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 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 169 191
Rank change year-on-year -216 +22 +70
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 210 388 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.59% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 4.64% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 355 440
10th Percentile £521 £550 £550
25th Percentile £641 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £846 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £900
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 13,182 8,364 11,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.30% 34.18% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,354 5,475 7,418
10th Percentile £308 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.24% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 332 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.77 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.75 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% +8.20% +42.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.81 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.00% +38.98%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -122 208 £750 - 39
Yorkshire -56 1 - - 1
North of England -60 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £725 - 1
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 3 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.86%) Summit
3 5 (2.38%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (36.67%) AWS
2 31 (14.76%) GCP
3 29 (13.81%) Azure
4 12 (5.71%) Snowflake
5 9 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.86%) GitHub
7 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.38%) Serverless
8 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.90%) SaaS
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.95%) Collibra
10 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.48%) RTMP
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.81%) Metadata
5 6 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.38%) KDB
6 5 (2.38%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) Power BI
7 4 (1.90%) Tableau
8 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.43%) Flink
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.95%) Power Query
10 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.48%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.29%) JIRA
2 6 (2.86%) Git
2 6 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.43%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.43%) ERwin
3 3 (1.43%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.95%) Maven
4 2 (0.95%) Mocha
4 2 (0.95%) MSTest
4 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.95%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
5 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 135 (64.29%) Finance
2 115 (54.76%) Front Office
3 69 (32.86%) Banking
4 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
5 38 (18.10%) Investment Banking
6 33 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (9.52%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.95%) Legal
12 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Law
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (51.43%) Developer
2 52 (24.76%) Software Engineer
3 47 (22.38%) Lead
4 44 (20.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 39 (18.57%) Analyst
5 39 (18.57%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.62%) Lead Developer
7 33 (15.71%) Java Developer
8 32 (15.24%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (15.24%) Lead Software Engineer
8 32 (15.24%) Senior
9 25 (11.90%) Python Developer
10 22 (10.48%) React Developer
11 21 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 20 (9.52%) Senior Developer
13 16 (7.62%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 15 (7.14%) Python Engineer
15 14 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
16 13 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
17 10 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.10%) React
2 56 (26.67%) Redux
3 50 (23.81%) Node.js
4 45 (21.43%) Kafka
5 33 (15.71%) GraphQL
6 14 (6.67%) .NET
7 12 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.81%) Vue
8 8 (3.81%) XML
9 7 (3.33%) Pandas
9 7 (3.33%) REST
10 6 (2.86%) HTML
10 6 (2.86%) NumPy
11 5 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (2.38%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (2.38%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) CSS
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.43%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.57%) Equities
2 53 (25.24%) Derivative
3 41 (19.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (7.14%) Reference Data
5 12 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.29%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.81%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.33%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.38%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.43%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.05%) Linux
2 15 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.67%) Agile
2 59 (28.10%) Software Engineering
3 57 (27.14%) Investment Management
4 53 (25.24%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (25.24%) Portfolio Management
5 42 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (16.19%) Order Management
8 32 (15.24%) Asset Management
9 29 (13.81%) CI/CD
10 28 (13.33%) Low Latency
11 27 (12.86%) Analytics
12 26 (12.38%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.90%) AI
14 23 (10.95%) Fintech
15 19 (9.05%) DevOps
15 19 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (9.05%) Test Automation
16 18 (8.57%) Risk Management
17 17 (8.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.95%) Python
2 74 (35.24%) Java
3 62 (29.52%) JavaScript
4 61 (29.05%) TypeScript
5 54 (25.71%) SQL
6 32 (15.24%) Go
7 12 (5.71%) C#
8 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.43%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (9.52%) Degree
2 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) CISM
3 2 (0.95%) CISSP
4 1 (0.48%) ACCA
4 1 (0.48%) CFA
4 1 (0.48%) CISA
4 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.48%) PhD
4 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.48%) PMP
4 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.24%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) MiFID
4 3 (1.43%) GDPR
4 3 (1.43%) IFRS
5 2 (0.95%) EMIR
5 2 (0.95%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.48%) GAAP
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (1.43%) Argo
4 3 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.48%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Kibana
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.10%) Murex
2 13 (6.19%) Oracle
3 10 (4.76%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.29%) Charles River
5 8 (3.81%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.90%) Solace
7 4 (1.90%) Sybase
8 3 (1.43%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.95%) Citrix
9 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.95%) Databricks
9 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.95%) Reuters
9 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.95%) Splunk
9 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.95%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.48%) FIS