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 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 217 307
Rank change year-on-year -134 +90 -49
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 249 411 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.13% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 3.61% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 362 320
10th Percentile £513 £588 £550
25th Percentile £623 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £706
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +13.31% -2.62%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £844
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £563 £640
% change year-on-year -12.22% -12.11% +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 12,880 11,377 14,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.74% 31.19% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,973 6,698 9,731
10th Percentile £275 £285 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £784 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 678 382 496
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.87 £16.89
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.11 £35.13 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% -21.07% +27.14%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.26% -24.21% +56.54%

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 26 November 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 10 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 26 November 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 -117 238 £750 -6.25% 110
London -71 235 £750 -6.25% 35
Work from Home -85 109 £750 -6.25% 10
UK excluding London -36 12 £494 -12.22% 91
Northern Ireland -4 5 £500 +66.67% 1
Scotland 0 4 - - 6
Yorkshire -34 2 - - 7
North of England -48 2 - - 15
East Midlands - 1 £375 - 6
Midlands - 1 £375 - 14

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 49 (19.68%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (12.85%) Apache
3 7 (2.81%) Confluence
4 5 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.02%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.81%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.81%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.61%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.80%) BondVision
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 87 (34.94%) AWS
2 49 (19.68%) dbt
3 37 (14.86%) Snowflake
4 29 (11.65%) Azure
5 28 (11.24%) GCP
6 11 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.01%) GitHub
9 5 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.01%) Serverless
10 4 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.80%) SaaS
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) Multicast
3 2 (0.80%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (19.68%) Amazon Athena
1 49 (19.68%) Apache Arrow
1 49 (19.68%) Apache Iceberg
1 49 (19.68%) Dremio
2 33 (13.25%) Data Lake
3 32 (12.85%) Apache Ignite
4 26 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.23%) KDB
6 13 (5.22%) Kdb+
7 12 (4.82%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.21%) Power BI
9 7 (2.81%) Data Mart
9 7 (2.81%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.01%) Flink
12 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.20%) Power Query
14 2 (0.80%) Big Data
14 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.62%) JIRA
2 8 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.01%) Git
3 5 (2.01%) QUnit
4 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 195 (78.31%) Finance
2 152 (61.04%) Front Office
3 99 (39.76%) Banking
4 68 (27.31%) Investment Banking
5 64 (25.70%) Social Skills
6 35 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (10.84%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.02%) Back Office
9 5 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.61%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (39.36%) Developer
2 78 (31.33%) Software Engineer
3 57 (22.89%) Python Engineer
4 54 (21.69%) AWS Engineer
4 54 (21.69%) Senior
5 49 (19.68%) AWS Software Engineer
5 49 (19.68%) Python Software Engineer
6 40 (16.06%) Analyst
6 40 (16.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 39 (15.66%) Java Engineer
7 39 (15.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (13.25%) Python Developer
9 32 (12.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (12.45%) Senior Java Engineer
10 31 (12.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 29 (11.65%) Business Analyst
12 20 (8.03%) Senior Developer
13 19 (7.63%) Java Developer
14 17 (6.83%) AWS Developer
15 14 (5.62%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (20.88%) NumPy
2 51 (20.48%) Pandas
2 51 (20.48%) React
3 50 (20.08%) SciPy
4 36 (14.46%) Node.js
5 32 (12.85%) gRPC
5 32 (12.85%) Protocol Buffers
6 28 (11.24%) Kafka
7 24 (9.64%) FIX Protocol
8 23 (9.24%) Redux
9 20 (8.03%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.03%) Vue
10 17 (6.83%) .NET
10 17 (6.83%) REST
11 12 (4.82%) GraphQL
12 10 (4.02%) .NET Framework
13 7 (2.81%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.81%) Middleware
14 6 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (2.01%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 121 (48.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 106 (42.57%) Equities
3 86 (34.54%) Derivative
4 45 (18.07%) Hedge funds
5 32 (12.85%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.84%) Algorithms
7 20 (8.03%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.83%) Cloud Native
9 16 (6.43%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.81%) Reference Data
11 7 (2.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.41%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.61%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.25%) Linux
2 12 (4.82%) Unix
3 5 (2.01%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (49.80%) Agile
2 96 (38.55%) Software Engineering
3 86 (34.54%) Investment Management
4 71 (28.51%) Asset Management
5 43 (17.27%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (15.66%) Fintech
7 39 (15.66%) Risk Management
8 36 (14.46%) Order Management
9 32 (12.85%) Analytics
10 31 (12.45%) DevOps
11 30 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.04%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.04%) Low Latency
13 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
14 19 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (7.63%) Scrum
15 17 (6.83%) Performance Attribution
16 16 (6.43%) Design Patterns
16 16 (6.43%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 140 (56.22%) Python
2 78 (31.33%) JavaScript
3 74 (29.72%) TypeScript
4 73 (29.32%) Java
5 60 (24.10%) SQL
6 24 (9.64%) C#
7 15 (6.02%) Go
8 12 (4.82%) C++
9 11 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Bash
11 2 (0.80%) Tcl
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.44%) Degree
2 13 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.02%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.01%) PhD
5 2 (0.80%) CISM
5 2 (0.80%) CISSP
5 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.80%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
6 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.22%) MiFID
2 10 (4.02%) QA
3 8 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.01%) EMIR
5 3 (1.20%) Basel III
6 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (6.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.82%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.41%) Kibana
3 6 (2.41%) logstash
4 5 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (2.01%) Argo
4 5 (2.01%) Grafana
5 3 (1.20%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.80%) Terraform
7 1 (0.40%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (8.43%) Murex
2 17 (6.83%) Bloomberg
2 17 (6.83%) ION Trading
3 10 (4.02%) Tradeweb
4 8 (3.21%) Solace
5 7 (2.81%) Databricks
5 7 (2.81%) Reuters
5 7 (2.81%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.41%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.41%) Oracle
7 5 (2.01%) Charles River
7 5 (2.01%) MarketAxess
8 4 (1.61%) Portware
8 4 (1.61%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) CQG
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.80%) Calypso
10 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics