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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 221 189
Rank change year-on-year -189 -32 +88
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 252 366 549
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.20% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 3.46% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 323 521
10th Percentile £500 £538 £563
25th Percentile £650 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £875
90th Percentile £938 - £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £875 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +66.67% -19.23% +4.00%

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 16,850 10,570 13,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.83% 34.54% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,306 6,585 8,276
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 860 488 927
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.97 £15.32
Median hourly rate £42.15 £31.29 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +34.73% -12.24% +58.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.52 £62.25
90th Percentile £86.34 £79.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.50 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.13% -14.27% +58.11%

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 30 June 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 12 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 30 June 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 -176 243 £750 - 31
London -117 231 £750 - 31
Work from Home -183 74 £750 - 17
UK excluding London -90 17 £875 +66.67% 10
North of England -72 6 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 -
Northern Ireland 0 3 £363 -32.56% 3
Scotland -13 2 £875 -
North West - 2 £875 -
Midlands -60 1 £875 +133.33%
West Midlands - 1 £875 -

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 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.56%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.38%) Summit
3 5 (1.98%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.79%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.40%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.40%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.56%) AWS
2 36 (14.29%) GCP
3 33 (13.10%) Azure
4 12 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.17%) Serverless
6 6 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.98%) SaaS
8 4 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.19%) Datadog
9 3 (1.19%) GitHub
10 2 (0.79%) Collibra
10 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) Multicast
2 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.37%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.57%) Metadata
5 6 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.98%) KDB
6 5 (1.98%) Kdb+
6 5 (1.98%) Power BI
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.59%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) Power Query
9 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.37%) JIRA
2 7 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.59%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.59%) ERwin
3 4 (1.59%) Git
3 4 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (1.19%) Mocha
4 3 (1.19%) MSTest
4 3 (1.19%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.79%) JMeter
5 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.79%) Maven
5 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Mockito
6 1 (0.40%) NUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 169 (67.06%) Finance
2 164 (65.08%) Front Office
3 106 (42.06%) Banking
4 72 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 52 (20.63%) Social Skills
6 35 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.35%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.38%) Back Office
9 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Law
9 4 (1.59%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 133 (52.78%) Developer
2 63 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 60 (23.81%) Software Engineer
4 59 (23.41%) Senior
5 52 (20.63%) Lead
5 52 (20.63%) React Developer
6 49 (19.44%) Analyst
7 45 (17.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 45 (17.86%) Senior Developer
8 44 (17.46%) Business Analyst
9 42 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (15.08%) Lead Developer
11 37 (14.68%) UI Developer
12 32 (12.70%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (12.70%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (12.30%) Senior React Developer
13 31 (12.30%) Senior UI Developer
14 20 (7.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 16 (6.35%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (37.30%) React
2 90 (35.71%) Redux
3 56 (22.22%) Node.js
4 39 (15.48%) Kafka
5 33 (13.10%) GraphQL
6 19 (7.54%) .NET
7 13 (5.16%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.37%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.17%) Vue
10 7 (2.78%) HTML
10 7 (2.78%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.78%) Pandas
10 7 (2.78%) XML
11 6 (2.38%) NumPy
11 6 (2.38%) RESTful
12 5 (1.98%) CSS
13 4 (1.59%) HTML5
13 4 (1.59%) Middleware
13 4 (1.59%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 90 (35.71%) Equities
2 80 (31.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (23.02%) Derivative
4 33 (13.10%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (5.16%) Market Risk
7 12 (4.76%) Reference Data
8 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.78%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.98%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.59%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.54%) Linux
2 17 (6.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.11%) Agile
2 78 (30.95%) Electronic Trading
3 71 (28.17%) Software Engineering
4 67 (26.59%) Low Latency
5 60 (23.81%) Investment Management
6 52 (20.63%) Portfolio Management
7 44 (17.46%) Order Management
8 41 (16.27%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (13.89%) Asset Management
10 35 (13.89%) CI/CD
11 30 (11.90%) Analytics
12 29 (11.51%) Mentoring
13 26 (10.32%) AI
14 25 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.13%) Fintech
15 23 (9.13%) Risk Management
16 22 (8.73%) Business Analysis
17 20 (7.94%) Validation
18 19 (7.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (42.86%) Java
2 99 (39.29%) Python
3 96 (38.10%) JavaScript
4 95 (37.70%) TypeScript
5 52 (20.63%) SQL
6 45 (17.86%) C#
7 32 (12.70%) Go
8 9 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.98%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.19%) Bash
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) R
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.52%) Degree
2 12 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.59%) PhD
4 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.40%) ACCA
5 1 (0.40%) CFA
5 1 (0.40%) CISA
5 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.40%) PMP
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.17%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) IFRS
4 4 (1.59%) MiFID
5 3 (1.19%) GAAP
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.40%) EMIR
7 1 (0.40%) ITGC
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.98%) Docker
1 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.79%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.38%) Terraform
3 5 (1.98%) Ansible
4 3 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.14%) Murex
2 14 (5.56%) Oracle
3 11 (4.37%) Charles River
4 8 (3.17%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.78%) Solace
6 6 (2.38%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.98%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.98%) Sybase
8 4 (1.59%) MarketAxess
8 4 (1.59%) Tradeweb
9 3 (1.19%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.79%) FIS
10 2 (0.79%) Reuters
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.79%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.79%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.40%) Databricks
11 1 (0.40%) FactSet
11 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.40%) PagerDuty