Fixed Income Contracts

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 209 278
Rank change year-on-year -15 +69 +21
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 352 492 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.15% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.56% 3.80% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 472 450
10th Percentile £543 £550 £525
25th Percentile £638 £650 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +1.75%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £847
90th Percentile £938 £899 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +67.79%

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 9,884 12,958 18,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.17% 30.20% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,239 8,332 12,877
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 925 610
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.80 £15.22 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.91 £34.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +55.50% -18.46%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.15 £70.82 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £21.67
% change year-on-year -2.58% +48.20% +1.98%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 8 Contract 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 May 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 -24 343 £750 -3.23% 203
London -17 339 £750 -3.23% 144
Work from Home +47 267 £725 -9.38% 71
UK excluding London +58 8 £538 -17.31% 122
Northern Ireland - 4 £538 -
Yorkshire +20 2 - - 3
North of England +12 2 - - 6
Scotland - 2 - - 4

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (20.74%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (13.64%) Apache
3 6 (1.70%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 43 (12.22%) Aladdin
2 19 (5.40%) thinkFolio
3 6 (1.70%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.57%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.28%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 136 (38.64%) AWS
2 93 (26.42%) GCP
3 71 (20.17%) dbt
4 43 (12.22%) Snowflake
5 30 (8.52%) Azure
6 5 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.42%) Dagster
6 5 (1.42%) Figma
6 5 (1.42%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.57%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.57%) Prefect
8 1 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) WAN
2 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (26.42%) Data Lake
2 71 (20.17%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (20.17%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (20.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (20.17%) Dremio
3 54 (15.34%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.09%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.56%) KDB
7 6 (1.70%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.14%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.85%) Power BI
11 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.57%) Tableau
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 12 (3.41%) JIRA
2 6 (1.70%) Git
3 4 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.28%) Gradle
5 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.28%) JUnit
5 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 312 (88.64%) Finance
2 298 (84.66%) Front Office
3 118 (33.52%) Banking
4 68 (19.32%) Investment Banking
5 45 (12.78%) Social Skills
6 21 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (5.40%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.84%) Back Office
9 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (39.49%) Developer
2 130 (36.93%) Software Engineer
3 100 (28.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 77 (21.88%) Analyst
5 71 (20.17%) AWS Engineer
5 71 (20.17%) AWS Software Engineer
6 69 (19.60%) Business Analyst
7 50 (14.20%) Python Engineer
8 49 (13.92%) Python Software Engineer
9 47 (13.35%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 46 (13.07%) AWS Developer
11 44 (12.50%) Business Manager
12 43 (12.22%) Java Engineer
12 43 (12.22%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (11.08%) Senior
14 38 (10.80%) Python Developer
15 37 (10.51%) Head of Finance
16 35 (9.94%) React Developer
17 29 (8.24%) Java Developer
18 25 (7.10%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (23.86%) React
2 61 (17.33%) Redux
3 60 (17.05%) Node.js
4 58 (16.48%) NumPy
4 58 (16.48%) Pandas
5 55 (15.63%) SciPy
6 52 (14.77%) AngularJS
7 49 (13.92%) Vue
8 32 (9.09%) gRPC
8 32 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
9 21 (5.97%) PySpark
10 9 (2.56%) .NET
10 9 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.56%) XML
11 7 (1.99%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.99%) Middleware
11 7 (1.99%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.70%) Akka.NET
13 5 (1.42%) OpenFin
14 4 (1.14%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 179 (50.85%) Derivative
2 178 (50.57%) Equities
2 178 (50.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 177 (50.28%) Hedge funds
4 27 (7.67%) Onboarding
5 20 (5.68%) Pricing Data
6 19 (5.40%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.14%) Grid Computing
10 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.11%) Linux
2 11 (3.13%) Unix
3 3 (0.85%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) Debian
5 1 (0.28%) Fedora
5 1 (0.28%) Solaris
5 1 (0.28%) SUSE
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (77.27%) Agile
2 220 (62.50%) Investment Management
3 174 (49.43%) Asset Management
4 132 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 84 (23.86%) Fintech
6 78 (22.16%) Data Management
6 78 (22.16%) Migration
7 72 (20.45%) Regulatory Compliance
8 71 (20.17%) Data Governance
9 70 (19.89%) Roadmaps
10 59 (16.76%) Analytics
10 59 (16.76%) Business Analysis
11 49 (13.92%) Performance Attribution
12 47 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
14 37 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (10.23%) Risk Management
15 36 (10.23%) TDD
15 36 (10.23%) User Experience
16 34 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 189 (53.69%) Python
2 110 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 110 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 91 (25.85%) SQL
4 76 (21.59%) Java
5 16 (4.55%) C#
6 15 (4.26%) C++
7 6 (1.70%) F#
8 4 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.85%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.85%) Perl
9 3 (0.85%) Ruby
10 2 (0.57%) Bash
10 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.57%) VBA
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (5.11%) Degree
2 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.57%) CFA
4 1 (0.28%) CBAP
4 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.95%) MiFID
2 9 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) Basel III
3 2 (0.57%) EMIR
3 2 (0.57%) PMO
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.28%) FINRA
System Software
1 3 (0.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 6 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.28%) logstash
4 1 (0.28%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (11.93%) BISAM
2 22 (6.25%) Charles River
2 22 (6.25%) ION Trading
3 21 (5.97%) Calypso
4 19 (5.40%) SimCorp
5 9 (2.56%) Bloomberg
5 9 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.70%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) Murex
7 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.14%) Reuters
8 4 (1.14%) Sybase
9 3 (0.85%) Databricks
9 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.85%) IBM
9 3 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.85%) Splunk
9 3 (0.85%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.57%) SAP