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 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 216 145
Rank change year-on-year -196 -71 +89
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 220 334 563
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 1.21% 1.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 3.40% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 299 533
10th Percentile £480 £538 £550
25th Percentile £650 £644 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £900 £850 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 -
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 15,371 9,822 10,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.55% 35.48% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,431 6,193 6,639
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 492 536
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.22
Median hourly rate £42.71 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -33.69% +13.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.07% -34.44% +12.04%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -126 206 £750 - 372
North of England -61 7 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 - 1
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -45 2 £875 +133.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 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 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.91%) MTS
2 1 (0.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (8.18%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.82%) Summit
4 1 (0.45%) Actimize
4 1 (0.45%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.45%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.73%) AWS
2 21 (9.55%) GCP
3 20 (9.09%) Azure
4 14 (6.36%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.55%) Serverless
6 8 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.73%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.82%) Datadog
10 3 (1.36%) GitHub
10 3 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) Multicast
2 4 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.64%) Metadata
3 7 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.73%) Power BI
4 6 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.82%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.82%) Tableau
7 3 (1.36%) KDB
7 3 (1.36%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) Power Query
9 1 (0.45%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.00%) JIRA
2 7 (3.18%) Git
2 7 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.27%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.27%) ERwin
3 5 (2.27%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (1.82%) GitLab
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) JMeter
5 2 (0.91%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.91%) Maven
5 2 (0.91%) Mocha
5 2 (0.91%) MSTest
5 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.91%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.45%) Storybook
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 145 (65.91%) Front Office
2 140 (63.64%) Finance
3 102 (46.36%) Banking
4 69 (31.36%) Investment Banking
5 42 (19.09%) Social Skills
6 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.36%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.18%) Back Office
9 5 (2.27%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
12 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 100 (45.45%) Developer
2 58 (26.36%) Senior
3 52 (23.64%) Java Developer
4 45 (20.45%) Senior Developer
5 40 (18.18%) React Developer
6 39 (17.73%) Software Engineer
7 38 (17.27%) Analyst
7 38 (17.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (15.45%) Lead
9 31 (14.09%) Business Analyst
9 31 (14.09%) UI Developer
10 27 (12.27%) Senior React Developer
10 27 (12.27%) Senior UI Developer
11 23 (10.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 20 (9.09%) Lead Developer
13 16 (7.27%) Lead Software Developer
13 16 (7.27%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (6.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 13 (5.91%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 10 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.82%) React
2 64 (29.09%) Redux
3 32 (14.55%) Node.js
4 21 (9.55%) Kafka
5 17 (7.73%) GraphQL
6 16 (7.27%) .NET
7 11 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.18%) OpenFin
10 6 (2.73%) Middleware
10 6 (2.73%) Pandas
10 6 (2.73%) PySpark
11 5 (2.27%) NumPy
11 5 (2.27%) REST
12 4 (1.82%) CSS
12 4 (1.82%) Flask
12 4 (1.82%) HTML
12 4 (1.82%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.82%) Vue
12 4 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (35.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 77 (35.00%) Equities
3 57 (25.91%) Derivative
4 30 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.82%) Market Risk
6 12 (5.45%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.18%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.73%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.27%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.27%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.91%) Linux
2 20 (9.09%) Unix
3 4 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.82%) Agile
2 67 (30.45%) Electronic Trading
3 62 (28.18%) Low Latency
4 52 (23.64%) Software Engineering
5 39 (17.73%) Investment Management
6 36 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 33 (15.00%) Order Management
8 32 (14.55%) Asset Management
8 32 (14.55%) Portfolio Management
9 29 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (11.82%) Analytics
11 26 (11.82%) Validation
12 22 (10.00%) AI
13 21 (9.55%) Risk Management
14 19 (8.64%) DevOps
14 19 (8.64%) Mentoring
15 18 (8.18%) Business Analysis
15 18 (8.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.55%) Java
2 82 (37.27%) Python
3 69 (31.36%) JavaScript
3 69 (31.36%) TypeScript
4 52 (23.64%) SQL
5 46 (20.91%) C#
6 16 (7.27%) Go
7 11 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.73%) C++
8 6 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.82%) Bash
10 3 (1.36%) C
10 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.91%) Tcl
11 2 (0.91%) VBA
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (9.55%) Degree
2 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.27%) PhD
4 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) ACCA
6 1 (0.45%) CISA
6 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.45%) PMP
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.27%) MiFID
2 5 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (0.91%) GAAP
3 2 (0.91%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.45%) EMIR
4 1 (0.45%) ITGC
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.27%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 11 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (2.27%) Terraform
3 3 (1.36%) Ansible
3 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.45%) Argo
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (7.27%) Murex
2 13 (5.91%) Charles River
3 10 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.09%) Oracle
4 9 (4.09%) Solace
4 9 (4.09%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.64%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.73%) Sybase
7 4 (1.82%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.36%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.36%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.91%) Calypso
9 2 (0.91%) FIS
9 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.91%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks
10 1 (0.45%) FactSet
10 1 (0.45%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv