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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 201 271
Rank change year-on-year -160 +70 -9
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 197 332 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.31% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 3.91% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 297 295
10th Percentile £500 £588 £563
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 £888 £838
90th Percentile £913 £938 £963
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £745
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.68% +0.68%
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 11,899 8,493 11,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 33.46% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,578 5,252 7,655
10th Percentile £283 £275 £256
25th Percentile £408 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 255 755
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.17 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.18 £16.54
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.05 £83.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £33.77 £30.58
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.43% +36.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -105 195 £750 +3.45% 27
North of England -67 2 - -
Yorkshire - 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 8 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.54%) Apache
3 5 (2.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.05%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (1.52%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.02%) Summit
5 1 (0.51%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.51%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.52%) AWS
2 26 (13.20%) GCP
3 21 (10.66%) Azure
4 13 (6.60%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.06%) dbt
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.05%) GitHub
7 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.05%) SaaS
8 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.02%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.02%) Serverless
9 1 (0.51%) Collibra
9 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.51%) npm
9 1 (0.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.51%) HTTP
1 1 (0.51%) Multicast
1 1 (0.51%) RTMP
1 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.58%) KDB
2 11 (5.58%) Kdb+
3 8 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (4.06%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (4.06%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (4.06%) Dremio
4 7 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.05%) Flink
5 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.54%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.02%) Metadata
7 2 (1.02%) Power BI
7 2 (1.02%) Power Query
7 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.51%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.51%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.09%) JIRA
2 6 (3.05%) Git
3 5 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.52%) QUnit
5 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.51%) GitLab
6 1 (0.51%) Mocha
6 1 (0.51%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.51%) MSTest
6 1 (0.51%) NUnit
6 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 133 (67.51%) Finance
2 114 (57.87%) Front Office
3 62 (31.47%) Banking
4 53 (26.90%) Social Skills
5 38 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (18.78%) Investment Banking
7 15 (7.61%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.55%) Back Office
9 5 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.54%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (46.70%) Developer
2 44 (22.34%) Software Engineer
3 38 (19.29%) Business Analyst
4 36 (18.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 33 (16.75%) Analyst
6 32 (16.24%) Lead
7 27 (13.71%) Lead Developer
7 27 (13.71%) Python Developer
8 25 (12.69%) Senior
9 24 (12.18%) Lead Software Developer
9 24 (12.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (11.17%) Python Engineer
11 18 (9.14%) Java Developer
12 16 (8.12%) React Developer
13 15 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.60%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (6.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 12 (6.09%) Senior Developer
16 11 (5.58%) Java Engineer
16 11 (5.58%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.84%) React
2 41 (20.81%) Kafka
3 39 (19.80%) Node.js
4 37 (18.78%) Redux
5 24 (12.18%) GraphQL
6 14 (7.11%) Pandas
7 13 (6.60%) NumPy
7 13 (6.60%) REST
8 11 (5.58%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.58%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (4.57%) Vue
10 8 (4.06%) .NET
10 8 (4.06%) HTML
10 8 (4.06%) SciPy
11 7 (3.55%) XML
12 6 (3.05%) Dask
13 5 (2.54%) gRPC
13 5 (2.54%) HTML5
13 5 (2.54%) Protocol Buffers
13 5 (2.54%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 71 (36.04%) Equities
2 58 (29.44%) Derivative
3 50 (25.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.63%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.60%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.58%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.58%) Hedge funds
6 11 (5.58%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (4.06%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.55%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (3.05%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.54%) Pricing Data
12 4 (2.03%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.03%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.02%) OTC Derivatives
13 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.21%) Linux
2 11 (5.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.55%) Agile
2 56 (28.43%) Investment Management
3 53 (26.90%) Software Engineering
4 45 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (20.81%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (20.30%) Portfolio Management
7 33 (16.75%) Asset Management
8 29 (14.72%) Order Management
9 27 (13.71%) Fintech
9 27 (13.71%) Risk Management
10 26 (13.20%) Analytics
11 23 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (11.17%) CI/CD
12 22 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (9.64%) DevOps
14 18 (9.14%) AI
14 18 (9.14%) Low Latency
15 17 (8.63%) Mentoring
16 16 (8.12%) Machine Learning
17 15 (7.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 105 (53.30%) Python
2 53 (26.90%) SQL
3 52 (26.40%) Java
4 51 (25.89%) JavaScript
5 49 (24.87%) TypeScript
6 24 (12.18%) Go
7 6 (3.05%) C#
8 5 (2.54%) C++
8 5 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.52%) VBA
11 2 (1.02%) Perl
11 2 (1.02%) Tcl
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (11.68%) Degree
2 10 (5.08%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.05%) PhD
4 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.02%) CISM
5 2 (1.02%) CISSP
5 2 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.02%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) ACCA
6 1 (0.51%) CFA
6 1 (0.51%) CISA
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) QA
2 9 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.52%) GDPR
3 3 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.02%) MiFID
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
4 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) Basel III
5 1 (0.51%) EMIR
5 1 (0.51%) GAAP
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) ITGC
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.05%) Argo
2 6 (3.05%) Terraform
3 5 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.02%) Kibana
5 2 (1.02%) logstash
6 1 (0.51%) Grafana
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.14%) ION Trading
2 14 (7.11%) Murex
3 13 (6.60%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.57%) Charles River
5 6 (3.05%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.05%) Oracle
6 5 (2.54%) Tradeweb
7 4 (2.03%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.52%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.52%) Solace
8 3 (1.52%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.02%) Citrix
9 2 (1.02%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.02%) Databricks
9 2 (1.02%) FIS
9 2 (1.02%) Reuters
9 2 (1.02%) Splunk
9 2 (1.02%) Sybase
9 2 (1.02%) Vermilion