Fixed Income Contract Job Trends in England

Fixed Income
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 213 155
Rank change year-on-year -174 -58 +77
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 244 355 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.29% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 3.71% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 314 531
10th Percentile £525 £538 £550
25th Percentile £663 £625 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £859 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,004 9,564 10,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.28% 34.86% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 6,038 6,938
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £542
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 481 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.71 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% -27.31% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.23 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in England

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
London -112 231 £750 - 66
North of England -69 6 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Midlands -50 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 -
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.05%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.64%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.64%) Summit
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.41%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 79 (32.38%) AWS
2 36 (14.75%) GCP
3 32 (13.11%) Azure
4 14 (5.74%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.10%) Serverless
6 7 (2.87%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.23%) Datadog
9 3 (1.23%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.82%) Collibra
10 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.46%) Multicast
2 4 (1.64%) VPN
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.28%) Metadata
4 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.46%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.46%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.05%) Power BI
6 4 (1.64%) KDB
6 4 (1.64%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.64%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.64%) Tableau
7 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Power Query
8 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) JIRA
2 6 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.05%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.05%) ERwin
3 5 (2.05%) Git
3 5 (2.05%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Mocha
4 3 (1.23%) MSTest
4 3 (1.23%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.82%) JMeter
5 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.82%) Maven
5 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.41%) Storybook
6 1 (0.41%) Vite
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 163 (66.80%) Front Office
2 162 (66.39%) Finance
3 97 (39.75%) Banking
4 65 (26.64%) Investment Banking
5 45 (18.44%) Social Skills
6 36 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.15%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.46%) Back Office
9 5 (2.05%) Law
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) French Language
12 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (51.23%) Developer
2 62 (25.41%) Software Engineer
3 58 (23.77%) Java Developer
4 57 (23.36%) Senior
5 52 (21.31%) Lead
6 48 (19.67%) React Developer
7 45 (18.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 45 (18.44%) Senior Developer
8 39 (15.98%) Analyst
8 39 (15.98%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (15.57%) Lead Developer
10 36 (14.75%) Business Analyst
11 33 (13.52%) UI Developer
12 32 (13.11%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (13.11%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (11.07%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (11.07%) Senior UI Developer
14 18 (7.38%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 15 (6.15%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (38.11%) React
2 86 (35.25%) Redux
3 56 (22.95%) Node.js
4 39 (15.98%) Kafka
5 33 (13.52%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.38%) .NET
7 13 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.51%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.28%) Vue
10 7 (2.87%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.87%) Pandas
11 6 (2.46%) HTML
11 6 (2.46%) Middleware
11 6 (2.46%) NumPy
11 6 (2.46%) RESTful
12 5 (2.05%) CSS
12 5 (2.05%) PySpark
12 5 (2.05%) REST
13 4 (1.64%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.84%) Equities
2 77 (31.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (24.18%) Derivative
4 29 (11.89%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.15%) Market Risk
6 12 (4.92%) Reference Data
7 11 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.10%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.46%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.46%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.05%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.05%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.43%) Linux
2 19 (7.79%) Unix
3 3 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (39.34%) Agile
2 75 (30.74%) Software Engineering
3 71 (29.10%) Electronic Trading
4 63 (25.82%) Investment Management
4 63 (25.82%) Low Latency
5 56 (22.95%) Portfolio Management
6 48 (19.67%) Order Management
7 40 (16.39%) Asset Management
7 40 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.75%) CI/CD
9 29 (11.89%) Analytics
10 28 (11.48%) Mentoring
11 25 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (9.84%) Validation
13 23 (9.43%) Fintech
14 22 (9.02%) AI
15 21 (8.61%) Business Analysis
15 21 (8.61%) Risk Management
15 21 (8.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.21%) Java
1 103 (42.21%) Python
2 93 (38.11%) JavaScript
3 92 (37.70%) TypeScript
4 53 (21.72%) SQL
5 43 (17.62%) C#
6 32 (13.11%) Go
7 12 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.46%) C++
8 6 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.23%) Bash
9 3 (1.23%) C
9 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.02%) Degree
2 12 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.64%) PhD
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ACCA
5 1 (0.41%) CFA
5 1 (0.41%) CISA
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.87%) QA
3 5 (2.05%) MiFID
4 2 (0.82%) GAAP
4 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.41%) EMIR
5 1 (0.41%) ITGC
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.05%) Ansible
3 4 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.64%) Terraform
4 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.38%) Murex
2 13 (5.33%) Charles River
3 9 (3.69%) Oracle
3 9 (3.69%) Solace
4 8 (3.28%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.46%) MarketAxess
5 6 (2.46%) Tradeweb
6 5 (2.05%) Sybase
7 4 (1.64%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.23%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.82%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Advent
10 1 (0.41%) Calypso
10 1 (0.41%) FactSet
10 1 (0.41%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.41%) Reuters
10 1 (0.41%) SGI
10 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.41%) SunGard