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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 158 234
Rank change year-on-year -82 +76 -9
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 308 520 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.11% 1.58% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 5.12% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 486 409
10th Percentile £543 £556 £550
25th Percentile £663 £644 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £825
90th Percentile £875 - £938
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -1.75%

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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -47 304 £750 -6.25% 62
Yorkshire -15 2 - -
North of England -16 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 84 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (15.58%) Apache
3 8 (2.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (11.69%) Aladdin
2 20 (6.49%) thinkFolio
3 7 (2.27%) Fidessa
4 6 (1.95%) ION Anvil
5 4 (1.30%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.65%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.65%) BondVision
Cloud Services
1 148 (48.05%) AWS
2 84 (27.27%) dbt
3 80 (25.97%) GCP
4 48 (15.58%) Snowflake
5 41 (13.31%) Azure
6 11 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.30%) Serverless
9 3 (0.97%) Figma
10 2 (0.65%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.65%) SaaS
11 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.32%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Multicast
3 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.32%) WAN
3 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
1 84 (27.27%) Apache Arrow
1 84 (27.27%) Apache Iceberg
1 84 (27.27%) Dremio
2 62 (20.13%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (15.58%) Apache Ignite
3 48 (15.58%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.22%) KDB
6 9 (2.92%) Power BI
7 7 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.95%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.62%) Data Mart
9 5 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.97%) Power Query
11 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.65%) Tableau
12 1 (0.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (3.90%) JIRA
2 6 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.65%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) QUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) JUnit
General
1 258 (83.77%) Finance
2 235 (76.30%) Front Office
3 131 (42.53%) Banking
4 83 (26.95%) Investment Banking
5 54 (17.53%) Social Skills
6 23 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (6.17%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.25%) Back Office
9 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Law
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (46.43%) Developer
2 142 (46.10%) Software Engineer
3 92 (29.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 84 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (27.27%) AWS Software Engineer
5 73 (23.70%) Python Engineer
6 72 (23.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 70 (22.73%) Analyst
8 67 (21.75%) Senior
9 65 (21.10%) Java Engineer
9 65 (21.10%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (17.86%) Business Analyst
11 49 (15.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 48 (15.58%) Senior Java Engineer
12 48 (15.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 40 (12.99%) Python Developer
14 36 (11.69%) AWS Developer
15 34 (11.04%) React Developer
16 32 (10.39%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 27 (8.77%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (32.47%) React
2 89 (28.90%) NumPy
3 88 (28.57%) Pandas
4 85 (27.60%) SciPy
5 74 (24.03%) Node.js
6 55 (17.86%) Redux
7 50 (16.23%) AngularJS
7 50 (16.23%) Vue
8 48 (15.58%) gRPC
8 48 (15.58%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (7.14%) .NET
9 22 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
10 17 (5.52%) .NET Framework
11 15 (4.87%) Kafka
12 12 (3.90%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.25%) REST
14 7 (2.27%) .NET Core
15 6 (1.95%) Middleware
15 6 (1.95%) Reactive Extensions
16 5 (1.62%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (51.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 136 (44.16%) Equities
3 111 (36.04%) Derivative
4 96 (31.17%) Hedge funds
5 48 (15.58%) Pricing Data
6 21 (6.82%) Onboarding
7 17 (5.52%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.55%) Algorithms
9 13 (4.22%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.92%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.62%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.30%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.97%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.97%) Grid Computing
13 3 (0.97%) Market Risk
14 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.12%) Linux
2 11 (3.57%) Unix
3 6 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (69.16%) Agile
2 175 (56.82%) Investment Management
3 160 (51.95%) Asset Management
4 156 (50.65%) Software Engineering
5 79 (25.65%) Fintech
6 53 (17.21%) Order Management
7 50 (16.23%) Risk Management
8 46 (14.94%) Analytics
9 45 (14.61%) Performance Attribution
10 40 (12.99%) Portfolio Management
11 37 (12.01%) Business Analysis
12 34 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (10.71%) TDD
14 32 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (9.42%) User Experience
16 26 (8.44%) Electronic Trading
17 24 (7.79%) Computer Science
17 24 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
19 22 (7.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 194 (62.99%) Python
2 143 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 139 (45.13%) TypeScript
4 93 (30.19%) Java
5 68 (22.08%) SQL
6 29 (9.42%) C#
7 12 (3.90%) Go
8 8 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.95%) C++
9 6 (1.95%) F#
10 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.65%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (6.49%) Degree
2 12 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.65%) CFA
4 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.65%) PMP
5 1 (0.32%) CBAP
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.25%) MiFID
2 9 (2.92%) QA
3 7 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.62%) EMIR
5 1 (0.32%) Basel III
5 1 (0.32%) FINRA
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (3.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (4.22%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (1.62%) Kibana
2 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.62%) logstash
3 4 (1.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.97%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (8.12%) BISAM
2 19 (6.17%) Calypso
3 18 (5.84%) ION Trading
3 18 (5.84%) Murex
4 16 (5.19%) Charles River
4 16 (5.19%) SimCorp
5 13 (4.22%) Bloomberg
6 10 (3.25%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.60%) Oracle
8 7 (2.27%) Databricks
9 6 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.95%) Reuters
9 6 (1.95%) Solace
9 6 (1.95%) Tradeweb
10 4 (1.30%) Portware
10 4 (1.30%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.97%) CQG
11 3 (0.97%) Splunk
11 3 (0.97%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow