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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 201 281
Rank change year-on-year -196 +80 -18
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 168 334 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 1.28% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.87% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 298 277
10th Percentile £510 £588 £598
25th Percentile £588 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £843 £888 £844
90th Percentile £979 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £733 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +1.03% - -1.86%
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 11,493 8,626 11,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.47% 33.03% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,348 5,198 7,836
10th Percentile £275 £266 £252
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £662
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 565 248 739
10th Percentile £15.40 £18.51 £13.40
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.23 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +15.38% +44.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%

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 4 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 4 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 -121 166 £750 +3.45% 32
North of England -58 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
3 6 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.57%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.19%) Summit
5 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.60%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.60%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.60%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.60%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.05%) AWS
2 15 (8.93%) Snowflake
3 12 (7.14%) dbt
4 10 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.76%) Azure
6 6 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.57%) GCP
6 6 (3.57%) GitHub
6 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.57%) SaaS
7 3 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.19%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.60%) Collibra
9 1 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
1 1 (0.60%) Multicast
1 1 (0.60%) RTMP
1 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) KDB
1 14 (8.33%) Kdb+
2 12 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (7.14%) Apache Arrow
2 12 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
2 12 (7.14%) Dremio
3 9 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.76%) Apache Ignite
4 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.57%) Flink
7 3 (1.79%) Power BI
8 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.19%) Metadata
8 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) Big Data
9 1 (0.60%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (3.57%) Git
3 5 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.98%) QUnit
4 2 (1.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.19%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) NUnit
5 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 106 (63.10%) Finance
2 88 (52.38%) Front Office
3 64 (38.10%) Banking
4 55 (32.74%) Social Skills
5 40 (23.81%) Investment Banking
6 34 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (9.52%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.17%) Back Office
9 6 (3.57%) Legal
10 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Marketing
13 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (35.71%) Developer
2 38 (22.62%) Business Analyst
3 35 (20.83%) Analyst
4 31 (18.45%) Senior
5 23 (13.69%) Python Developer
6 20 (11.90%) Python Engineer
7 18 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.33%) Software Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Java Developer
10 12 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (5.95%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 9 (5.36%) Project Manager
14 8 (4.76%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.93%) Kafka
1 15 (8.93%) NumPy
1 15 (8.93%) Pandas
2 13 (7.74%) REST
3 12 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (7.14%) SciPy
4 11 (6.55%) React
5 9 (5.36%) .NET
5 9 (5.36%) HTML
6 8 (4.76%) gRPC
6 8 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (4.17%) HTML5
7 7 (4.17%) XML
8 6 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 6 (3.57%) Dask
9 5 (2.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.98%) Reactive Extensions
10 4 (2.38%) CSS
10 4 (2.38%) Node.js
10 4 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (37.50%) Equities
2 54 (32.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (29.17%) Derivative
4 20 (11.90%) Algorithms
5 15 (8.93%) Hedge funds
6 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.74%) Data Structures
7 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
7 11 (6.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (5.95%) Reference Data
9 9 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (4.76%) Pricing Data
11 7 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (2.98%) Credit Risk
13 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.79%) Market Risk
15 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.26%) Linux
2 13 (7.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (24.40%) Agile
3 40 (23.81%) Electronic Trading
4 29 (17.26%) Analytics
4 29 (17.26%) Risk Management
5 24 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 24 (14.29%) Investment Management
5 24 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (13.10%) CI/CD
6 22 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 20 (11.90%) AI
8 19 (11.31%) Low Latency
9 18 (10.71%) DevOps
10 17 (10.12%) SDLC
11 16 (9.52%) Fintech
12 15 (8.93%) Mathematics
12 15 (8.93%) Quantitative Finance
13 14 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 14 (8.33%) Machine Learning
13 14 (8.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.24%) Python
2 50 (29.76%) SQL
3 30 (17.86%) Java
4 20 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.17%) C#
7 5 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.38%) C++
9 2 (1.19%) Perl
9 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.19%) Tcl
9 2 (1.19%) VBA
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (13.69%) Degree
2 10 (5.95%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.57%) PhD
4 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.19%) CISM
5 2 (1.19%) CISSP
5 2 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CFA
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) PMP
6 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) MiFID
4 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.79%) IFRS
5 2 (1.19%) EMIR
5 2 (1.19%) NIST
5 2 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) Basel III
6 1 (0.60%) GAAP
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Argo
2 6 (3.57%) Terraform
3 5 (2.98%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.38%) Ansible
5 2 (1.19%) Kibana
5 2 (1.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (11.31%) ION Trading
2 11 (6.55%) Bloomberg
3 10 (5.95%) Murex
4 8 (4.76%) Charles River
5 6 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.57%) Oracle
6 5 (2.98%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.38%) Databricks
7 4 (2.38%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.79%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.79%) Solace
8 3 (1.79%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.19%) Citrix
9 2 (1.19%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.19%) FIS
9 2 (1.19%) Reuters
9 2 (1.19%) Splunk
9 2 (1.19%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.60%) Refinitiv