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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 232 319
Rank change year-on-year -190 +87 -25
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 183 336 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.08% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 3.30% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 296 289
10th Percentile £500 £588 £573
25th Percentile £594 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.85%
75th Percentile £840 £888 £844
90th Percentile £973 £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 13,269 10,185 13,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.92% 32.75% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,400 6,061 9,016
10th Percentile £268 £263 £255
25th Percentile £402 £405 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 309 819
10th Percentile £15.22 £19.71 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.15 £16.69
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +8.98% +42.83%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.44 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.24 £32.50 £33.61
% change year-on-year -10.03% -3.29% +58.07%

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 8 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 8 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 -177 178 £750 +3.45% 43
London -109 176 £750 +3.45% 42
Work from Home -143 59 £750 +3.45% 23
UK excluding London -66 5 £494 -5.95% 7
Northern Ireland -2 3 £494 +64.58% 1
North of England -64 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 12 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.37%) Apache
3 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.37%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.28%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.09%) Summit
5 1 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.55%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.55%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.55%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.59%) AWS
2 15 (8.20%) Snowflake
3 12 (6.56%) Azure
3 12 (6.56%) dbt
3 12 (6.56%) GCP
4 11 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (3.28%) GitHub
5 6 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.28%) SaaS
6 3 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.64%) Serverless
7 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.55%) HTTP
1 1 (0.55%) Multicast
1 1 (0.55%) RTMP
1 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.55%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.65%) KDB
1 14 (7.65%) Kdb+
1 14 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (6.56%) Apache Arrow
2 12 (6.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 12 (6.56%) Dremio
3 9 (4.92%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.37%) Apache Ignite
4 8 (4.37%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.28%) Flink
6 3 (1.64%) Power BI
7 2 (1.09%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.09%) Metadata
7 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.10%) JIRA
2 7 (3.83%) Git
3 6 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.73%) QUnit
5 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (1.09%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Mocha
6 1 (0.55%) Mockito
6 1 (0.55%) MSTest
6 1 (0.55%) NUnit
6 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.55%) Selenium
6 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.55%) tSQLt
General
1 121 (66.12%) Finance
2 100 (54.64%) Front Office
3 66 (36.07%) Banking
4 61 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 41 (22.40%) Investment Banking
6 37 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (8.74%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.37%) Back Office
9 6 (3.28%) Legal
10 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (37.70%) Developer
2 39 (21.31%) Business Analyst
3 35 (19.13%) Analyst
4 32 (17.49%) Senior
5 26 (14.21%) Software Engineer
6 24 (13.11%) Python Developer
7 22 (12.02%) Python Engineer
8 19 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.65%) Java Developer
11 13 (7.10%) AWS Software Engineer
11 13 (7.10%) Lead
11 13 (7.10%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (6.56%) Quantitative Developer
13 11 (6.01%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 11 (6.01%) Java Engineer
13 11 (6.01%) Project Manager
13 11 (6.01%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (5.46%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.57%) Kafka
1 23 (12.57%) React
2 16 (8.74%) Node.js
3 15 (8.20%) NumPy
3 15 (8.20%) Pandas
4 14 (7.65%) REST
5 13 (7.10%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (7.10%) Redux
6 12 (6.56%) SciPy
7 10 (5.46%) HTML
8 8 (4.37%) .NET
8 8 (4.37%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.37%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.37%) gRPC
8 8 (4.37%) Protocol Buffers
9 7 (3.83%) HTML5
9 7 (3.83%) XML
10 6 (3.28%) Dask
10 6 (3.28%) Vue
11 5 (2.73%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 69 (37.70%) Equities
2 56 (30.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (29.51%) Derivative
4 20 (10.93%) Algorithms
5 15 (8.20%) Hedge funds
6 13 (7.10%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.10%) Data Structures
7 11 (6.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (5.46%) Reference Data
9 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
10 8 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (4.37%) Pricing Data
11 5 (2.73%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.64%) Market Risk
14 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.85%) Linux
2 13 (7.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.96%) Agile
2 46 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (21.86%) Electronic Trading
4 36 (19.67%) Investment Management
5 34 (18.58%) Software Engineering
6 30 (16.39%) Risk Management
7 28 (15.30%) Analytics
7 28 (15.30%) Asset Management
8 26 (14.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (12.57%) CI/CD
10 20 (10.93%) AI
10 20 (10.93%) Fintech
10 20 (10.93%) Low Latency
11 19 (10.38%) DevOps
12 17 (9.29%) SDLC
13 16 (8.74%) Order Management
14 15 (8.20%) Mathematics
14 15 (8.20%) Portfolio Management
14 15 (8.20%) Quantitative Finance
15 14 (7.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (46.99%) Python
2 51 (27.87%) SQL
3 40 (21.86%) Java
4 33 (18.03%) JavaScript
5 28 (15.30%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.37%) Go
7 6 (3.28%) C#
8 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.19%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) Perl
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.09%) Tcl
10 2 (1.09%) VBA
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.57%) Degree
2 10 (5.46%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.28%) PhD
4 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.09%) CISM
5 2 (1.09%) CISSP
5 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CFA
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.20%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.19%) MiFID
4 3 (1.64%) GDPR
4 3 (1.64%) IFRS
5 2 (1.09%) EMIR
5 2 (1.09%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) Basel III
6 1 (0.55%) GAAP
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.28%) Argo
2 6 (3.28%) Terraform
3 5 (2.73%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.19%) Ansible
5 2 (1.09%) Kibana
5 2 (1.09%) logstash
6 1 (0.55%) Grafana
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (9.84%) ION Trading
2 11 (6.01%) Bloomberg
2 11 (6.01%) Murex
3 8 (4.37%) Charles River
4 7 (3.83%) Oracle
5 6 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.73%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.19%) Databricks
7 4 (2.19%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.64%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.64%) Solace
8 3 (1.64%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.09%) Citrix
9 2 (1.09%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.09%) FIS
9 2 (1.09%) Reuters
9 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) Sybase
9 2 (1.09%) Vermilion