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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 214 210
Rank change year-on-year -204 -4 +87
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 214 381 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.30% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.40% 3.82% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 343 453
10th Percentile £524 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £888 £938 £898
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 15,307 9,975 12,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.92% 33.94% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,494 6,359 8,316
10th Percentile £313 £300 £267
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £739 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +0.26% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 732 397 899
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.87 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £20.75 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.76 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% +0.83% +40.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.35 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £30.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.43% +1.30% +36.36%

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 18 May 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 6 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 18 May 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 -200 211 £750 - 45
London -114 210 £750 - 41
Work from Home -182 73 £750 - 13
UK excluding London -102 2 £600 +9.09% 11
Northern Ireland -1 1 £475 -13.64%
South West - 1 £725 - 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 2 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.80%) Summit
3 5 (2.34%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.93%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (35.51%) AWS
2 32 (14.95%) GCP
3 29 (13.55%) Azure
4 11 (5.14%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.34%) GitHub
6 5 (2.34%) Serverless
7 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.87%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.87%) SaaS
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.93%) Collibra
9 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.93%) HTTP
1 2 (0.93%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.21%) Metadata
5 6 (2.80%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.34%) KDB
6 5 (2.34%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.87%) Power BI
7 4 (1.87%) Tableau
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) Flink
8 2 (0.93%) Power Query
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Jenkins
1 7 (3.27%) JIRA
2 6 (2.80%) Git
3 4 (1.87%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.87%) ERwin
3 4 (1.87%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.93%) Maven
4 2 (0.93%) Mocha
4 2 (0.93%) MSTest
4 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.93%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.47%) Mockito
5 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.47%) Selenium
5 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 136 (63.55%) Finance
2 120 (56.07%) Front Office
3 72 (33.64%) Banking
4 50 (23.36%) Social Skills
5 41 (19.16%) Investment Banking
6 32 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (9.35%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.87%) Back Office
9 4 (1.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 109 (50.93%) Developer
2 53 (24.77%) Software Engineer
3 47 (21.96%) Lead
4 44 (20.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 41 (19.16%) Analyst
5 41 (19.16%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.29%) Lead Developer
7 34 (15.89%) Java Developer
7 34 (15.89%) Senior
8 32 (14.95%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (14.95%) Lead Software Engineer
9 23 (10.75%) Python Developer
9 23 (10.75%) React Developer
10 21 (9.81%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 21 (9.81%) Senior Developer
11 16 (7.48%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 15 (7.01%) Python Engineer
12 15 (7.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.67%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.10%) React
2 55 (25.70%) Redux
3 50 (23.36%) Node.js
4 43 (20.09%) Kafka
5 33 (15.42%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.01%) .NET
7 12 (5.61%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.74%) Vue
8 8 (3.74%) XML
9 7 (3.27%) Pandas
9 7 (3.27%) REST
10 6 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.80%) HTML
10 6 (2.80%) NumPy
10 6 (2.80%) RESTful
11 4 (1.87%) HTML5
11 4 (1.87%) Reactive Extensions
11 4 (1.87%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.97%) Equities
2 55 (25.70%) Derivative
3 46 (21.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.48%) Reference Data
5 14 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.67%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.74%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.74%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.27%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.34%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (2.34%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.35%) Linux
2 15 (7.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.51%) Agile
2 61 (28.50%) Software Engineering
3 56 (26.17%) Investment Management
4 54 (25.23%) Electronic Trading
5 53 (24.77%) Portfolio Management
6 41 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (16.36%) Order Management
8 34 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (14.95%) Low Latency
10 31 (14.49%) Asset Management
11 30 (14.02%) CI/CD
12 28 (13.08%) Analytics
13 27 (12.62%) Mentoring
14 25 (11.68%) AI
15 23 (10.75%) Fintech
16 21 (9.81%) Risk Management
17 20 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
18 18 (8.41%) Machine Learning
18 18 (8.41%) Test Automation
19 17 (7.94%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (48.13%) Python
2 76 (35.51%) Java
3 61 (28.50%) JavaScript
4 59 (27.57%) TypeScript
5 53 (24.77%) SQL
6 32 (14.95%) Go
7 13 (6.07%) C#
8 8 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.87%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) Perl
11 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.81%) Degree
2 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.47%) ACCA
4 1 (0.47%) CFA
4 1 (0.47%) CISA
4 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.47%) PMP
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.61%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) MiFID
3 3 (1.40%) IFRS
4 2 (0.93%) EMIR
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) GridGain
2 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.27%) Terraform
3 5 (2.34%) Ansible
4 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.93%) Argo
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) Kibana
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.94%) Murex
2 15 (7.01%) Oracle
3 10 (4.67%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.74%) Charles River
4 8 (3.74%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.87%) Solace
6 4 (1.87%) Sybase
7 3 (1.40%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.93%) Citrix
8 2 (0.93%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.93%) Reuters
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Splunk
8 2 (0.93%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) FIS
9 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty