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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 229 286
Rank change year-on-year -179 +57 +10
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 201 341 325
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.13% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.39% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 299 300
10th Percentile £500 £588 £561
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £745
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.68% +0.68%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £838
90th Percentile £909 £938 £963
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 10,049 13,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.53% 33.26% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,675 6,101 8,694
10th Percentile £278 £270 £258
25th Percentile £406 £408 £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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 318 824
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.37 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £33.77 £30.58
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.43% +36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £82.71 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +47.73%

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 24 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 24 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 -160 197 £750 +3.45% 27
London -105 195 £750 +3.45% 26
Work from Home -140 76 £750 +3.45% 13
UK excluding London -69 4 £500 -4.76% 9
Northern Ireland -5 2 £500 +66.67% 1
North of England -67 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 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.49%) Apache
3 5 (2.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.99%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (1.49%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.00%) Summit
5 1 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.50%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.83%) AWS
2 26 (12.94%) GCP
3 21 (10.45%) Azure
4 13 (6.47%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.98%) dbt
7 6 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.99%) GitHub
7 6 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.99%) SaaS
8 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.00%) Serverless
9 1 (0.50%) Collibra
9 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.50%) npm
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.50%) HTTP
1 1 (0.50%) Multicast
1 1 (0.50%) RTMP
1 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.50%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.47%) KDB
2 11 (5.47%) Kdb+
3 8 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.98%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (3.98%) Dremio
3 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.99%) Flink
6 5 (2.49%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.00%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.00%) Metadata
7 2 (1.00%) Power BI
7 2 (1.00%) Power Query
7 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.97%) JIRA
2 7 (3.48%) Git
3 6 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.49%) QUnit
5 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.50%) GitLab
6 1 (0.50%) JUnit
6 1 (0.50%) Mocha
6 1 (0.50%) Mockito
6 1 (0.50%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.50%) MSTest
6 1 (0.50%) NUnit
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 136 (67.66%) Finance
2 117 (58.21%) Front Office
3 65 (32.34%) Banking
4 57 (28.36%) Social Skills
5 40 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (18.91%) Investment Banking
7 17 (8.46%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.98%) Back Office
9 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.49%) Legal
10 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (45.77%) Developer
2 44 (21.89%) Software Engineer
3 39 (19.40%) Business Analyst
4 36 (17.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 33 (16.42%) Analyst
6 32 (15.92%) Lead
7 27 (13.43%) Lead Developer
7 27 (13.43%) Python Developer
8 25 (12.44%) Senior
9 24 (11.94%) Lead Software Developer
9 24 (11.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (10.95%) Python Engineer
11 18 (8.96%) Java Developer
12 16 (7.96%) React Developer
13 15 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.47%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (5.97%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 12 (5.97%) Java Engineer
15 12 (5.97%) Senior Developer
16 11 (5.47%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.39%) React
2 41 (20.40%) Kafka
3 39 (19.40%) Node.js
4 37 (18.41%) Redux
5 24 (11.94%) GraphQL
6 14 (6.97%) Pandas
7 13 (6.47%) NumPy
7 13 (6.47%) REST
8 12 (5.97%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (5.47%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.48%) Vue
11 8 (3.98%) .NET
11 8 (3.98%) HTML
11 8 (3.98%) SciPy
12 7 (3.48%) XML
13 6 (2.99%) Dask
14 5 (2.49%) CSS
14 5 (2.49%) gRPC
14 5 (2.49%) HTML5
14 5 (2.49%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 72 (35.82%) Equities
2 59 (29.35%) Derivative
3 51 (25.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.46%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.47%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.47%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.47%) Hedge funds
6 11 (5.47%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.49%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.99%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.99%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.00%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Linux
2 11 (5.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.82%) Agile
2 56 (27.86%) Investment Management
3 53 (26.37%) Software Engineering
4 46 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (20.90%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (19.90%) Portfolio Management
7 33 (16.42%) Asset Management
8 30 (14.93%) Order Management
9 28 (13.93%) Risk Management
10 27 (13.43%) Fintech
11 26 (12.94%) Analytics
12 24 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (11.44%) CI/CD
14 22 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (9.45%) DevOps
15 19 (9.45%) Low Latency
16 18 (8.96%) AI
17 17 (8.46%) Mentoring
18 16 (7.96%) Machine Learning
19 15 (7.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 105 (52.24%) Python
2 54 (26.87%) SQL
3 53 (26.37%) Java
4 51 (25.37%) JavaScript
5 49 (24.38%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.94%) Go
7 6 (2.99%) C#
8 5 (2.49%) C++
8 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.49%) VBA
11 2 (1.00%) Perl
11 2 (1.00%) Tcl
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.94%) Degree
2 10 (4.98%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.99%) PhD
4 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) CISM
5 2 (1.00%) CISSP
5 2 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) ACCA
6 1 (0.50%) CFA
6 1 (0.50%) CISA
6 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.49%) GDPR
3 3 (1.49%) IFRS
4 2 (1.00%) MiFID
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
4 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) Basel III
5 1 (0.50%) EMIR
5 1 (0.50%) GAAP
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.99%) Argo
2 6 (2.99%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.99%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) Kibana
5 2 (1.00%) logstash
6 1 (0.50%) Grafana
6 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.96%) ION Trading
2 15 (7.46%) Murex
3 13 (6.47%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.48%) Charles River
5 7 (3.48%) Oracle
6 6 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.49%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.99%) MarketAxess
9 3 (1.49%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.49%) Solace
9 3 (1.49%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.00%) Citrix
10 2 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks
10 2 (1.00%) FIS
10 2 (1.00%) Reuters
10 2 (1.00%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) Sybase
10 2 (1.00%) Vermilion