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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 203 261
Rank change year-on-year -170 +58 +10
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 206 334 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.31% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 3.89% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 299 307
10th Percentile £516 £588 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £844
90th Percentile £901 £938 £968
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +0.84%
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 12,311 8,582 11,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.83% 33.59% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,799 5,391 7,624
10th Percentile £290 £281 £258
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £546
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.14% -5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £669 £658
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 275 763
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.83 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.75 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +19.00% +34.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.36 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.08
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.05% +33.78%

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 6 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 6 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 -100 203 £750 +3.45% 33
North of England -63 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 -
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 (2.91%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.94%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.91%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.43%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.97%) Summit
5 1 (0.49%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.49%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.38%) AWS
2 30 (14.56%) GCP
3 27 (13.11%) Azure
4 13 (6.31%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (2.91%) GitHub
6 6 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.91%) SaaS
7 5 (2.43%) dbt
8 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.97%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.97%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.97%) Serverless
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.49%) Collibra
10 1 (0.49%) npm
10 1 (0.49%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.49%) HTTP
1 1 (0.49%) Multicast
1 1 (0.49%) RTMP
1 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.49%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.34%) KDB
2 11 (5.34%) Kdb+
3 7 (3.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.91%) Flink
5 5 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.43%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (2.43%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.43%) Dremio
6 4 (1.94%) Apache Ignite
6 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.97%) Metadata
7 2 (0.97%) Power BI
7 2 (0.97%) Power Query
7 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.34%) JIRA
2 6 (2.91%) Git
3 5 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.46%) QUnit
4 3 (1.46%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.49%) GitLab
6 1 (0.49%) Mocha
6 1 (0.49%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.49%) MSTest
6 1 (0.49%) NUnit
6 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 140 (67.96%) Finance
2 123 (59.71%) Front Office
3 61 (29.61%) Banking
4 49 (23.79%) Social Skills
5 38 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (16.50%) Investment Banking
7 15 (7.28%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.91%) Back Office
9 5 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.43%) Legal
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 103 (50.00%) Developer
2 53 (25.73%) Software Engineer
3 45 (21.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 41 (19.90%) Lead
5 36 (17.48%) Lead Developer
6 35 (16.99%) Business Analyst
7 32 (15.53%) Analyst
7 32 (15.53%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (15.53%) Lead Software Engineer
8 27 (13.11%) Python Developer
9 24 (11.65%) Senior
10 21 (10.19%) Java Developer
10 21 (10.19%) Python Engineer
10 21 (10.19%) React Developer
11 13 (6.31%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 13 (6.31%) Quantitative Developer
11 13 (6.31%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.70%) React
2 49 (23.79%) Kafka
2 49 (23.79%) Node.js
2 49 (23.79%) Redux
3 32 (15.53%) GraphQL
4 13 (6.31%) REST
5 11 (5.34%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.34%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (5.34%) Pandas
6 10 (4.85%) NumPy
7 9 (4.37%) .NET
7 9 (4.37%) Vue
8 7 (3.40%) HTML
8 7 (3.40%) XML
9 6 (2.91%) Dask
10 5 (2.43%) CSS
10 5 (2.43%) Reactive Extensions
10 5 (2.43%) SciPy
11 4 (1.94%) HTML5
11 4 (1.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (35.44%) Equities
2 61 (29.61%) Derivative
3 49 (23.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.25%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.31%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.34%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.34%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.85%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.40%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.43%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.94%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.94%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.94%) Pricing Data
12 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.11%) Linux
2 11 (5.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.81%) Agile
2 64 (31.07%) Investment Management
3 63 (30.58%) Software Engineering
4 52 (25.24%) Portfolio Management
5 44 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (19.90%) Electronic Trading
7 35 (16.99%) Asset Management
7 35 (16.99%) Order Management
8 29 (14.08%) Fintech
8 29 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (12.14%) Analytics
9 25 (12.14%) Risk Management
10 24 (11.65%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.68%) Mentoring
12 20 (9.71%) DevOps
12 20 (9.71%) Low Latency
12 20 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.74%) AI
13 18 (8.74%) Line Management
14 17 (8.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 113 (54.85%) Python
2 61 (29.61%) Java
3 60 (29.13%) JavaScript
3 60 (29.13%) TypeScript
4 53 (25.73%) SQL
5 32 (15.53%) Go
6 7 (3.40%) C#
7 5 (2.43%) C++
7 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.46%) VBA
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.49%) Tcl
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.68%) Degree
2 10 (4.85%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.91%) PhD
4 2 (0.97%) CISM
4 2 (0.97%) CISSP
4 2 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) ACCA
5 1 (0.49%) CFA
5 1 (0.49%) CISA
5 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.28%) QA
2 9 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.46%) GDPR
3 3 (1.46%) IFRS
4 2 (0.97%) MiFID
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) Basel III
5 1 (0.49%) EMIR
5 1 (0.49%) GAAP
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) ITGC
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.91%) Argo
2 6 (2.91%) Terraform
3 5 (2.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.97%) Kibana
5 2 (0.97%) logstash
6 1 (0.49%) Grafana
6 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (7.77%) ION Trading
1 16 (7.77%) Murex
2 14 (6.80%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.85%) Charles River
4 6 (2.91%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.91%) Oracle
5 5 (2.43%) Tradeweb
6 4 (1.94%) MarketAxess
7 3 (1.46%) Databricks
7 3 (1.46%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.46%) Solace
7 3 (1.46%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.97%) Citrix
8 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.97%) FIS
8 2 (0.97%) Reuters
8 2 (0.97%) Splunk
8 2 (0.97%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase