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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 257 162
Rank change year-on-year -185 -95 +73
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 195 290 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 1.05% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 2.89% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 252 458
10th Percentile £513 £538 £563
25th Percentile £666 £659 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £877
90th Percentile - £875 £888
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 15,933 10,040 9,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 36.18% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 6,300 6,006
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
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 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,124 510 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -47.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.11 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £73.88 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.99% -41.46% +11.73%

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 30 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 30 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 -146 182 £725 -3.33% 258
North of England -76 7 £875 - 1
South West - 4 £875 - 8
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -38 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%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.51%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.72%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.56%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.03%) Actimize
4 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.51%) Summit
4 1 (0.51%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.28%) AWS
2 11 (5.64%) Azure
2 11 (5.64%) Snowflake
3 10 (5.13%) GCP
4 9 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.62%) Serverless
5 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.05%) Datadog
8 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.03%) GitHub
11 1 (0.51%) Dagster
11 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.51%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Multicast
2 4 (2.05%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.08%) KDB
3 6 (3.08%) Kdb+
4 5 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.56%) Metadata
5 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.05%) Power BI
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.03%) Tableau
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) JIRA
2 10 (5.13%) Git
3 6 (3.08%) GitLab
4 5 (2.56%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.56%) ERwin
4 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.56%) Storybook
4 5 (2.56%) Vite
5 3 (1.54%) QUnit
6 2 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) JMeter
6 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.03%) Mocha
6 2 (1.03%) MSTest
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
2 124 (63.59%) Finance
3 103 (52.82%) Banking
4 69 (35.38%) Investment Banking
5 42 (21.54%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.62%) 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%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (37.44%) Developer
2 65 (33.33%) Senior
3 42 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 38 (19.49%) Java Developer
5 32 (16.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 32 (16.41%) UI Developer
6 31 (15.90%) React Developer
7 30 (15.38%) Analyst
8 29 (14.87%) Business Analyst
9 27 (13.85%) Senior React Developer
9 27 (13.85%) Senior UI Developer
10 15 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.67%) Lead
12 9 (4.62%) C# Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (4.10%) Consultant
13 8 (4.10%) Quantitative Developer
14 7 (3.59%) Applications Support
14 7 (3.59%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.15%) React
2 45 (23.08%) Redux
3 13 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (6.15%) .NET
5 11 (5.64%) OpenFin
6 8 (4.10%) PySpark
7 7 (3.59%) Node.js
7 7 (3.59%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.59%) WebSockets
8 6 (3.08%) Kafka
8 6 (3.08%) Middleware
8 6 (3.08%) REST
9 5 (2.56%) CSS
9 5 (2.56%) Django
9 5 (2.56%) Flask
9 5 (2.56%) HTML
9 5 (2.56%) NumPy
9 5 (2.56%) Pandas
9 5 (2.56%) RxJS
9 5 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (41.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 71 (36.41%) Equities
3 51 (26.15%) Derivative
4 30 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.18%) Market Risk
6 13 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.64%) Reference Data
8 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.10%) Hedge funds
8 8 (4.10%) Virtual Team
9 7 (3.59%) Onboarding
10 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.56%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.54%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (1.54%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.38%) Linux
2 17 (8.72%) Unix
3 4 (2.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.82%) Electronic Trading
2 60 (30.77%) Low Latency
3 46 (23.59%) Agile
4 37 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (16.41%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.87%) Analytics
7 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
8 28 (14.36%) Validation
9 25 (12.82%) AI
10 24 (12.31%) Asset Management
11 23 (11.79%) Investment Management
12 22 (11.28%) Risk Management
12 22 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (9.74%) Business Analysis
13 19 (9.74%) Scrum
14 18 (9.23%) Requirements Gathering
14 18 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
15 17 (8.72%) Order Management
16 16 (8.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.36%) Java
2 54 (27.69%) Python
3 48 (24.62%) TypeScript
4 45 (23.08%) C#
4 45 (23.08%) SQL
5 43 (22.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.62%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.56%) C++
7 5 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.56%) Tcl
8 4 (2.05%) Bash
9 3 (1.54%) C
9 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) R
10 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (8.21%) Degree
2 8 (4.10%) 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
5 2 (1.03%) CFA
5 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.03%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.08%) MiFID
3 4 (2.05%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) GAAP
4 2 (1.03%) IFRS
5 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.51%) EMIR
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.08%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Argo
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.67%) Tradeweb
2 12 (6.15%) Bloomberg
3 11 (5.64%) Charles River
3 11 (5.64%) MarketAxess
4 10 (5.13%) Murex
5 8 (4.10%) Solace
6 7 (3.59%) Sybase
7 6 (3.08%) ION Trading
7 6 (3.08%) Oracle
8 4 (2.05%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.03%) Calypso
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) FIS
9 2 (1.03%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.03%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.51%) FactSet
10 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv