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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 125 141
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 511 512 798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.90% 2.03% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.71% 5.63% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 449 686
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 £875 £850 £825
90th Percentile £888 £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 5,864 9,092 14,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.23% 35.98% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 6,602 10,387
10th Percentile £315 £374 £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 £719
90th Percentile £850 £838 £806
England median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 106 203
10th Percentile £15.46 £17.88 £17.21
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -20.81% +21.43%
75th Percentile £50.63 £58.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £68.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +3.92%

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 7 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 7 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 +8 18 £825 +10.00% 4
East London -9 2 £850 -10.53%
South London +5 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
1 220 (43.05%) Apache
1 220 (43.05%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.15%) Confluence
3 7 (1.37%) SAS
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.94%) ION Anvil
1 15 (2.94%) ION MarketView
2 13 (2.54%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.78%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.78%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.59%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.59%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.59%) RMDS
5 1 (0.20%) Actimize
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 313 (61.25%) AWS
2 207 (40.51%) GCP
3 147 (28.77%) dbt
4 116 (22.70%) Snowflake
5 115 (22.50%) Azure
6 8 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.98%) npm
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.15%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (41.29%) Apache Ignite
2 147 (28.77%) Apache Arrow
2 147 (28.77%) Dremio
3 139 (27.20%) Amazon Athena
4 124 (24.27%) Data Lake
5 69 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.70%) KDB
7 22 (4.31%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.76%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.57%) Big Data
9 8 (1.57%) Power BI
9 8 (1.57%) Tableau
10 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.59%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.20%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (9.98%) Cypress.io
2 30 (5.87%) JIRA
3 21 (4.11%) Git
4 20 (3.91%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.15%) git-flow
6 7 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.98%) webpack
9 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.78%) JUnit
9 4 (0.78%) Mockito
9 4 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.39%) Babel
10 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.39%) Gradle
10 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.39%) Moq
10 2 (0.39%) NUnit
10 2 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (77.50%) Finance
2 391 (76.52%) Front Office
3 300 (58.71%) Banking
4 202 (39.53%) Investment Banking
5 45 (8.81%) Social Skills
6 33 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.96%) Marketing
8 9 (1.76%) Back Office
9 2 (0.39%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.39%) 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
1 291 (56.95%) Developer
2 194 (37.96%) Software Engineer
3 153 (29.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 129 (25.24%) Python Engineer
4 129 (25.24%) Python Software Engineer
5 122 (23.87%) Python Developer
6 97 (18.98%) React Developer
7 94 (18.40%) Senior
8 66 (12.92%) Analyst
8 66 (12.92%) Lead
9 62 (12.13%) Java Developer
10 59 (11.55%) Finance Manager
11 58 (11.35%) Business Analyst
12 55 (10.76%) AWS Engineer
12 55 (10.76%) AWS Software Engineer
13 49 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 45 (8.81%) Java Engineer
14 45 (8.81%) Java Software Engineer
15 44 (8.61%) Full Stack Developer
16 38 (7.44%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (42.86%) gRPC
1 219 (42.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 177 (34.64%) React
3 144 (28.18%) Pandas
4 137 (26.81%) NumPy
4 137 (26.81%) SciPy
5 127 (24.85%) Redux
6 88 (17.22%) Material-UI
7 45 (8.81%) .NET
8 41 (8.02%) FIX Protocol
9 38 (7.44%) AngularJS
10 35 (6.85%) Node.js
11 27 (5.28%) CSS
12 26 (5.09%) .NET Core
13 21 (4.11%) Vue
13 21 (4.11%) WPF
14 18 (3.52%) WebSockets
15 17 (3.33%) HTML
16 14 (2.74%) Sass
17 13 (2.54%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 277 (54.21%) Hedge funds
2 274 (53.62%) Equities
3 259 (50.68%) Derivative
4 232 (45.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 44 (8.61%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.50%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (3.13%) Pricing Data
9 13 (2.54%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.17%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.59%) Wiki
15 2 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.87%) Unix
2 26 (5.09%) Linux
3 9 (1.76%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (66.73%) Agile
2 315 (61.64%) Asset Management
3 277 (54.21%) Software Engineering
4 264 (51.66%) Investment Management
5 108 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
6 95 (18.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 95 (18.59%) Machine Learning
7 90 (17.61%) Electronic Trading
8 75 (14.68%) Analytics
9 70 (13.70%) Automated Trading
10 60 (11.74%) Line Management
11 58 (11.35%) Fintech
12 50 (9.78%) TDD
13 40 (7.83%) Greeks
14 35 (6.85%) User Experience
15 34 (6.65%) DevOps
16 32 (6.26%) Computer Science
17 31 (6.07%) Front End Development
18 27 (5.28%) CI/CD
18 27 (5.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 309 (60.47%) Python
2 267 (52.25%) TypeScript
3 221 (43.25%) Java
4 215 (42.07%) JavaScript
5 109 (21.33%) SQL
6 80 (15.66%) C#
7 13 (2.54%) R
8 12 (2.35%) C++
9 9 (1.76%) Scala
10 7 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.17%) Ruby
11 6 (1.17%) VBA
12 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.78%) Perl
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (7.83%) Degree
2 15 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.15%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.39%) CIMA
6 1 (0.20%) APMP
6 1 (0.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.46%) QA
3 9 (1.76%) MiFID
4 5 (0.98%) Dodd-Frank
4 5 (0.98%) EMIR
5 2 (0.39%) GAAP
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.78%) Control-M
3 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (12.92%) Google
2 46 (9.00%) Bloomberg
3 42 (8.22%) ION Trading
4 12 (2.35%) BISAM
5 10 (1.96%) MarketAxess
5 10 (1.96%) Oracle
5 10 (1.96%) Tradeweb
6 6 (1.17%) Murex
7 4 (0.78%) Reuters
7 4 (0.78%) Solace
8 2 (0.39%) Charles River
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.39%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.20%) HP
9 1 (0.20%) SimCorp