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 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 216 265
Rank change year-on-year -205 +49 +41
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 221 369 387
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.26% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 3.72% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 330 364
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £838 £875 £850
90th Percentile £885 £938 £946
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +9.09%
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 14,742 9,911 13,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.64% 33.91% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,264 6,346 8,603
10th Percentile £300 £291 £263
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 688 379 891
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £22.22 £15.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.20 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £31.42 £26.00
% change year-on-year +44.68% +20.85% +18.18%

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 4 April 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 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 4 April 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 -189 218 £750 +3.45% 40
London -111 215 £750 +3.45% 40
Work from Home -163 83 £750 +3.45% 10
UK excluding London -107 4 £600 +14.29% 7
North of England -72 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Northern Ireland -10 1 £475 +58.33%
South West - 1 £725 - 1

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 6 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.26%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.98%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.26%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.26%) Summit
3 4 (1.81%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.45%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.45%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.84%) AWS
2 30 (13.57%) GCP
3 29 (13.12%) Azure
4 12 (5.43%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.62%) GitHub
6 8 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.81%) SaaS
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.36%) Serverless
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.90%) Collibra
10 2 (0.90%) dbt
10 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) Multicast
2 1 (0.45%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.62%) KDB
3 8 (3.62%) Kdb+
4 7 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.71%) Flink
6 5 (2.26%) Metadata
6 5 (2.26%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.81%) Power BI
7 4 (1.81%) Tableau
8 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.90%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.90%) Dremio
9 2 (0.90%) Power Query
10 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.52%) JIRA
2 8 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.17%) Git
4 3 (1.36%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.90%) Maven
5 2 (0.90%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Mocha
6 1 (0.45%) Mockito
6 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.45%) MSTest
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 145 (65.61%) Finance
2 128 (57.92%) Front Office
3 77 (34.84%) Banking
4 58 (26.24%) Social Skills
5 44 (19.91%) Investment Banking
6 40 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.50%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.17%) Back Office
9 5 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 108 (48.87%) Developer
2 52 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 44 (19.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 44 (19.91%) Lead
4 42 (19.00%) Analyst
5 40 (18.10%) Business Analyst
6 37 (16.74%) Lead Developer
7 32 (14.48%) Java Developer
7 32 (14.48%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (14.48%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (14.03%) Senior
9 27 (12.22%) Python Developer
10 23 (10.41%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 20 (9.05%) Python Engineer
11 20 (9.05%) Senior Developer
12 19 (8.60%) React Developer
13 18 (8.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 12 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.43%) Technical Business Analyst
15 11 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.34%) React
2 53 (23.98%) Redux
3 50 (22.62%) Kafka
3 50 (22.62%) Node.js
4 32 (14.48%) GraphQL
5 13 (5.88%) .NET
6 11 (4.98%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.52%) REST
8 9 (4.07%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (4.07%) Pandas
9 8 (3.62%) NumPy
9 8 (3.62%) Vue
9 8 (3.62%) XML
10 6 (2.71%) Dask
11 5 (2.26%) HTML
11 5 (2.26%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (2.26%) RESTful
12 4 (1.81%) HTML5
12 4 (1.81%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.36%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 70 (31.67%) Equities
2 60 (27.15%) Derivative
3 44 (19.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.43%) Reference Data
6 10 (4.52%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.62%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.62%) Hedge funds
7 8 (3.62%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.17%) Market Risk
9 6 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.26%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.81%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.36%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.31%) Linux
2 15 (6.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (36.20%) Agile
2 62 (28.05%) Software Engineering
3 60 (27.15%) Investment Management
4 57 (25.79%) Electronic Trading
5 53 (23.98%) Portfolio Management
6 44 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (16.29%) Order Management
8 34 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (14.93%) Asset Management
10 29 (13.12%) CI/CD
11 27 (12.22%) Low Latency
12 26 (11.76%) Analytics
12 26 (11.76%) Fintech
13 24 (10.86%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.41%) DevOps
14 23 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (9.95%) AI
16 21 (9.50%) Risk Management
17 19 (8.60%) Machine Learning
18 17 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.04%) Python
2 76 (34.39%) Java
3 61 (27.60%) JavaScript
3 61 (27.60%) TypeScript
4 60 (27.15%) SQL
5 32 (14.48%) Go
6 10 (4.52%) C#
7 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.81%) C++
9 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.90%) Perl
9 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) Tcl
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (11.76%) Degree
2 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.62%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.71%) PhD
4 2 (0.90%) CISM
4 2 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.45%) ACCA
5 1 (0.45%) CFA
5 1 (0.45%) CISA
5 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PMP
5 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.24%) QA
2 12 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.36%) GDPR
3 3 (1.36%) IFRS
4 2 (0.90%) MiFID
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Basel III
5 1 (0.45%) EMIR
5 1 (0.45%) GAAP
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) ITGC
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 19 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.62%) Terraform
3 6 (2.71%) Argo
4 5 (2.26%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (6.79%) Murex
2 14 (6.33%) Bloomberg
2 14 (6.33%) ION Trading
3 12 (5.43%) Oracle
4 9 (4.07%) Charles River
5 8 (3.62%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.26%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.81%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.36%) Databricks
8 3 (1.36%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.36%) Sybase
9 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.90%) Citrix
9 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.90%) FIS
9 2 (0.90%) Reuters
9 2 (0.90%) Solace
9 2 (0.90%) Splunk
9 2 (0.90%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv