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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 205 276
Rank change year-on-year -169 +71 -6
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 190 332 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.27% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 3.83% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 298 287
10th Percentile £520 £588 £584
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £841
90th Percentile £931 £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 11,723 8,668 11,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.25% 33.27% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,277 7,782
10th Percentile £275 £275 £255
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £668 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 251 752
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.88
Median hourly rate £32.25 £37.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +13.85% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.98% +42.83%

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 14 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 14 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 -108 188 £750 +3.45% 21
North of England -57 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 12 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.21%) Apache
3 6 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.16%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.58%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.05%) Summit
5 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.53%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
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 60 (31.58%) AWS
2 21 (11.05%) GCP
3 18 (9.47%) Azure
4 15 (7.89%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.32%) dbt
6 11 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.16%) GitHub
7 6 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.16%) SaaS
8 3 (1.58%) Serverless
9 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.53%) Collibra
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 17 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.37%) KDB
2 14 (7.37%) Kdb+
3 12 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (6.32%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (6.32%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (6.32%) Dremio
4 9 (4.74%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.21%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.16%) Flink
8 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.05%) Metadata
8 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) Big Data
9 1 (0.53%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.53%) Power BI
9 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (6.84%) JIRA
2 6 (3.16%) Git
3 5 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.11%) QUnit
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.05%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.05%) 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
1 127 (66.84%) Finance
2 106 (55.79%) Front Office
3 65 (34.21%) Banking
4 57 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 41 (21.58%) Investment Banking
6 35 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.89%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.68%) Back Office
9 6 (3.16%) Legal
10 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (43.68%) Developer
2 39 (20.53%) Business Analyst
3 37 (19.47%) Software Engineer
4 32 (16.84%) Analyst
5 29 (15.26%) Senior
6 26 (13.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (13.68%) Python Developer
7 24 (12.63%) Python Engineer
8 22 (11.58%) Lead
9 19 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (9.47%) Lead Developer
11 17 (8.95%) Java Developer
12 16 (8.42%) Lead Software Developer
12 16 (8.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (7.37%) Python Software Engineer
14 13 (6.84%) AWS Software Engineer
14 13 (6.84%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 13 (6.84%) Quantitative Developer
14 13 (6.84%) Senior Developer
15 12 (6.32%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.89%) React
2 33 (17.37%) Kafka
3 28 (14.74%) Node.js
4 25 (13.16%) Redux
5 17 (8.95%) NumPy
5 17 (8.95%) Pandas
6 16 (8.42%) GraphQL
7 14 (7.37%) REST
8 12 (6.32%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (6.32%) SciPy
9 10 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.74%) .NET
11 8 (4.21%) gRPC
11 8 (4.21%) HTML
11 8 (4.21%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (4.21%) Vue
12 7 (3.68%) XML
13 6 (3.16%) Dask
14 5 (2.63%) CSS
14 5 (2.63%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 70 (36.84%) Equities
2 55 (28.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (28.42%) Derivative
4 19 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 15 (7.89%) Hedge funds
6 13 (6.84%) Cloud Native
6 13 (6.84%) Data Structures
7 11 (5.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (5.26%) Reference Data
9 8 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.21%) Pricing Data
10 7 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.68%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.63%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.11%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.79%) Linux
2 13 (6.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.21%) Agile
2 48 (25.26%) Investment Management
3 46 (24.21%) Software Engineering
4 44 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (22.11%) Electronic Trading
6 32 (16.84%) Asset Management
7 29 (15.26%) Risk Management
8 28 (14.74%) Analytics
9 27 (14.21%) Portfolio Management
10 24 (12.63%) CI/CD
10 24 (12.63%) Fintech
11 23 (12.11%) Order Management
12 22 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (10.53%) DevOps
14 19 (10.00%) Low Latency
15 18 (9.47%) AI
16 17 (8.95%) SDLC
17 16 (8.42%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (8.42%) Machine Learning
18 14 (7.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.58%) Python
2 51 (26.84%) SQL
3 48 (25.26%) Java
4 43 (22.63%) JavaScript
5 41 (21.58%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.42%) Go
7 7 (3.68%) C#
8 5 (2.63%) C++
8 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.05%) Tcl
10 2 (1.05%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.11%) Degree
2 10 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.16%) PhD
4 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.05%) CISM
5 2 (1.05%) CISSP
5 2 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CFA
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.89%) QA
2 8 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.11%) MiFID
4 3 (1.58%) GDPR
4 3 (1.58%) IFRS
5 2 (1.05%) EMIR
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
5 2 (1.05%) 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%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.16%) Argo
2 6 (3.16%) Terraform
3 5 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.11%) Ansible
5 2 (1.05%) Kibana
5 2 (1.05%) logstash
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.47%) ION Trading
2 11 (5.79%) Bloomberg
2 11 (5.79%) Murex
3 8 (4.21%) Charles River
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.16%) Oracle
5 5 (2.63%) Tradeweb
6 4 (2.11%) MarketAxess
7 3 (1.58%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.58%) Solace
7 3 (1.58%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.05%) Citrix
8 2 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.05%) Databricks
8 2 (1.05%) FIS
8 2 (1.05%) Reuters
8 2 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (1.05%) Sybase
8 2 (1.05%) Vermilion