588 £600
25th Percentile £606 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £831 £856 £850
90th Percentile £975 £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 12,708 10,402 13,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.53% 32.10% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,992 6,179 8,908
10th Percentile £281 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £626 £656 £663
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 619 324 529
10th Percentile £14.22 £18.06 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.30 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £33.27 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -16.83% +34.59%
75th Percentile £61.54 £64.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -26.97% +87.05%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -170 173 £750 +7.14% 47
London -103 171 £750 +7.14% 39
Work from Home -125 63 £750 +3.45% 9
UK excluding London -51 7 £494 -5.95% 12
Northern Ireland -11 3 £494 +64.58%
Scotland +3 2 - -
North of England -49 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 28 (15.56%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (11.11%) Apache
3 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.78%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.67%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.11%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.11%) BondVision
4 2 (1.11%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.56%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.56%) AWS
2 28 (15.56%) dbt
3 25 (13.89%) Snowflake
4 12 (6.67%) Azure
5 10 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.00%) GCP
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.33%) GitHub
7 6 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.67%) Serverless
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.11%) SaaS
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.56%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Firewall
1 1 (0.56%) Multicast
1 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.56%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.56%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (15.56%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (15.56%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (15.56%) Dremio
2 21 (11.67%) Data Lake
3 20 (11.11%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (8.89%) KDB
5 14 (7.78%) Kdb+
6 12 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.33%) Flink
9 4 (2.22%) Power BI
9 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.11%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.56%) Big Data
12 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.67%) JIRA
2 6 (3.33%) Git
2 6 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.78%) QUnit
4 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (1.11%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 126 (70.00%) Finance
2 101 (56.11%) Front Office
3 70 (38.89%) Banking
4 53 (29.44%) Social Skills
5 46 (25.56%) Investment Banking
6 30 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (10.56%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.44%) Back Office
9 5 (2.78%) Legal
9 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (34.44%) Developer
2 41 (22.78%) Senior
3 37 (20.56%) Python Engineer
4 34 (18.89%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (17.22%) Software Engineer
6 29 (16.11%) Analyst
6 29 (16.11%) Python Developer
6 29 (16.11%) Python Software Engineer
7 28 (15.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (15.56%) Business Analyst
8 20 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 20 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 19 (10.56%) Senior Java Engineer
9 19 (10.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 19 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (9.44%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.67%) Project Manager
11 12 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
12 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
12 11 (6.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.56%) NumPy
1 28 (15.56%) Pandas
1 28 (15.56%) SciPy
2 20 (11.11%) gRPC
2 20 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
3 16 (8.89%) Kafka
3 16 (8.89%) React
3 16 (8.89%) REST
4 13 (7.22%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (5.56%) .NET
6 8 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.44%) Node.js
6 8 (4.44%) Vue
7 6 (3.33%) Dask
7 6 (3.33%) HTML
8 5 (2.78%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.22%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.22%) HTML5
9 4 (2.22%) XML
10 3 (1.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 78 (43.33%) Equities
2 75 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (33.33%) Derivative
4 28 (15.56%) Hedge funds
5 20 (11.11%) Pricing Data
6 19 (10.56%) Algorithms
7 13 (7.22%) Cloud Native
7 13 (7.22%) Data Structures
7 13 (7.22%) Product Ownership
8 11 (6.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 10 (5.56%) Reference Data
10 7 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.67%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.67%) Market Risk
14 2 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (6.11%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Agile
2 43 (23.89%) Software Engineering
3 41 (22.78%) Investment Management
4 39 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (20.56%) Electronic Trading
6 36 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 30 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 27 (15.00%) Analytics
9 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (11.67%) DevOps
11 20 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 20 (11.11%) Fintech
11 20 (11.11%) Low Latency
12 15 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (7.78%) AI
13 14 (7.78%) Multithreading
13 14 (7.78%) Quantitative Finance
13 14 (7.78%) SDLC
14 13 (7.22%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 93 (51.67%) Python
2 49 (27.22%) SQL
3 40 (22.22%) Java
4 35 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 31 (17.22%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.11%) C#
7 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.78%) C++
9 2 (1.11%) Perl
9 2 (1.11%) Tcl
9 2 (1.11%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (12.22%) Degree
2 10 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.33%) PhD
4 2 (1.11%) CISM
4 2 (1.11%) CISSP
4 2 (1.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.89%) MiFID
3 3 (1.67%) EMIR
4 2 (1.11%) NIST
4 2 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.56%) Basel III
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (7.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (3.33%) Argo
4 4 (2.22%) Ansible
4 4 (2.22%) Terraform
5 3 (1.67%) Kibana
5 3 (1.67%) logstash
6 2 (1.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) BladeLogic
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 14 (7.78%) Bloomberg
3 13 (7.22%) Murex
4 8 (4.44%) Tradeweb
5 6 (3.33%) Charles River
5 6 (3.33%) Databricks
5 6 (3.33%) MarketAxess
6 4 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.22%) Solace
6 4 (2.22%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.67%) Reuters
7 3 (1.67%) Splunk
8 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.11%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle
8 2 (1.11%) Portware
9 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.56%) FIS
9 1 (0.56%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.56%) Refinitiv