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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 195 257
Rank change year-on-year -175 +62 +24
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 211 339 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.39% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 4.10% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 308 328
10th Percentile £505 £588 £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 £825 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £966
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 12,455 8,271 11,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 33.80% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 5,364 7,620
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £749 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 305 788
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.70 £12.59
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.27 £15.42
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +17.86% +17.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.90 £84.60 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.32 £32.50 £27.75
% change year-on-year +11.75% +17.12% +23.33%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -106 208 £750 +3.45% 39
North of England -70 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 6 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.84%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
3 5 (2.37%) Summit
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.97%) AWS
2 30 (14.22%) GCP
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 14 (6.64%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.32%) GitHub
6 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.90%) SaaS
9 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.42%) Serverless
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.95%) Collibra
10 2 (0.95%) dbt
10 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.74%) KDB
3 10 (4.74%) Kdb+
4 6 (2.84%) Flink
4 6 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.37%) Metadata
5 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.90%) Power BI
7 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.95%) Dremio
8 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.95%) Power Query
8 2 (0.95%) Tableau
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.74%) JIRA
2 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.84%) Git
4 3 (1.42%) QUnit
4 3 (1.42%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.47%) MSTest
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 144 (68.25%) Finance
2 125 (59.24%) Front Office
3 69 (32.70%) Banking
4 55 (26.07%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Investment Banking
6 17 (8.06%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.84%) Back Office
7 6 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.37%) Legal
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 103 (48.82%) Developer
2 50 (23.70%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 44 (20.85%) Lead
4 37 (17.54%) Business Analyst
4 37 (17.54%) Lead Developer
5 36 (17.06%) Analyst
6 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Developer
6 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 27 (12.80%) Python Developer
8 25 (11.85%) Senior
9 24 (11.37%) Java Developer
10 19 (9.00%) Python Engineer
11 18 (8.53%) React Developer
12 16 (7.58%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 15 (7.11%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Quantitative Developer
15 11 (5.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 11 (5.21%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (24.64%) React
2 50 (23.70%) Kafka
2 50 (23.70%) Redux
3 49 (23.22%) Node.js
4 32 (15.17%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.69%) REST
6 11 (5.21%) .NET
7 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.74%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (4.74%) XML
8 9 (4.27%) Pandas
9 8 (3.79%) NumPy
9 8 (3.79%) Vue
10 6 (2.84%) Dask
11 5 (2.37%) HTML
11 5 (2.37%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.42%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.12%) Equities
2 60 (28.44%) Derivative
3 41 (19.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.58%) Cloud Native
5 14 (6.64%) Algorithms
6 13 (6.16%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (3.79%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.79%) Hedge funds
9 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
10 7 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.32%) Market Risk
11 5 (2.37%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.90%) OTC Derivatives
13 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.95%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.74%) Linux
2 17 (8.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.91%) Agile
2 60 (28.44%) Investment Management
3 59 (27.96%) Software Engineering
4 54 (25.59%) Portfolio Management
5 47 (22.27%) Electronic Trading
6 45 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (17.06%) Order Management
8 34 (16.11%) Asset Management
9 31 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (13.27%) CI/CD
11 26 (12.32%) Fintech
12 25 (11.85%) Analytics
12 25 (11.85%) DevOps
12 25 (11.85%) Risk Management
13 23 (10.90%) Low Latency
13 23 (10.90%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (9.00%) AI
15 19 (9.00%) Machine Learning
16 18 (8.53%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (54.98%) Python
2 63 (29.86%) Java
3 61 (28.91%) SQL
4 58 (27.49%) TypeScript
5 57 (27.01%) JavaScript
6 32 (15.17%) Go
7 8 (3.79%) C#
8 7 (3.32%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) C++
9 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.95%) Perl
10 2 (0.95%) VBA
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.47%) Tcl
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.37%) Degree
2 9 (4.27%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.84%) PhD
5 2 (0.95%) CISM
5 2 (0.95%) CISSP
5 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.58%) QA
2 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.42%) IFRS
4 2 (0.95%) MiFID
4 2 (0.95%) NIST
4 2 (0.95%) 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 14 (6.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 20 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Terraform
3 6 (2.84%) Argo
4 5 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.95%) Kibana
6 2 (0.95%) logstash
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Murex
2 16 (7.58%) ION Trading
3 14 (6.64%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.69%) Charles River
5 11 (5.21%) Oracle
6 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.37%) Solace
7 5 (2.37%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.90%) MarketAxess
8 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.42%) Databricks
9 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.42%) Sybase
10 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.95%) Citrix
10 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.95%) FIS
10 2 (0.95%) Reuters
10 2 (0.95%) Splunk
10 2 (0.95%) Vermilion