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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 212 156
Rank change year-on-year -153 -56 +79
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 245 355 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.30% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 3.74% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 316 533
10th Percentile £510 £550 £563
25th Percentile £663 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 - -
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 14,857 9,496 10,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.13% 34.85% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,216 6,009 7,116
10th Percentile £317 £306 £300
25th Percentile £421 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 472 687
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.85 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -20.36% +3.57%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.98 £80.00 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -22.08% +10.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -109 232 £750 - 76
North of England -69 6 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Midlands -46 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 -
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 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.35%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.04%) Fidessa
2 5 (2.04%) Summit
3 4 (1.63%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.41%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.84%) AWS
2 35 (14.29%) GCP
3 31 (12.65%) Azure
4 14 (5.71%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.08%) Serverless
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.04%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.22%) Datadog
9 3 (1.22%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.82%) Collibra
10 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) Multicast
2 4 (1.63%) VPN
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.27%) Metadata
4 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.04%) KDB
6 5 (2.04%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.04%) Power BI
6 5 (2.04%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.63%) Tableau
8 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) Power Query
9 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.04%) Git
4 4 (1.63%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.63%) ERwin
4 4 (1.63%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.22%) GitLab
5 3 (1.22%) Mocha
5 3 (1.22%) MSTest
5 3 (1.22%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.82%) JMeter
6 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.41%) Storybook
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 162 (66.12%) Front Office
2 161 (65.71%) Finance
3 99 (40.41%) Banking
4 64 (26.12%) Investment Banking
5 47 (19.18%) Social Skills
6 37 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.12%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.45%) Back Office
9 5 (2.04%) Law
10 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) French Language
12 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 126 (51.43%) Developer
2 61 (24.90%) Software Engineer
3 58 (23.67%) Java Developer
4 55 (22.45%) Senior
5 51 (20.82%) Lead
6 48 (19.59%) React Developer
7 45 (18.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 43 (17.55%) Analyst
8 43 (17.55%) Senior Developer
9 39 (15.92%) Business Analyst
10 38 (15.51%) Lead Developer
10 38 (15.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 33 (13.47%) UI Developer
12 32 (13.06%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (13.06%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (11.02%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (11.02%) Senior UI Developer
14 19 (7.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 16 (6.53%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (37.55%) React
2 86 (35.10%) Redux
3 56 (22.86%) Node.js
4 39 (15.92%) Kafka
5 33 (13.47%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.35%) .NET
7 12 (4.90%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.90%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.27%) Vue
9 7 (2.86%) HTML
9 7 (2.86%) OpenFin
10 6 (2.45%) Middleware
10 6 (2.45%) Pandas
10 6 (2.45%) XML
11 5 (2.04%) CSS
11 5 (2.04%) NumPy
11 5 (2.04%) RESTful
12 4 (1.63%) PySpark
12 4 (1.63%) REST
13 3 (1.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 84 (34.29%) Equities
2 77 (31.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (23.67%) Derivative
4 29 (11.84%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.12%) Market Risk
6 11 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.49%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.08%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.45%) Credit Risk
10 6 (2.45%) Hedge funds
11 5 (2.04%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.98%) Linux
2 19 (7.76%) Unix
3 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (38.37%) Agile
2 74 (30.20%) Software Engineering
3 73 (29.80%) Electronic Trading
4 63 (25.71%) Investment Management
4 63 (25.71%) Low Latency
5 56 (22.86%) Portfolio Management
6 47 (19.18%) Order Management
7 41 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.92%) Asset Management
8 39 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (14.69%) CI/CD
10 29 (11.84%) Analytics
10 29 (11.84%) Mentoring
11 24 (9.80%) AI
11 24 (9.80%) Validation
12 23 (9.39%) Fintech
12 23 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (8.98%) Risk Management
13 22 (8.98%) Test Automation
14 21 (8.57%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 104 (42.45%) Python
2 102 (41.63%) Java
3 92 (37.55%) JavaScript
3 92 (37.55%) TypeScript
4 51 (20.82%) SQL
5 41 (16.73%) C#
6 32 (13.06%) Go
7 12 (4.90%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.45%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.63%) C++
10 3 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.80%) Degree
2 12 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.63%) PhD
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ACCA
5 1 (0.41%) CFA
5 1 (0.41%) CISA
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.86%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) MiFID
4 2 (0.82%) GAAP
4 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.41%) EMIR
5 1 (0.41%) ITGC
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.04%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.04%) Ansible
3 4 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.63%) Terraform
4 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.35%) Murex
2 14 (5.71%) Charles River
3 11 (4.49%) Oracle
4 9 (3.67%) Solace
5 8 (3.27%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.45%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.45%) Tradeweb
7 5 (2.04%) Sybase
8 4 (1.63%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.63%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.22%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.41%) Advent
11 1 (0.41%) Calypso
11 1 (0.41%) Citrix
11 1 (0.41%) FactSet
11 1 (0.41%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.41%) Reuters
11 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.41%) SunGard