Fixed Income Contracts in London

Fixed Income
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fixed Income over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 132 140
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 491 509 789
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.80% 1.99% 2.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.43% 5.52% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 444 679
10th Percentile £550 £525 £538
25th Percentile £650 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £864 £841 £825
90th Percentile £900 £938 £888
England median daily rate £775 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +6.90% - +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £83.50

All Generic Skills
London

Fixed Income is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,228 14,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.24% 36.07% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,708 10,308
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £718
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 204
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.04
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -18.09% +24.31%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Central London +1 16 £825 +10.00% 6
East London -10 2 £850 -10.53%
South London +3 1 £800 +36.17% 1
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 205 (41.75%) Apache Airflow
2 203 (41.34%) Apache
3 12 (2.44%) Confluence
4 7 (1.43%) SAS
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.26%) ION MarketView
2 15 (3.05%) ION Anvil
3 13 (2.65%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.81%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.81%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.61%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.61%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.61%) RMDS
6 1 (0.20%) Actimize
6 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 297 (60.49%) AWS
2 200 (40.73%) GCP
3 131 (26.68%) dbt
4 117 (23.83%) Azure
5 103 (20.98%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.22%) npm
6 6 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.44%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (39.92%) Apache Ignite
2 131 (26.68%) Apache Arrow
2 131 (26.68%) Dremio
3 125 (25.46%) Amazon Athena
4 109 (22.20%) Data Lake
5 69 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.89%) KDB
7 22 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.83%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.22%) Big Data
9 6 (1.22%) Power BI
9 6 (1.22%) Tableau
10 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.61%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.20%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (10.39%) Cypress.io
2 32 (6.52%) JIRA
3 21 (4.28%) TeamCity
4 20 (4.07%) Git
5 10 (2.04%) git-flow
6 7 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.22%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.22%) webpack
8 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.81%) JUnit
8 4 (0.81%) Mockito
8 4 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.41%) Babel
9 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.41%) Gradle
9 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.41%) Moq
9 2 (0.41%) NUnit
9 2 (0.41%) Selenium
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 378 (76.99%) Finance
2 373 (75.97%) Front Office
3 286 (58.25%) Banking
4 187 (38.09%) Investment Banking
5 42 (8.55%) Social Skills
6 34 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.83%) Back Office
8 9 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (0.41%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.20%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.20%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.20%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 283 (57.64%) Developer
2 186 (37.88%) Software Engineer
3 149 (30.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 123 (25.05%) Python Engineer
4 123 (25.05%) Python Software Engineer
5 116 (23.63%) Python Developer
6 96 (19.55%) React Developer
7 87 (17.72%) Senior
8 64 (13.03%) Analyst
9 61 (12.42%) Lead
10 60 (12.22%) Java Developer
11 59 (12.02%) Finance Manager
12 58 (11.81%) Business Analyst
13 48 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
13 48 (9.78%) AWS Software Engineer
14 45 (9.16%) Full Stack Developer
14 45 (9.16%) Senior Software Engineer
15 40 (8.15%) Java Engineer
15 40 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
16 39 (7.94%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (41.55%) gRPC
1 204 (41.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 173 (35.23%) React
3 129 (26.27%) Pandas
4 126 (25.66%) Redux
5 122 (24.85%) NumPy
5 122 (24.85%) SciPy
6 88 (17.92%) Material-UI
7 43 (8.76%) .NET
8 42 (8.55%) FIX Protocol
9 34 (6.92%) AngularJS
9 34 (6.92%) Node.js
10 26 (5.30%) .NET Core
10 26 (5.30%) CSS
11 21 (4.28%) Vue
12 19 (3.87%) WebSockets
12 19 (3.87%) WPF
13 17 (3.46%) HTML
14 14 (2.85%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 259 (52.75%) Equities
1 259 (52.75%) Hedge funds
2 244 (49.69%) Derivative
3 214 (43.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (8.15%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.48%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.85%) Pricing Data
8 12 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.81%) Wiki
12 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.31%) Unix
2 25 (5.09%) Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (66.40%) Agile
2 300 (61.10%) Asset Management
3 266 (54.18%) Software Engineering
4 256 (52.14%) Investment Management
5 108 (22.00%) Full Stack Development
6 94 (19.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 94 (19.14%) Machine Learning
7 89 (18.13%) Electronic Trading
8 71 (14.46%) Analytics
9 70 (14.26%) Automated Trading
10 58 (11.81%) Fintech
11 52 (10.59%) Line Management
12 51 (10.39%) TDD
13 37 (7.54%) Greeks
14 36 (7.33%) DevOps
15 33 (6.72%) User Experience
16 32 (6.52%) Front End Development
17 28 (5.70%) Computer Science
18 26 (5.30%) CI/CD
18 26 (5.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 288 (58.66%) Python
2 254 (51.73%) TypeScript
3 208 (42.36%) Java
4 202 (41.14%) JavaScript
5 102 (20.77%) SQL
6 80 (16.29%) C#
7 14 (2.85%) R
8 12 (2.44%) C++
9 9 (1.83%) Scala
10 7 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.22%) Ruby
11 6 (1.22%) VBA
12 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.81%) Perl
14 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (7.74%) Degree
2 13 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.41%) CIMA
6 1 (0.20%) APMP
6 1 (0.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.13%) QA
3 10 (2.04%) MiFID
4 6 (1.22%) Dodd-Frank
4 6 (1.22%) EMIR
5 2 (0.41%) GAAP
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.81%) Control-M
3 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (13.44%) Google
2 43 (8.76%) Bloomberg
3 42 (8.55%) ION Trading
4 12 (2.44%) BISAM
5 11 (2.24%) MarketAxess
5 11 (2.24%) Tradeweb
6 10 (2.04%) Oracle
7 6 (1.22%) Murex
8 4 (0.81%) Solace
9 2 (0.41%) Charles River
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.41%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.20%) HP
10 1 (0.20%) SimCorp