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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 259 167
Rank change year-on-year -180 -92 +85
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 187 284 484
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 1.01% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 2.78% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 245 446
10th Percentile £533 £538 £563
25th Percentile £656 £650 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £875
90th Percentile - £875 £888
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 15,907 10,228 10,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 36.40% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,560 6,400 6,068
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 533 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.62 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +6.15%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -154 174 £725 -3.33% 456
North of England -59 7 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South West - 4 £875 - 8
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -41 2 £875 +133.33% 2
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 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 5 (2.67%) MTS
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.07%) Solana
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (8.56%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.67%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.07%) Actimize
4 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.53%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.30%) AWS
2 13 (6.95%) Azure
3 10 (5.35%) GCP
3 10 (5.35%) Snowflake
4 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (4.28%) Serverless
5 6 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.14%) Datadog
7 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.53%) Dagster
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.53%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) Multicast
2 4 (2.14%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.74%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.74%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.67%) KDB
3 5 (2.67%) Kdb+
3 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.14%) Metadata
4 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.14%) Power BI
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.49%) JIRA
2 10 (5.35%) Git
3 6 (3.21%) GitLab
4 5 (2.67%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.67%) ERwin
4 5 (2.67%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.67%) Storybook
4 5 (2.67%) Vite
5 4 (2.14%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.60%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.60%) QUnit
6 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.07%) JMeter
7 2 (1.07%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.07%) Mocha
7 2 (1.07%) MSTest
7 2 (1.07%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.53%) Moq
8 1 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 121 (64.71%) Finance
1 121 (64.71%) Front Office
2 99 (52.94%) Banking
3 66 (35.29%) Investment Banking
4 42 (22.46%) Social Skills
5 30 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.35%) Back Office
7 8 (4.28%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.67%) Law
9 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.07%) Legal
9 2 (1.07%) Marketing
9 2 (1.07%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) French Language
10 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (37.43%) Developer
2 61 (32.62%) Senior
3 40 (21.39%) Senior Developer
4 34 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 30 (16.04%) UI Developer
6 29 (15.51%) React Developer
6 29 (15.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (14.97%) Analyst
8 26 (13.90%) Business Analyst
9 25 (13.37%) Senior React Developer
9 25 (13.37%) Senior UI Developer
10 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
11 12 (6.42%) Lead
12 9 (4.81%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (4.28%) C# Developer
13 8 (4.28%) Consultant
13 8 (4.28%) Quantitative Developer
14 7 (3.74%) Applications Support
14 7 (3.74%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.13%) React
2 42 (22.46%) Redux
3 14 (7.49%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (5.88%) .NET
4 11 (5.88%) OpenFin
5 10 (5.35%) PySpark
6 8 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.74%) REST
7 7 (3.74%) WebSockets
8 6 (3.21%) Django
8 6 (3.21%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.21%) Flask
8 6 (3.21%) Kafka
8 6 (3.21%) Middleware
8 6 (3.21%) Node.js
8 6 (3.21%) NumPy
8 6 (3.21%) Pandas
8 6 (3.21%) Spring
9 5 (2.67%) CSS
9 5 (2.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (41.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 73 (39.04%) Equities
3 52 (27.81%) Derivative
4 30 (16.04%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.49%) Market Risk
6 13 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.88%) Reference Data
8 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
9 8 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.28%) Hedge funds
10 7 (3.74%) Virtual Team
11 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
12 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (2.14%) OTC Derivatives
14 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.60%) Replication
14 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.58%) Linux
2 16 (8.56%) Unix
3 4 (2.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.41%) Electronic Trading
1 55 (29.41%) Low Latency
2 45 (24.06%) Agile
3 39 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (16.04%) Analytics
5 30 (16.04%) CI/CD
6 29 (15.51%) Software Engineering
7 28 (14.97%) Validation
8 23 (12.30%) Asset Management
8 23 (12.30%) Investment Management
9 22 (11.76%) AI
10 21 (11.23%) Risk Management
11 19 (10.16%) Scrum
11 19 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (9.09%) Business Analysis
12 17 (9.09%) Order Management
12 17 (9.09%) Project Management
12 17 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (8.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.55%) Java
2 53 (28.34%) Python
3 45 (24.06%) SQL
4 44 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 42 (22.46%) C#
6 39 (20.86%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.81%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.67%) C++
8 5 (2.67%) Tcl
9 4 (2.14%) Bash
9 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.60%) C
10 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.49%) Degree
2 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.67%) PhD
4 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.07%) CFA
5 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.07%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.21%) MiFID
3 4 (2.14%) QA
4 2 (1.07%) GAAP
4 2 (1.07%) IFRS
5 1 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.53%) EMIR
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.21%) Docker
1 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.07%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) Argo
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.95%) Tradeweb
2 12 (6.42%) Bloomberg
3 11 (5.88%) Charles River
3 11 (5.88%) MarketAxess
4 10 (5.35%) Murex
5 8 (4.28%) Solace
6 7 (3.74%) Sybase
7 6 (3.21%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.14%) Oracle
8 4 (2.14%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.60%) Databricks
9 3 (1.60%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.07%) Calypso
10 2 (1.07%) FIS
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.53%) BEA
11 1 (0.53%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.53%) SGI
11 1 (0.53%) SunGard