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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 236 297
Rank change year-on-year -167 +61 +13
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 202 344 321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.13% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.39% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 302 297
10th Percentile £500 £588 £558
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +1.52%
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 13,857 10,139 13,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 33.29% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,748 6,163 8,612
10th Percentile £279 £274 £256
25th Percentile £406 £406 £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 -4.25% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 647 321 820
10th Percentile £15.43 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.59 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £33.54 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +11.21% +34.09%
75th Percentile £64.67 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.95 £82.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% +45.98%

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 25 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 25 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 -173 198 £750 +3.45% 40
London -113 196 £750 +3.45% 39
Work from Home -139 76 £750 +3.45% 26
UK excluding London -81 4 £500 -4.76% 9
Northern Ireland -7 2 £500 +66.67% 1
North of England -61 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 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.97%) Confluence
3 5 (2.48%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.97%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (1.49%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.99%) 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 (33.66%) AWS
2 26 (12.87%) GCP
3 22 (10.89%) Azure
4 14 (6.93%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.96%) dbt
7 6 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.97%) GitHub
7 6 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.97%) SaaS
8 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.99%) Serverless
10 1 (0.50%) Collibra
10 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.50%) npm
10 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 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 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.45%) KDB
2 11 (5.45%) Kdb+
3 8 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.96%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (3.96%) Dremio
3 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.97%) Flink
6 5 (2.48%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (0.99%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.99%) Metadata
7 2 (0.99%) Power BI
7 2 (0.99%) Power Query
7 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.44%) JIRA
2 8 (3.96%) Git
3 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.49%) QUnit
4 3 (1.49%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.99%) 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
1 137 (67.82%) Finance
2 117 (57.92%) Front Office
3 65 (32.18%) Banking
4 57 (28.22%) Social Skills
5 40 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (18.81%) Investment Banking
7 17 (8.42%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.96%) Back Office
9 5 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.48%) Legal
10 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) 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 (45.54%) Developer
2 44 (21.78%) Software Engineer
3 39 (19.31%) Business Analyst
4 36 (17.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 33 (16.34%) Analyst
6 32 (15.84%) Lead
7 27 (13.37%) Lead Developer
7 27 (13.37%) Python Developer
8 25 (12.38%) Senior
9 24 (11.88%) Lead Software Developer
9 24 (11.88%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (10.89%) Python Engineer
11 18 (8.91%) Java Developer
12 16 (7.92%) React Developer
13 15 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.44%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (5.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 12 (5.94%) Java Engineer
15 12 (5.94%) Senior Developer
16 11 (5.45%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.28%) React
2 41 (20.30%) Kafka
3 39 (19.31%) Node.js
4 37 (18.32%) Redux
5 24 (11.88%) GraphQL
6 14 (6.93%) Pandas
7 13 (6.44%) NumPy
7 13 (6.44%) REST
8 12 (5.94%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.46%) Vue
11 8 (3.96%) .NET
11 8 (3.96%) HTML
11 8 (3.96%) SciPy
12 7 (3.47%) XML
13 6 (2.97%) Dask
14 5 (2.48%) CSS
14 5 (2.48%) gRPC
14 5 (2.48%) HTML5
14 5 (2.48%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 73 (36.14%) Equities
2 59 (29.21%) Derivative
3 51 (25.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.42%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.44%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.45%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.45%) Hedge funds
6 11 (5.45%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.48%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.98%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.99%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.86%) Linux
2 11 (5.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.14%) Agile
2 56 (27.72%) Investment Management
3 53 (26.24%) Software Engineering
4 47 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (20.79%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (19.80%) Portfolio Management
7 34 (16.83%) Asset Management
8 30 (14.85%) Order Management
9 28 (13.86%) Risk Management
10 27 (13.37%) Fintech
11 26 (12.87%) Analytics
12 24 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (11.39%) CI/CD
14 22 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (9.90%) DevOps
16 19 (9.41%) Low Latency
17 18 (8.91%) AI
18 17 (8.42%) Mentoring
19 16 (7.92%) Machine Learning
20 15 (7.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 106 (52.48%) Python
2 55 (27.23%) SQL
3 53 (26.24%) Java
4 52 (25.74%) JavaScript
5 50 (24.75%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.88%) Go
7 7 (3.47%) C#
8 5 (2.48%) C++
8 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.98%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.49%) VBA
11 2 (0.99%) Perl
11 2 (0.99%) Tcl
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.88%) Degree
2 10 (4.95%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.97%) PhD
4 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.99%) CISM
5 2 (0.99%) CISSP
5 2 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) 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 (7.43%) QA
2 9 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.49%) GDPR
3 3 (1.49%) IFRS
4 2 (0.99%) MiFID
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
4 2 (0.99%) 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 (5.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.97%) Argo
2 6 (2.97%) Terraform
3 5 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) logstash
6 1 (0.50%) Grafana
6 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.91%) ION Trading
2 15 (7.43%) Murex
3 13 (6.44%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.95%) Charles River
5 7 (3.47%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.47%) Oracle
6 5 (2.48%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.98%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.49%) Databricks
8 3 (1.49%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.49%) Solace
8 3 (1.49%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.99%) Citrix
9 2 (0.99%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.99%) FIS
9 2 (0.99%) Reuters
9 2 (0.99%) Splunk
9 2 (0.99%) Sybase
9 2 (0.99%) Vermilion