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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 215 143
Rank change year-on-year -166 -72 +88
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 236 349 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 1.26% 1.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 3.59% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 312 539
10th Percentile £520 £539 £550
25th Percentile £663 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £856 £888
90th Percentile £938 £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 15,191 9,714 10,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.37% 35.16% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,338 6,140 6,710
10th Percentile £324 £306 £302
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 484 555
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.05 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.35% -33.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.39
% change year-on-year +49.02% -33.54% +10.98%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -117 222 £750 - 141
North of England -64 7 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -51 2 £875 +133.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 1
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 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.42%) CMS
2 1 (0.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.63%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.12%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.69%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.69%) Summit
4 1 (0.42%) Actimize
4 1 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.42%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.51%) AWS
2 32 (13.56%) GCP
3 28 (11.86%) Azure
4 14 (5.93%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (3.81%) Serverless
6 7 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.54%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.27%) Datadog
10 3 (1.27%) GitHub
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.54%) Multicast
2 4 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.42%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.39%) Metadata
4 6 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.54%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.54%) Power BI
4 6 (2.54%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.69%) KDB
6 4 (1.69%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.69%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) Power Query
8 1 (0.42%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.24%) JIRA
2 6 (2.54%) Git
2 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.12%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.12%) ERwin
3 5 (2.12%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.27%) GitLab
5 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.85%) JMeter
5 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 2 (0.85%) Mocha
5 2 (0.85%) MSTest
5 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 158 (66.95%) Finance
2 157 (66.53%) Front Office
3 97 (41.10%) Banking
4 65 (27.54%) Investment Banking
5 43 (18.22%) Social Skills
6 34 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.36%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.54%) Back Office
9 5 (2.12%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) French Language
12 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 120 (50.85%) Developer
2 58 (24.58%) Software Engineer
3 56 (23.73%) Java Developer
3 56 (23.73%) Senior
4 48 (20.34%) Lead
5 46 (19.49%) React Developer
6 45 (19.07%) Senior Developer
7 42 (17.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 38 (16.10%) Analyst
8 38 (16.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 34 (14.41%) Lead Developer
10 32 (13.56%) Business Analyst
10 32 (13.56%) UI Developer
11 29 (12.29%) Lead Software Developer
11 29 (12.29%) Lead Software Engineer
12 27 (11.44%) Senior React Developer
12 27 (11.44%) Senior UI Developer
13 16 (6.78%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 14 (5.93%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 13 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (37.71%) React
2 82 (34.75%) Redux
3 52 (22.03%) Node.js
4 39 (16.53%) Kafka
5 33 (13.98%) GraphQL
6 16 (6.78%) .NET
7 12 (5.08%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.66%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.39%) Pandas
9 8 (3.39%) Vue
10 7 (2.97%) NumPy
10 7 (2.97%) OpenFin
11 6 (2.54%) Middleware
11 6 (2.54%) PySpark
12 5 (2.12%) REST
12 5 (2.12%) RESTful
13 4 (1.69%) CSS
13 4 (1.69%) Django
13 4 (1.69%) FastAPI
13 4 (1.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 79 (33.47%) Equities
2 76 (32.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (24.58%) Derivative
4 29 (12.29%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (6.78%) Market Risk
6 11 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.66%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.24%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.97%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.54%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.12%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.12%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.75%) Linux
2 21 (8.90%) Unix
3 4 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (38.14%) Agile
2 70 (29.66%) Software Engineering
3 67 (28.39%) Electronic Trading
4 62 (26.27%) Low Latency
5 59 (25.00%) Investment Management
6 52 (22.03%) Portfolio Management
7 49 (20.76%) Order Management
8 40 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (15.25%) Asset Management
9 36 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.41%) CI/CD
11 29 (12.29%) Analytics
12 27 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.17%) Validation
14 23 (9.75%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.90%) AI
15 21 (8.90%) Risk Management
16 19 (8.05%) Business Analysis
16 19 (8.05%) Fintech
16 19 (8.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.37%) Java
2 98 (41.53%) Python
3 88 (37.29%) JavaScript
3 88 (37.29%) TypeScript
4 52 (22.03%) SQL
5 43 (18.22%) C#
6 32 (13.56%) Go
7 13 (5.51%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.97%) C++
9 6 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.69%) C
11 3 (1.27%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.32%) Degree
2 12 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.69%) PhD
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.42%) ACCA
5 1 (0.42%) CISA
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
5 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.12%) MiFID
2 5 (2.12%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) GAAP
3 2 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.42%) EMIR
4 1 (0.42%) ITGC
4 1 (0.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.12%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 10 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (1.69%) Terraform
3 3 (1.27%) Ansible
3 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (7.20%) Murex
2 13 (5.51%) Charles River
3 9 (3.81%) Solace
4 8 (3.39%) Oracle
5 7 (2.97%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.54%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.54%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.69%) Sybase
8 3 (1.27%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.85%) Calypso
9 2 (0.85%) FIS
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.42%) Advent
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) Databricks
10 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.42%) Refinitiv