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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 180 214
Rank change year-on-year -204 +34 +51
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 213 359 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 1.47% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 4.32% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 332 375
10th Percentile £538 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £846 £875 £850
90th Percentile £881 £938 £923
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 12,856 8,306 11,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.79% 34.09% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 5,460 7,564
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -0.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 312 820
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.28
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £58.71
90th Percentile £85.49 £85.00 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +38.46% +15.56% +25.08%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -122 210 £750 +3.45% 38
North of England -73 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 - 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 5 (2.35%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.16%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.82%) Summit
3 5 (2.35%) Loan IQ
4 4 (1.88%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.21%) AWS
2 30 (14.08%) GCP
3 29 (13.62%) Azure
4 11 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (4.69%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.76%) GitHub
6 8 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.88%) SaaS
9 3 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.41%) Serverless
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.94%) Collibra
10 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.94%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.29%) KDB
3 7 (3.29%) Kdb+
3 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.82%) Flink
4 6 (2.82%) Metadata
4 6 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.88%) Power BI
5 4 (1.88%) Tableau
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.94%) Power Query
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.69%) JIRA
2 7 (3.29%) Git
2 7 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.41%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.94%) Maven
4 2 (0.94%) Selenium
4 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.47%) Mocha
5 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.47%) MSTest
5 1 (0.47%) NUnit
5 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 142 (66.67%) Finance
2 122 (57.28%) Front Office
3 73 (34.27%) Banking
4 53 (24.88%) Social Skills
5 41 (19.25%) Investment Banking
6 39 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (10.33%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Back Office
9 3 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (51.17%) Developer
2 50 (23.47%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 44 (20.66%) Lead
4 41 (19.25%) Analyst
5 40 (18.78%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.37%) Lead Developer
7 32 (15.02%) Java Developer
7 32 (15.02%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (15.02%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (14.55%) Senior
9 27 (12.68%) Python Developer
10 22 (10.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (9.86%) Senior Developer
12 20 (9.39%) React Developer
13 18 (8.45%) Python Engineer
14 17 (7.98%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 12 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
16 11 (5.16%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.76%) React
2 54 (25.35%) Redux
3 50 (23.47%) Kafka
3 50 (23.47%) Node.js
4 32 (15.02%) GraphQL
5 14 (6.57%) .NET
6 11 (5.16%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.23%) REST
8 8 (3.76%) Vue
8 8 (3.76%) XML
9 7 (3.29%) Pandas
10 6 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.82%) NumPy
11 5 (2.35%) Dask
11 5 (2.35%) HTML
11 5 (2.35%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.88%) HTML5
12 4 (1.88%) RESTful
12 4 (1.88%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.41%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (30.05%) Equities
2 56 (26.29%) Derivative
3 39 (18.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.63%) Reference Data
5 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.23%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.76%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.29%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.82%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.35%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.88%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Linux
2 16 (7.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (36.62%) Agile
2 59 (27.70%) Software Engineering
3 58 (27.23%) Investment Management
4 54 (25.35%) Electronic Trading
5 53 (24.88%) Portfolio Management
6 45 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (16.43%) Order Management
8 34 (15.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (14.55%) Asset Management
10 28 (13.15%) CI/CD
11 26 (12.21%) Analytics
11 26 (12.21%) Low Latency
12 25 (11.74%) Fintech
13 24 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.80%) DevOps
15 22 (10.33%) AI
16 21 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (9.39%) Risk Management
18 18 (8.45%) Machine Learning
18 18 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (52.58%) Python
2 73 (34.27%) Java
3 60 (28.17%) JavaScript
3 60 (28.17%) TypeScript
4 57 (26.76%) SQL
5 32 (15.02%) Go
6 12 (5.63%) C#
7 7 (3.29%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.88%) C++
9 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.94%) Perl
9 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (11.27%) Degree
2 8 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.29%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.35%) PhD
5 2 (0.94%) CISM
5 2 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.47%) ACCA
6 1 (0.47%) CFA
6 1 (0.47%) CISA
6 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) QA
2 12 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.41%) GDPR
3 3 (1.41%) IFRS
4 2 (0.94%) MiFID
4 2 (0.94%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) EMIR
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (6.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 19 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.76%) Terraform
3 6 (2.82%) Argo
4 5 (2.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (6.57%) Murex
2 13 (6.10%) Bloomberg
2 13 (6.10%) Oracle
3 11 (5.16%) ION Trading
4 9 (4.23%) Charles River
5 8 (3.76%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.35%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.88%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.41%) Databricks
8 3 (1.41%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.41%) Sybase
9 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.94%) Citrix
9 2 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.94%) Reuters
9 2 (0.94%) Solace
9 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.94%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.47%) FIS
10 1 (0.47%) Refinitiv