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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 172 192
Rank change year-on-year -210 +20 +65
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 207 384 441
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.58% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 4.61% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 351 421
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £831 £875 £863
90th Percentile £855 £938 £900
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 13,087 8,326 11,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.33% 34.16% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 5,451 7,499
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 665 329 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.60% +7.65% +40.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.90 £84.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +39.88% +7.76% +34.13%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -130 205 £750 - 41
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £725 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
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 3 (1.45%) Confluence
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.90%) Summit
3 5 (2.42%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.45%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.71%) AWS
2 31 (14.98%) GCP
3 29 (14.01%) Azure
4 11 (5.31%) Snowflake
5 9 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.90%) GitHub
6 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.93%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.93%) SaaS
8 3 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.45%) Serverless
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.97%) Collibra
9 2 (0.97%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.97%) HTTP
1 2 (0.97%) Multicast
2 1 (0.48%) RTMP
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.86%) Metadata
4 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.90%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.42%) KDB
6 5 (2.42%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.93%) Flink
7 4 (1.93%) Power BI
7 4 (1.93%) Tableau
8 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.97%) Power Query
10 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.48%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.38%) JIRA
2 6 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.42%) Git
4 2 (0.97%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.97%) ERwin
4 2 (0.97%) Maven
4 2 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.48%) Mocha
5 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.48%) MSTest
5 1 (0.48%) NUnit
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
5 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 135 (65.22%) Finance
2 113 (54.59%) Front Office
3 68 (32.85%) Banking
4 48 (23.19%) Social Skills
5 37 (17.87%) Investment Banking
6 35 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.70%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.93%) Marketing
10 3 (1.45%) Back Office
10 3 (1.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (51.69%) Developer
2 50 (24.15%) Software Engineer
3 46 (22.22%) Lead
4 44 (21.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 40 (19.32%) Analyst
6 39 (18.84%) Business Analyst
7 37 (17.87%) Lead Developer
8 32 (15.46%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (15.46%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (14.98%) Java Developer
9 31 (14.98%) Senior
10 27 (13.04%) Python Developer
11 21 (10.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (10.14%) Senior Developer
12 20 (9.66%) React Developer
13 16 (7.73%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 16 (7.73%) Python Engineer
14 13 (6.28%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (5.31%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.54%) React
2 54 (26.09%) Redux
3 50 (24.15%) Node.js
4 48 (23.19%) Kafka
5 32 (15.46%) GraphQL
6 13 (6.28%) .NET
7 11 (5.31%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.86%) Vue
8 8 (3.86%) XML
9 7 (3.38%) Pandas
10 6 (2.90%) NumPy
10 6 (2.90%) REST
11 5 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (2.42%) HTML
11 5 (2.42%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.93%) HTML5
12 4 (1.93%) RESTful
12 4 (1.93%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.45%) CSS
13 3 (1.45%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.99%) Equities
2 52 (25.12%) Derivative
3 38 (18.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (6.76%) Reference Data
5 11 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.35%) Market Risk
7 7 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.38%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.93%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.93%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (0.97%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.18%) Linux
2 16 (7.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.71%) Agile
2 58 (28.02%) Investment Management
3 57 (27.54%) Software Engineering
4 53 (25.60%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (25.60%) Portfolio Management
5 42 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (16.43%) Order Management
7 32 (15.46%) Asset Management
8 29 (14.01%) Analytics
9 26 (12.56%) Low Latency
10 25 (12.08%) CI/CD
10 25 (12.08%) Fintech
11 24 (11.59%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.11%) AI
13 19 (9.18%) DevOps
13 19 (9.18%) Risk Management
13 19 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.21%) Line Management
14 17 (8.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 109 (52.66%) Python
2 69 (33.33%) Java
3 59 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 59 (28.50%) TypeScript
4 55 (26.57%) SQL
5 32 (15.46%) Go
6 10 (4.83%) C#
7 8 (3.86%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.45%) C++
8 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.97%) Perl
9 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (9.18%) Degree
2 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.97%) CISM
3 2 (0.97%) CISSP
3 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.97%) PhD
4 1 (0.48%) ACCA
4 1 (0.48%) CFA
4 1 (0.48%) CISA
4 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.31%) QA
3 3 (1.45%) GDPR
3 3 (1.45%) IFRS
3 3 (1.45%) MiFID
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Basel III
5 1 (0.48%) EMIR
5 1 (0.48%) GAAP
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) ITGC
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) GridGain
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.86%) Terraform
3 5 (2.42%) Ansible
4 4 (1.93%) Argo
5 3 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (7.25%) Murex
2 13 (6.28%) Oracle
3 11 (5.31%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.35%) ION Trading
5 8 (3.86%) Charles River
6 6 (2.90%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.93%) Solace
8 3 (1.45%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.45%) Sybase
9 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.97%) Citrix
9 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.97%) Databricks
9 2 (0.97%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.97%) Reuters
9 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.97%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.97%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.48%) FIS