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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 201 274
Rank change year-on-year -190 +73 -2
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 188 331 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.28% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 3.81% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 297 286
10th Percentile £500 £588 £569
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £745
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £838
90th Percentile £947 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 11,886 8,682 11,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.12% 33.46% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 5,329 7,651
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 259 756
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.98
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +9.23% +44.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £58.71
90th Percentile £76.55 £83.24 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.83 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.28% +1.25% +44.54%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -119 186 £750 +3.45% 47
North of England -64 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
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 8 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.66%) Apache
3 5 (2.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.19%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (1.60%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.06%) Summit
5 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.53%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.53%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.32%) AWS
2 20 (10.64%) GCP
3 18 (9.57%) Azure
4 13 (6.91%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.26%) dbt
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.19%) GitHub
7 6 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.19%) SaaS
8 3 (1.60%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.53%) npm
10 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.53%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.53%) HTTP
1 1 (0.53%) Multicast
1 1 (0.53%) RTMP
1 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.53%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.38%) KDB
2 12 (6.38%) Kdb+
3 8 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (4.26%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (4.26%) Dremio
4 7 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.19%) Flink
6 5 (2.66%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.06%) Metadata
7 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (6.91%) JIRA
2 6 (3.19%) Git
3 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) QUnit
5 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Mocha
6 1 (0.53%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 122 (64.89%) Finance
2 103 (54.79%) Front Office
3 64 (34.04%) Banking
4 56 (29.79%) Social Skills
5 39 (20.74%) Investment Banking
6 37 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.98%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.72%) Back Office
9 5 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.66%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (43.09%) Developer
2 39 (20.74%) Business Analyst
3 33 (17.55%) Analyst
3 33 (17.55%) Software Engineer
4 25 (13.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 25 (13.30%) Python Developer
4 25 (13.30%) Senior
5 23 (12.23%) Lead
6 20 (10.64%) Python Engineer
7 18 (9.57%) Lead Developer
8 17 (9.04%) Java Developer
9 16 (8.51%) Lead Software Developer
9 16 (8.51%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 13 (6.91%) Quantitative Developer
12 12 (6.38%) React Developer
12 12 (6.38%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.85%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.55%) Kafka
1 33 (17.55%) React
2 27 (14.36%) Node.js
3 25 (13.30%) Redux
4 16 (8.51%) GraphQL
5 14 (7.45%) REST
6 13 (6.91%) FIX Protocol
6 13 (6.91%) NumPy
6 13 (6.91%) Pandas
7 9 (4.79%) .NET
7 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.26%) HTML
8 8 (4.26%) SciPy
9 7 (3.72%) Vue
9 7 (3.72%) XML
10 6 (3.19%) Dask
11 5 (2.66%) CSS
11 5 (2.66%) gRPC
11 5 (2.66%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (2.66%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 67 (35.64%) Equities
2 54 (28.72%) Derivative
3 52 (27.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (9.57%) Algorithms
5 14 (7.45%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.38%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.38%) Hedge funds
7 11 (5.85%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.66%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.66%) Pricing Data
12 4 (2.13%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.06%) OTC Derivatives
13 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.89%) Linux
2 11 (5.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.98%) Agile
2 44 (23.40%) Investment Management
2 44 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (22.34%) Electronic Trading
3 42 (22.34%) Software Engineering
4 29 (15.43%) Asset Management
5 28 (14.89%) Analytics
5 28 (14.89%) Portfolio Management
5 28 (14.89%) Risk Management
6 24 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (12.23%) CI/CD
7 23 (12.23%) Fintech
8 22 (11.70%) Order Management
9 20 (10.64%) DevOps
10 19 (10.11%) Low Latency
11 18 (9.57%) AI
12 16 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (8.51%) Machine Learning
13 15 (7.98%) SDLC
14 14 (7.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 95 (50.53%) Python
2 53 (28.19%) SQL
3 45 (23.94%) Java
4 39 (20.74%) JavaScript
5 37 (19.68%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.51%) Go
7 7 (3.72%) C#
8 5 (2.66%) C++
8 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.06%) Perl
10 2 (1.06%) Tcl
10 2 (1.06%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Degree
2 10 (5.32%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.19%) PhD
4 5 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) CISM
5 2 (1.06%) CISSP
5 2 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) ACCA
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CFA
6 1 (0.53%) CISA
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.13%) MiFID
4 3 (1.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) IFRS
5 2 (1.06%) EMIR
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Basel III
6 1 (0.53%) GAAP
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.19%) Argo
2 6 (3.19%) Terraform
3 5 (2.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.13%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Kibana
5 2 (1.06%) logstash
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.57%) ION Trading
2 14 (7.45%) Murex
3 13 (6.91%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.79%) Charles River
5 6 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.19%) Oracle
6 5 (2.66%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.13%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.60%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.60%) Solace
8 3 (1.60%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.06%) Databricks
9 2 (1.06%) FIS
9 2 (1.06%) Reuters
9 2 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) Sybase
9 2 (1.06%) Vermilion