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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 194 278
Rank change year-on-year -112 +84 -55
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 238 408 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.31% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 4.14% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 364 310
10th Percentile £525 £588 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £715
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.89% -1.38%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £712
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.36% -1.79%
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 11,163 9,846 12,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.30% 31.63% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,874 8,422
10th Percentile £285 £300 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.86% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 315 459
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.75 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.47% -3.37% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £75.21 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.13 £44.25
% change year-on-year -23.13% -20.62% +26.43%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -72 235 £750 -6.25% 27
Yorkshire -39 2 - -
North of England -42 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -
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 47 (19.75%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (12.61%) Apache
3 7 (2.94%) Confluence
4 5 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.30%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.94%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.94%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.68%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.84%) BondVision
5 1 (0.42%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 85 (35.71%) AWS
2 47 (19.75%) dbt
3 35 (14.71%) Snowflake
4 29 (12.18%) Azure
5 27 (11.34%) GCP
6 11 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.36%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.10%) GitHub
8 5 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.10%) Serverless
9 4 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.84%) SaaS
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.42%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (0.84%) Multicast
3 2 (0.84%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.75%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (19.75%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (19.75%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (19.75%) Dremio
2 31 (13.03%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.61%) Apache Ignite
4 26 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.14%) KDB
6 12 (5.04%) Kdb+
6 12 (5.04%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.36%) Power BI
8 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.52%) Data Mart
9 6 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.10%) Flink
10 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.26%) Power Query
12 2 (0.84%) Big Data
12 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.46%) JIRA
2 9 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.52%) Git
4 5 (2.10%) QUnit
5 4 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.84%) GitLab
6 2 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 188 (78.99%) Finance
2 147 (61.76%) Front Office
3 94 (39.50%) Banking
4 65 (27.31%) Investment Banking
5 56 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 31 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (10.08%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.78%) Back Office
9 5 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.68%) Legal
10 4 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.26%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (40.76%) Developer
2 72 (30.25%) Software Engineer
3 52 (21.85%) AWS Engineer
4 51 (21.43%) Python Engineer
4 51 (21.43%) Senior
5 47 (19.75%) AWS Software Engineer
6 44 (18.49%) Python Software Engineer
7 39 (16.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 37 (15.55%) Analyst
8 37 (15.55%) Java Engineer
8 37 (15.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 34 (14.29%) Python Developer
10 30 (12.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (12.18%) Senior Java Engineer
11 29 (12.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 28 (11.76%) Business Analyst
13 19 (7.98%) Senior Developer
14 18 (7.56%) Java Developer
15 17 (7.14%) AWS Developer
16 13 (5.46%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (21.01%) NumPy
1 50 (21.01%) React
2 49 (20.59%) Pandas
3 48 (20.17%) SciPy
4 35 (14.71%) Node.js
5 30 (12.61%) gRPC
5 30 (12.61%) Protocol Buffers
6 25 (10.50%) Kafka
7 23 (9.66%) FIX Protocol
8 22 (9.24%) Redux
9 20 (8.40%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.40%) Vue
10 18 (7.56%) REST
11 17 (7.14%) .NET
12 12 (5.04%) GraphQL
13 10 (4.20%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.94%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.94%) Middleware
15 6 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (2.10%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 113 (47.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 99 (41.60%) Equities
3 82 (34.45%) Derivative
4 43 (18.07%) Hedge funds
5 30 (12.61%) Pricing Data
6 23 (9.66%) Algorithms
7 19 (7.98%) Product Ownership
8 17 (7.14%) Cloud Native
8 17 (7.14%) Data Structures
9 11 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (3.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (2.94%) Reference Data
12 6 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.68%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.68%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.26%) Market Risk
14 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (5.46%) Unix
3 5 (2.10%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.00%) Agile
2 90 (37.82%) Software Engineering
3 84 (35.29%) Investment Management
4 68 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 43 (18.07%) Electronic Trading
6 38 (15.97%) Fintech
7 37 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.55%) Risk Management
8 36 (15.13%) Order Management
9 32 (13.45%) DevOps
10 31 (13.03%) Analytics
11 27 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.50%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.50%) Low Latency
13 23 (9.66%) CI/CD
14 19 (7.98%) Scrum
15 18 (7.56%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (7.14%) Performance Attribution
17 16 (6.72%) Design Patterns
17 16 (6.72%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 135 (56.72%) Python
2 75 (31.51%) JavaScript
3 71 (29.83%) TypeScript
4 70 (29.41%) Java
5 61 (25.63%) SQL
6 24 (10.08%) C#
7 12 (5.04%) Go
8 11 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.78%) C++
10 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
11 2 (0.84%) Perl
11 2 (0.84%) Tcl
11 2 (0.84%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.92%) Degree
2 13 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.10%) PhD
5 2 (0.84%) CISM
5 2 (0.84%) CISSP
5 2 (0.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.84%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) PMP
6 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.62%) MiFID
1 11 (4.62%) QA
2 8 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.10%) EMIR
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) NIST
4 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.42%) Basel III
5 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (6.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.52%) Ansible
3 6 (2.52%) Kibana
3 6 (2.52%) logstash
4 5 (2.10%) Argo
5 3 (1.26%) BladeLogic
5 3 (1.26%) Terraform
6 2 (0.84%) Grafana
6 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Murex
2 18 (7.56%) Bloomberg
2 18 (7.56%) ION Trading
3 11 (4.62%) Tradeweb
4 8 (3.36%) Solace
5 7 (2.94%) Databricks
5 7 (2.94%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.52%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.52%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.52%) Oracle
6 6 (2.52%) Reuters
7 5 (2.10%) Charles River
8 4 (1.68%) Portware
9 3 (1.26%) CQG
9 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.26%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.84%) Calypso
10 2 (0.84%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.84%) Splunk