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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 231 315
Rank change year-on-year -171 +84 -45
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 195 366 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 3.42% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 321 284
10th Percentile £495 £588 £600
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £965 £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 12,851 10,709 13,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 32.08% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,056 6,384 8,932
10th Percentile £280 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% -3.86% -
75th Percentile £630 £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 623 328 513
10th Percentile £13.96 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.33 £33.65 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -20.25% +27.85%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £77.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.11
% change year-on-year -16.28% -27.95% +73.48%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -155 188 £750 +7.14% 55
London -96 186 £750 +5.26% 55
Work from Home -117 74 £750 -3.23% 12
UK excluding London -44 7 £494 -5.95% 5
Northern Ireland -9 3 £494 +64.58%
Scotland +11 2 - -
North of England -48 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 31 (15.90%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.28%) Apache
3 6 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.67%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.08%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.56%) ION MarketView
4 4 (2.05%) thinkFolio
5 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (1.03%) BondVision
6 1 (0.51%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.72%) AWS
2 31 (15.90%) dbt
3 27 (13.85%) Snowflake
4 17 (8.72%) Azure
5 10 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.13%) GCP
6 6 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.08%) GitHub
6 6 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.56%) Serverless
8 4 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.03%) SaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Multicast
1 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.03%) tcpdump
1 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.90%) Amazon Athena
1 31 (15.90%) Apache Arrow
1 31 (15.90%) Apache Iceberg
1 31 (15.90%) Dremio
2 23 (11.79%) Data Lake
3 22 (11.28%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (8.21%) KDB
5 14 (7.18%) Kdb+
6 13 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.08%) Flink
9 5 (2.56%) Power BI
10 4 (2.05%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.03%) Tableau
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (6.15%) JIRA
2 7 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.08%) Git
4 5 (2.56%) QUnit
5 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.03%) GitLab
6 2 (1.03%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 140 (71.79%) Finance
2 111 (56.92%) Front Office
3 77 (39.49%) Banking
4 60 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 53 (27.18%) Investment Banking
6 30 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (11.28%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.62%) Back Office
9 5 (2.56%) Legal
9 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (34.87%) Developer
2 43 (22.05%) Senior
3 40 (20.51%) Python Engineer
3 40 (20.51%) Software Engineer
4 37 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (16.41%) Python Software Engineer
6 31 (15.90%) Analyst
6 31 (15.90%) AWS Software Engineer
7 30 (15.38%) Business Analyst
8 28 (14.36%) Python Developer
9 24 (12.31%) Java Engineer
9 24 (12.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (10.77%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (10.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 21 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (8.72%) Senior Developer
12 15 (7.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 13 (6.67%) Java Developer
14 12 (6.15%) Project Manager
14 12 (6.15%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.90%) NumPy
1 31 (15.90%) Pandas
1 31 (15.90%) SciPy
2 24 (12.31%) React
3 23 (11.79%) Kafka
4 22 (11.28%) gRPC
4 22 (11.28%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (9.23%) REST
6 17 (8.72%) FIX Protocol
7 15 (7.69%) Node.js
8 13 (6.67%) .NET
9 9 (4.62%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.62%) Vue
10 7 (3.59%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.59%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.59%) Redux
11 6 (3.08%) Dask
11 6 (3.08%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.08%) HTML
12 4 (2.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 83 (42.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (42.05%) Equities
3 65 (33.33%) Derivative
4 31 (15.90%) Hedge funds
5 22 (11.28%) Pricing Data
6 19 (9.74%) Algorithms
7 16 (8.21%) Cloud Native
8 15 (7.69%) Product Ownership
9 13 (6.67%) Data Structures
10 11 (5.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (4.62%) Reference Data
13 7 (3.59%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
15 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
16 3 (1.54%) Credit Risk
16 3 (1.54%) Market Risk
17 2 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
17 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.41%) Linux
2 11 (5.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.41%) Agile
2 53 (27.18%) Software Engineering
3 50 (25.64%) Investment Management
4 40 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 39 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
6 31 (15.90%) Risk Management
7 27 (13.85%) Analytics
7 27 (13.85%) DevOps
8 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (11.28%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.28%) Low Latency
10 21 (10.77%) Fintech
10 21 (10.77%) Order Management
11 18 (9.23%) Computer Science
12 16 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (8.21%) Multithreading
13 14 (7.18%) Design Patterns
13 14 (7.18%) Quantitative Finance
13 14 (7.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.28%) Python
2 53 (27.18%) SQL
3 48 (24.62%) Java
4 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.51%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.18%) C#
7 8 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.59%) Go
9 5 (2.56%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) Bash
10 2 (1.03%) Perl
10 2 (1.03%) Tcl
10 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.03%) VBA
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.82%) Degree
2 11 (5.64%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.08%) PhD
5 2 (1.03%) CISM
5 2 (1.03%) CISSP
5 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) QA
2 11 (5.64%) MiFID
3 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.05%) EMIR
5 2 (1.03%) Basel III
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.62%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (3.08%) Argo
4 4 (2.05%) Ansible
4 4 (2.05%) Kibana
4 4 (2.05%) logstash
4 4 (2.05%) Terraform
5 3 (1.54%) Grafana
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.51%) BladeLogic
7 1 (0.51%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (9.23%) ION Trading
2 15 (7.69%) Murex
3 14 (7.18%) Bloomberg
4 8 (4.10%) Tradeweb
5 7 (3.59%) Databricks
6 6 (3.08%) Charles River
6 6 (3.08%) MarketAxess
6 6 (3.08%) Solace
7 5 (2.56%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.56%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.05%) Portware
9 3 (1.54%) Reuters
9 3 (1.54%) Splunk
10 2 (1.03%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.03%) CQG
10 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (1.03%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.51%) Calypso
11 1 (0.51%) Sybase