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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 183 224
Rank change year-on-year -190 +41 +56
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 219 358 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.47% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 4.30% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 328 362
10th Percentile £528 £559 £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 £849 £875 £850
90th Percentile £910 £938 £949
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 12,798 8,317 11,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.03% 34.13% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,139 5,454 7,584
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £674
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 639 312 804
10th Percentile £15.97 £16.67 £12.31
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.27 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +22.32% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.42 £84.90 £67.26
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +36.92% +16.07% +24.53%

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 5 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 5 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 -108 216 £750 +3.45% 40
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 6 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.28%) Confluence
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.02%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.28%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.28%) Summit
3 4 (1.83%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.46%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.46%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.16%) AWS
2 30 (13.70%) GCP
3 29 (13.24%) Azure
4 12 (5.48%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.65%) GitHub
6 8 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.83%) SaaS
9 3 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.37%) Serverless
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.91%) Collibra
10 2 (0.91%) dbt
10 2 (0.91%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.46%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Multicast
2 1 (0.46%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.48%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.65%) KDB
3 8 (3.65%) Kdb+
4 6 (2.74%) Flink
4 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.28%) Metadata
5 5 (2.28%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.83%) Power BI
6 4 (1.83%) Tableau
7 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.91%) Dremio
8 2 (0.91%) Power Query
9 1 (0.46%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.57%) JIRA
2 7 (3.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.74%) Git
4 3 (1.37%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) Maven
5 2 (0.91%) Selenium
5 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) Mocha
6 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.46%) MSTest
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 144 (65.75%) Finance
2 127 (57.99%) Front Office
3 75 (34.25%) Banking
4 55 (25.11%) Social Skills
5 43 (19.63%) Investment Banking
6 39 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.59%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.74%) Back Office
9 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 109 (49.77%) Developer
2 52 (23.74%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 44 (20.09%) Lead
4 42 (19.18%) Analyst
5 40 (18.26%) Business Analyst
6 37 (16.89%) Lead Developer
7 33 (15.07%) Java Developer
8 32 (14.61%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (14.61%) Lead Software Engineer
8 32 (14.61%) Senior
9 27 (12.33%) Python Developer
10 23 (10.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (9.59%) Senior Developer
12 20 (9.13%) Python Engineer
12 20 (9.13%) React Developer
13 18 (8.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.03%) React
2 54 (24.66%) Redux
3 50 (22.83%) Kafka
3 50 (22.83%) Node.js
4 32 (14.61%) GraphQL
5 13 (5.94%) .NET
6 11 (5.02%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.57%) REST
8 9 (4.11%) Pandas
9 8 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.65%) NumPy
9 8 (3.65%) Vue
9 8 (3.65%) XML
10 6 (2.74%) Dask
11 5 (2.28%) HTML
11 5 (2.28%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.83%) HTML5
12 4 (1.83%) RESTful
12 4 (1.83%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.37%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.51%) Equities
2 58 (26.48%) Derivative
3 43 (19.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.48%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.57%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.65%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.65%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.65%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.20%) Market Risk
10 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.28%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.83%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.37%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.42%) Linux
2 15 (6.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (36.53%) Agile
2 62 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 60 (27.40%) Investment Management
4 57 (26.03%) Electronic Trading
5 53 (24.20%) Portfolio Management
6 44 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.98%) Order Management
8 34 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (15.07%) Asset Management
10 28 (12.79%) CI/CD
11 27 (12.33%) Low Latency
12 26 (11.87%) Analytics
12 26 (11.87%) Fintech
13 24 (10.96%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.50%) DevOps
15 22 (10.05%) AI
16 21 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (9.13%) Risk Management
18 19 (8.68%) Machine Learning
19 17 (7.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.51%) Python
2 76 (34.70%) Java
3 62 (28.31%) JavaScript
3 62 (28.31%) TypeScript
4 59 (26.94%) SQL
5 32 (14.61%) Go
6 11 (5.02%) C#
7 8 (3.65%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.83%) C++
9 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.91%) Perl
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) Tcl
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (11.42%) Degree
2 8 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (3.65%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.74%) PhD
4 2 (0.91%) CISM
4 2 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.46%) ACCA
5 1 (0.46%) CFA
5 1 (0.46%) CISA
5 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.46%) PMP
5 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.31%) QA
2 12 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.37%) IFRS
4 2 (0.91%) MiFID
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Basel III
5 1 (0.46%) EMIR
5 1 (0.46%) GAAP
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) ITGC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 19 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.65%) Terraform
3 6 (2.74%) Argo
4 5 (2.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (6.39%) Bloomberg
1 14 (6.39%) ION Trading
1 14 (6.39%) Murex
2 11 (5.02%) Oracle
3 9 (4.11%) Charles River
4 8 (3.65%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.28%) Tradeweb
6 4 (1.83%) MarketAxess
7 3 (1.37%) Databricks
7 3 (1.37%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.37%) Sybase
8 2 (0.91%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.91%) Citrix
8 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.91%) FIS
8 2 (0.91%) Reuters
8 2 (0.91%) Solace
8 2 (0.91%) Splunk
8 2 (0.91%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv