Fixed Income Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fixed Income
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 160 255
Rank change year-on-year +78 +95 +164
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 292 201 238
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.95% 1.31% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.92% 4.56% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 191 201
10th Percentile £550 £650 £475
25th Percentile £638 £688 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £863
90th Percentile £938 £1,088 £950
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Fixed Income
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fixed Income trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fixed Income.

Fixed Income daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Fixed Income daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 66 (22.60%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (16.44%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) DataSynapse
Business Applications
1 39 (13.36%) Aladdin
2 14 (4.79%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 119 (40.75%) AWS
2 97 (33.22%) GCP
3 64 (21.92%) dbt
4 39 (13.36%) Snowflake
5 23 (7.88%) Azure
6 17 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.82%) Dagster
7 5 (1.71%) Figma
8 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.68%) Prefect
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (41.10%) Data Lake
2 64 (21.92%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (21.92%) Apache Arrow
2 64 (21.92%) Apache Iceberg
2 64 (21.92%) Dremio
3 46 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (13.70%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.34%) KDB
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.05%) JIRA
2 3 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 279 (95.55%) Finance
2 273 (93.49%) Front Office
3 80 (27.40%) Banking
4 49 (16.78%) Investment Banking
5 25 (8.56%) Social Skills
6 13 (4.45%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (39.38%) Software Engineer
2 100 (34.25%) Developer
3 86 (29.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 64 (21.92%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (21.92%) AWS Software Engineer
5 61 (20.89%) Analyst
6 59 (20.21%) Business Analyst
7 43 (14.73%) Python Engineer
7 43 (14.73%) Python Software Engineer
8 37 (12.67%) Head of Finance
9 36 (12.33%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 35 (11.99%) AWS Developer
10 35 (11.99%) React Developer
11 34 (11.64%) Business Manager
12 33 (11.30%) Java Engineer
12 33 (11.30%) Java Software Engineer
13 28 (9.59%) Python Developer
14 26 (8.90%) Senior
15 25 (8.56%) Lead
16 22 (7.53%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.71%) React
2 62 (21.23%) Redux
3 57 (19.52%) Node.js
4 56 (19.18%) NumPy
4 56 (19.18%) Pandas
4 56 (19.18%) SciPy
5 44 (15.07%) AngularJS
6 43 (14.73%) Vue
7 40 (13.70%) gRPC
7 40 (13.70%) Protocol Buffers
8 25 (8.56%) PySpark
9 8 (2.74%) .NET
10 7 (2.40%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.71%) Akka.NET
11 5 (1.71%) OpenFin
11 5 (1.71%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.37%) XML
13 2 (0.68%) Middleware
13 2 (0.68%) Swing
13 2 (0.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 185 (63.36%) Hedge funds
2 177 (60.62%) Derivative
3 163 (55.82%) Equities
4 161 (55.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 38 (13.01%) Product Ownership
6 18 (6.16%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.11%) Pricing Data
8 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.68%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.68%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.37%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (87.67%) Agile
2 225 (77.05%) Investment Management
3 154 (52.74%) Asset Management
4 117 (40.07%) Software Engineering
5 109 (37.33%) Migration
6 94 (32.19%) Regulatory Compliance
7 91 (31.16%) Data Governance
7 91 (31.16%) Roadmaps
8 73 (25.00%) Fintech
9 71 (24.32%) Data Management
10 45 (15.41%) Analytics
11 44 (15.07%) Performance Attribution
12 43 (14.73%) Business Analysis
13 38 (13.01%) Portfolio Management
14 37 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (11.99%) User Experience
16 27 (9.25%) Quantitative Research
16 27 (9.25%) User Acceptance Testing
17 23 (7.88%) Risk Management
18 21 (7.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (52.05%) Python
2 108 (36.99%) JavaScript
2 108 (36.99%) TypeScript
3 58 (19.86%) SQL
4 49 (16.78%) Java
5 11 (3.77%) C#
6 5 (1.71%) F#
7 3 (1.03%) Ruby
8 2 (0.68%) Perl
8 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (3.77%) Degree
2 4 (1.37%) CFA
3 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.68%) MBA
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.59%) MiFID
2 3 (1.03%) EMIR
3 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.34%) PMO
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Docker
1 1 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Grafana
1 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.34%) Kibana
1 1 (0.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (12.67%) BISAM
2 19 (6.51%) Charles River
3 15 (5.14%) Calypso
4 14 (4.79%) SimCorp
5 11 (3.77%) ION Trading
6 7 (2.40%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.37%) Murex
8 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle
9 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.68%) Sybase
10 1 (0.34%) CQG
10 1 (0.34%) HP
10 1 (0.34%) IBM
10 1 (0.34%) Reuters
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.34%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) TIBCO