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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 212 146
Rank change year-on-year -181 -66 +86
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 232 345 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.25% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 3.53% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 309 537
10th Percentile £500 £548 £550
25th Percentile £658 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £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 15,242 9,778 10,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.44% 35.32% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,359 6,185 6,651
10th Percentile £325 £306 £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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 486 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.56 £30.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% -34.94% +15.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +12.98%

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 12 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 12 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 -130 218 £750 - 388
North of England -67 7 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 - 1
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -50 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 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.86%) MTS
2 1 (0.43%) CMS
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.16%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.72%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.72%) Summit
4 1 (0.43%) Actimize
4 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.43%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.16%) AWS
2 28 (12.07%) GCP
3 25 (10.78%) Azure
4 14 (6.03%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.31%) Serverless
6 8 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.72%) Datadog
10 3 (1.29%) GitHub
10 3 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.86%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.43%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.59%) Multicast
2 4 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.45%) Metadata
4 7 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.59%) Power BI
5 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.72%) Tableau
8 3 (1.29%) KDB
8 3 (1.29%) Kdb+
9 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) Power Query
10 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) JIRA
2 7 (3.02%) Git
2 7 (3.02%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.16%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.16%) ERwin
3 5 (2.16%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (1.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.86%) JMeter
5 2 (0.86%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.86%) Maven
5 2 (0.86%) Mocha
5 2 (0.86%) MSTest
5 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.86%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.43%) Storybook
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (67.24%) Front Office
2 152 (65.52%) Finance
3 101 (43.53%) Banking
4 68 (29.31%) Investment Banking
5 42 (18.10%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.03%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.02%) Back Office
9 5 (2.16%) Law
10 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) French Language
12 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 112 (48.28%) Developer
2 58 (25.00%) Senior
3 54 (23.28%) Java Developer
4 50 (21.55%) Software Engineer
5 45 (19.40%) Senior Developer
6 44 (18.97%) React Developer
7 43 (18.53%) Lead
8 38 (16.38%) Analyst
8 38 (16.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 34 (14.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 32 (13.79%) UI Developer
11 31 (13.36%) Business Analyst
12 29 (12.50%) Lead Developer
13 27 (11.64%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (11.64%) Senior UI Developer
14 24 (10.34%) Lead Software Developer
14 24 (10.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (6.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 13 (5.60%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
17 12 (5.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (35.34%) React
2 76 (32.76%) Redux
3 44 (18.97%) Node.js
4 29 (12.50%) Kafka
5 25 (10.78%) GraphQL
6 15 (6.47%) .NET
7 11 (4.74%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.02%) OpenFin
10 6 (2.59%) Middleware
10 6 (2.59%) Pandas
10 6 (2.59%) PySpark
10 6 (2.59%) Vue
11 5 (2.16%) NumPy
11 5 (2.16%) REST
12 4 (1.72%) CSS
12 4 (1.72%) Flask
12 4 (1.72%) HTML
12 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (34.48%) Equities
2 79 (34.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 61 (26.29%) Derivative
4 30 (12.93%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.47%) Market Risk
6 12 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.17%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.31%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.02%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.59%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.16%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.16%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.78%) Linux
2 20 (8.62%) Unix
3 4 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.34%) Agile
2 67 (28.88%) Electronic Trading
3 64 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 62 (26.72%) Low Latency
5 51 (21.98%) Investment Management
6 44 (18.97%) Portfolio Management
7 41 (17.67%) Order Management
8 36 (15.52%) Asset Management
9 35 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.66%) CI/CD
11 27 (11.64%) Analytics
11 27 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (11.21%) Validation
13 23 (9.91%) Mentoring
14 22 (9.48%) AI
15 20 (8.62%) DevOps
15 20 (8.62%) Fintech
15 20 (8.62%) Risk Management
16 19 (8.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.95%) Java
2 92 (39.66%) Python
3 81 (34.91%) JavaScript
3 81 (34.91%) TypeScript
4 52 (22.41%) SQL
5 45 (19.40%) C#
6 24 (10.34%) Go
7 12 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.02%) C++
9 6 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.72%) Bash
10 4 (1.72%) C
11 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.86%) Tcl
12 2 (0.86%) VBA
13 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (9.05%) Degree
2 11 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.16%) PhD
4 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.43%) ACCA
6 1 (0.43%) CISA
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.16%) MiFID
2 5 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (0.86%) GAAP
3 2 (0.86%) IFRS
4 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.43%) EMIR
4 1 (0.43%) ITGC
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.59%) Docker
1 6 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.86%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (2.16%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) Ansible
3 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) Argo
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (6.90%) Murex
2 13 (5.60%) Charles River
3 10 (4.31%) Bloomberg
4 9 (3.88%) Oracle
4 9 (3.88%) Solace
4 9 (3.88%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.45%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.59%) Sybase
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.29%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.29%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.86%) Calypso
9 2 (0.86%) FIS
9 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.86%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.43%) Databricks
10 1 (0.43%) FactSet
10 1 (0.43%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv