Fixed Income Contracts in the City of London

Fixed Income
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 117 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 -39 -11
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 14 33 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.66% 1.19% 3.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 3.79% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 72
10th Percentile £611 £625 £407
25th Percentile £737 £650 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £740 £725
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +2.07% -0.68%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £800
90th Percentile £864 £1,050 £913
Central London median daily rate £738 £750 £730
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.74% +0.69%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 646 871 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.43% 31.36% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 566 1,034
10th Percentile £375 £313 £363
25th Percentile £471 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.65%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £838 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £590 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.13% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 28
10th Percentile £32.05 £17.00 £18.66
25th Percentile £39.63 £17.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £36.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.10% +41.10%
75th Percentile £76.13 £49.88 £62.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £68.75 £82.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% -45.54% +38.36%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) KDB
2 1 (7.14%) Kdb+
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
1 9 (64.29%) Front Office
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) GUI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) KDB Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) WPF
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) CSS3
4 1 (7.14%) Electron
4 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (7.14%) FpML
4 1 (7.14%) Highcharts JS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) LESS
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) Reactive Extensions
4 1 (7.14%) Rendezvous
4 1 (7.14%) RxJS
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Equities
1 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 6 (42.86%) Electronic Trading
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Low Latency
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 2 (14.29%) OO
4 2 (14.29%) Physics
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) Kotlin
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) CFA
4 1 (7.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (7.14%) EMIR
1 1 (7.14%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ION Trading
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) TIBCO