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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 191 176
Rank change year-on-year -192 -15 +67
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 221 348 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 1.44% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 4.19% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 317 474
10th Percentile £521 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £938 £938 £896
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £775
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%

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 13,584 8,305 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.35% 34.29% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,539 5,391 7,330
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.09% -3.76%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 345 833
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.27 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.01 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £34.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -3.23% +59.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £83.33 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.96 £33.05 £34.21
% change year-on-year +23.93% -3.39% +55.50%

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 31 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 31 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 -113 215 £750 - 16
North of England -76 3 £875 - 3
South West - 3 £875 - 1
North East - 2 £875 - 2
North West - 1 £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 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.71%) Summit
3 5 (2.26%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.90%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.45%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.03%) AWS
2 33 (14.93%) GCP
3 30 (13.57%) Azure
4 12 (5.43%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.71%) Serverless
6 5 (2.26%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.26%) SaaS
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.36%) GitHub
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.90%) Collibra
9 2 (0.90%) Datadog
9 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.90%) HTTP
1 2 (0.90%) Multicast
2 1 (0.45%) RTMP
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.07%) Metadata
5 6 (2.71%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.26%) KDB
6 5 (2.26%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.26%) Power BI
7 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.81%) Tableau
8 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.90%) Power Query
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.45%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.62%) JIRA
2 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.81%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.81%) ERwin
3 4 (1.81%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.36%) Git
5 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.90%) GitLab
5 2 (0.90%) JMeter
5 2 (0.90%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.90%) Maven
5 2 (0.90%) Mocha
5 2 (0.90%) MSTest
5 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.90%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 142 (64.25%) Finance
2 132 (59.73%) Front Office
3 78 (35.29%) Banking
4 50 (22.62%) Investment Banking
5 48 (21.72%) Social Skills
6 33 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.14%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.71%) Back Office
9 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Marketing
10 3 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (52.94%) Developer
2 53 (23.98%) Software Engineer
3 49 (22.17%) Lead
4 45 (20.36%) Java Developer
5 44 (19.91%) Analyst
5 44 (19.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 43 (19.46%) Business Analyst
6 43 (19.46%) Senior
7 37 (16.74%) Lead Developer
8 34 (15.38%) React Developer
9 32 (14.48%) Lead Software Developer
9 32 (14.48%) Lead Software Engineer
10 30 (13.57%) Senior Developer
11 26 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 21 (9.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 20 (9.05%) UI Developer
14 19 (8.60%) Python Developer
15 16 (7.24%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 15 (6.79%) Senior React Developer
16 15 (6.79%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (31.22%) React
2 66 (29.86%) Redux
3 50 (22.62%) Node.js
4 39 (17.65%) Kafka
5 33 (14.93%) GraphQL
6 16 (7.24%) .NET
7 12 (5.43%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.62%) Vue
8 8 (3.62%) XML
9 7 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (3.17%) Pandas
10 6 (2.71%) HTML
10 6 (2.71%) NumPy
11 5 (2.26%) REST
12 4 (1.81%) HTML5
12 4 (1.81%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.81%) RESTful
12 4 (1.81%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.36%) CSS
13 3 (1.36%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 75 (33.94%) Equities
2 56 (25.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (24.43%) Derivative
4 16 (7.24%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (7.24%) Reference Data
5 12 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.98%) Market Risk
7 9 (4.07%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.17%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.26%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.26%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.36%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.24%) Linux
2 13 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.94%) Agile
2 62 (28.05%) Software Engineering
3 61 (27.60%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (23.98%) Investment Management
5 52 (23.53%) Portfolio Management
6 41 (18.55%) Low Latency
7 39 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (15.84%) Order Management
9 34 (15.38%) Asset Management
9 34 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (12.67%) CI/CD
10 28 (12.67%) Mentoring
11 27 (12.22%) Analytics
12 25 (11.31%) AI
13 23 (10.41%) Fintech
14 21 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (8.60%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.60%) Risk Management
15 19 (8.60%) Test Automation
16 17 (7.69%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (44.80%) Python
2 85 (38.46%) Java
3 72 (32.58%) JavaScript
4 70 (31.67%) TypeScript
5 49 (22.17%) SQL
6 32 (14.48%) Go
7 25 (11.31%) C#
8 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.36%) C++
11 2 (0.90%) Bash
11 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.41%) Degree
2 9 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.36%) PhD
4 1 (0.45%) ACCA
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.45%) CFA
4 1 (0.45%) CISA
4 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.45%) PMP
4 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.52%) QA
3 5 (2.26%) MiFID
4 4 (1.81%) IFRS
5 2 (0.90%) EMIR
5 2 (0.90%) GAAP
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Basel III
6 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.45%) ITGC
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.71%) Terraform
3 4 (1.81%) Ansible
4 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (7.69%) Murex
2 14 (6.33%) Oracle
3 10 (4.52%) Charles River
4 7 (3.17%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.17%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.71%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.26%) Solace
7 4 (1.81%) Sybase
8 3 (1.36%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.90%) Citrix
9 2 (0.90%) Reuters
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.90%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.45%) Calypso
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks
10 1 (0.45%) FactSet
10 1 (0.45%) FIS
10 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.45%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.45%) TIBCO