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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 237 154
Rank change year-on-year -199 -83 +85
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 195 305 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 1.11% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 3.08% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 275 494
10th Percentile £500 £543 £563
25th Percentile £650 £663 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%

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 15,482 9,903 10,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 35.93% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,374 6,220 6,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 495 428
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.48 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +24.59%
75th Percentile £68.94 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 September 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 September 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 -147 182 £725 -3.33% 510
North of England -70 7 £875 - 2
South West - 4 £875 - 6
North East - 4 £875 - 2
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -46 2 £875 +133.33% 2
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 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 5 (2.56%) MTS
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (8.21%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.56%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.54%) Summit
4 1 (0.51%) Actimize
4 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.51%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.77%) AWS
2 10 (5.13%) Snowflake
3 9 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (4.62%) Azure
3 9 (4.62%) GCP
3 9 (4.62%) Serverless
4 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.05%) Datadog
8 3 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
10 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.51%) Collibra
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Multicast
2 4 (2.05%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.59%) Metadata
2 7 (3.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.08%) Power BI
3 6 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.05%) KDB
5 4 (2.05%) Kdb+
5 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.05%) Tableau
6 3 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 13 (6.67%) JIRA
2 10 (5.13%) Git
3 7 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.56%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.56%) ERwin
4 5 (2.56%) GitLab
4 5 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.54%) Storybook
5 3 (1.54%) Vite
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) JMeter
6 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.03%) Maven
6 2 (1.03%) Mocha
6 2 (1.03%) MSTest
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.03%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 127 (65.13%) Front Office
2 114 (58.46%) Finance
3 101 (51.79%) Banking
4 68 (34.87%) Investment Banking
5 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.15%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.59%) Back Office
9 5 (2.56%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 75 (38.46%) Developer
2 62 (31.79%) Senior
3 45 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 45 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 37 (18.97%) Analyst
5 36 (18.46%) Senior Java Developer
6 32 (16.41%) Business Analyst
7 31 (15.90%) React Developer
7 31 (15.90%) UI Developer
8 27 (13.85%) Senior React Developer
8 27 (13.85%) Senior UI Developer
9 16 (8.21%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.67%) Lead
11 11 (5.64%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 11 (5.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Technical Business Analyst
13 9 (4.62%) C# Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Quantitative Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
15 7 (3.59%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.13%) React
2 43 (22.05%) Redux
3 13 (6.67%) .NET
3 13 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (4.62%) OpenFin
5 7 (3.59%) Node.js
6 6 (3.08%) Middleware
6 6 (3.08%) PySpark
6 6 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.56%) CSS
7 5 (2.56%) HTML
7 5 (2.56%) Kafka
7 5 (2.56%) REST
7 5 (2.56%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.05%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.05%) Flask
8 4 (2.05%) NumPy
8 4 (2.05%) Pandas
8 4 (2.05%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 79 (40.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 67 (34.36%) Equities
3 50 (25.64%) Derivative
4 29 (14.87%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (6.67%) Market Risk
6 12 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.62%) Reference Data
8 8 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.10%) Hedge funds
8 8 (4.10%) Virtual Team
9 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.56%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.05%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.05%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (1.54%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 19 (9.74%) Unix
3 4 (2.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.87%) Electronic Trading
2 63 (32.31%) Low Latency
3 44 (22.56%) Agile
4 37 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (15.90%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
8 26 (13.33%) Analytics
8 26 (13.33%) Validation
9 24 (12.31%) AI
9 24 (12.31%) Asset Management
10 21 (10.77%) Investment Management
10 21 (10.77%) Risk Management
11 19 (9.74%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (9.23%) Business Analysis
12 18 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (8.72%) Scrum
14 16 (8.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (8.21%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.41%) Java
2 55 (28.21%) Python
3 47 (24.10%) SQL
3 47 (24.10%) TypeScript
4 45 (23.08%) C#
5 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.64%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.08%) C++
8 5 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.56%) Tcl
9 4 (2.05%) Bash
10 3 (1.54%) C
10 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Degree
2 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.56%) PhD
4 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) CFA
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.08%) MiFID
1 6 (3.08%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) GAAP
2 2 (1.03%) IFRS
3 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.51%) EMIR
3 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Docker
1 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.03%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.08%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
3 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.03%) Argo
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (6.67%) Tradeweb
2 11 (5.64%) MarketAxess
3 10 (5.13%) Bloomberg
3 10 (5.13%) Charles River
3 10 (5.13%) Oracle
3 10 (5.13%) Solace
4 9 (4.62%) Murex
4 9 (4.62%) Sybase
5 6 (3.08%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.54%) SimCorp
6 3 (1.54%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.03%) Calypso
7 2 (1.03%) FIS
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) FactSet
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv