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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 185 250
Rank change year-on-year -186 +65 +23
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 211 347 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.43% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 4.19% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 314 339
10th Percentile £508 £588 £550
25th Percentile £631 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £938 £963
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
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 12,593 8,275 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.53% 34.10% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 5,407 7,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £670
90th Percentile £749 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 629 312 793
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £22.27 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.71 £33.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.48% +21.82% +17.17%
75th Percentile £69.25 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.90 £67.90
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

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 26 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 26 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 -106 208 £750 +3.45% 40
North of England -63 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 - 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 6 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.37%) ION MarketView
2 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.37%) Summit
3 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.44%) AWS
2 30 (14.22%) GCP
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 14 (6.64%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.32%) GitHub
6 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.90%) SaaS
9 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.42%) Serverless
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.95%) Collibra
10 2 (0.95%) dbt
10 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.32%) KDB
3 7 (3.32%) Kdb+
4 6 (2.84%) Flink
4 6 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.37%) Metadata
5 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.90%) Power BI
7 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.42%) Tableau
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.95%) Dremio
8 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.95%) Power Query
9 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 10 (4.74%) JIRA
2 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.84%) Git
4 3 (1.42%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.47%) MSTest
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 140 (66.35%) Finance
2 122 (57.82%) Front Office
3 69 (32.70%) Banking
4 55 (26.07%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Investment Banking
6 17 (8.06%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.84%) Back Office
7 6 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Legal
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 103 (48.82%) Developer
2 51 (24.17%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 44 (20.85%) Lead
4 37 (17.54%) Analyst
4 37 (17.54%) Business Analyst
4 37 (17.54%) Lead Developer
5 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Developer
5 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 27 (12.80%) Java Developer
6 27 (12.80%) Python Developer
7 25 (11.85%) Senior
8 20 (9.48%) Python Engineer
9 19 (9.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 18 (8.53%) React Developer
11 16 (7.58%) Senior Developer
12 14 (6.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (5.21%) Quantitative Developer
14 11 (5.21%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (24.64%) React
2 50 (23.70%) Kafka
2 50 (23.70%) Redux
3 49 (23.22%) Node.js
4 32 (15.17%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.69%) .NET
5 12 (5.69%) REST
6 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.74%) FIX Protocol
6 10 (4.74%) XML
7 9 (4.27%) Pandas
8 8 (3.79%) NumPy
8 8 (3.79%) Vue
9 6 (2.84%) Dask
10 5 (2.37%) HTML
10 5 (2.37%) Reactive Extensions
11 4 (1.90%) HTML5
11 4 (1.90%) RESTful
11 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.42%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 71 (33.65%) Equities
2 60 (28.44%) Derivative
3 41 (19.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.58%) Cloud Native
5 13 (6.16%) Reference Data
6 11 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 11 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.79%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.79%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (3.32%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.37%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.90%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.95%) Pricing Data
13 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.80%) Linux
2 14 (6.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.39%) Agile
2 60 (28.44%) Investment Management
2 60 (28.44%) Software Engineering
3 54 (25.59%) Portfolio Management
4 50 (23.70%) Electronic Trading
5 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.06%) Order Management
7 34 (16.11%) Asset Management
8 31 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (13.74%) CI/CD
10 26 (12.32%) Fintech
11 25 (11.85%) DevOps
11 25 (11.85%) Low Latency
12 24 (11.37%) Analytics
13 23 (10.90%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.95%) Risk Management
16 19 (9.00%) AI
16 19 (9.00%) Machine Learning
17 17 (8.06%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (55.45%) Python
2 66 (31.28%) Java
3 61 (28.91%) SQL
4 58 (27.49%) TypeScript
5 57 (27.01%) JavaScript
6 32 (15.17%) Go
7 9 (4.27%) C#
8 7 (3.32%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.90%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Tcl
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.90%) Degree
2 8 (3.79%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.84%) PhD
5 2 (0.95%) CISM
5 2 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.47%) ACCA
6 1 (0.47%) CFA
6 1 (0.47%) CISA
6 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.58%) QA
2 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.42%) IFRS
4 2 (0.95%) MiFID
4 2 (0.95%) NIST
4 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) EMIR
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 20 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Terraform
3 6 (2.84%) Argo
4 5 (2.37%) Ansible
4 5 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.95%) Kibana
5 2 (0.95%) logstash
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Murex
2 15 (7.11%) ION Trading
3 14 (6.64%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.69%) Charles River
5 11 (5.21%) Oracle
6 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.37%) Solace
7 5 (2.37%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.90%) MarketAxess
8 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.42%) Databricks
9 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.42%) Sybase
10 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.95%) Citrix
10 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.95%) FIS
10 2 (0.95%) Reuters
10 2 (0.95%) Splunk
10 2 (0.95%) Vermilion