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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 202 164
Rank change year-on-year -179 -38 +79
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 248 356 560
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.31% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 3.75% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 318 534
10th Percentile £515 £546 £554
25th Percentile £663 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £863 £872 £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 14,954 9,481 11,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.23% 34.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 6,018 7,214
10th Percentile £317 £306 £293
25th Percentile £420 £410 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 468 735
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.25 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.87 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -21.05% +20.63%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -102 235 £750 - 49
North of England -76 6 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Midlands -53 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 -
West Midlands - 2 £875 -
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 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (7.66%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.42%) Summit
3 5 (2.02%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.61%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.40%) Actimize
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.40%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.45%) AWS
2 35 (14.11%) GCP
3 31 (12.50%) Azure
4 14 (5.65%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.03%) Serverless
6 7 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.02%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.21%) Datadog
9 3 (1.21%) GitHub
10 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.81%) Collibra
10 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.81%) SaaS
10 2 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.42%) Multicast
2 4 (1.61%) VPN
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.65%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.63%) Metadata
3 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.42%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.02%) KDB
5 5 (2.02%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.02%) Power BI
6 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.61%) Tableau
7 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.40%) Power Query
8 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.84%) JIRA
2 6 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.02%) Git
4 4 (1.61%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.61%) ERwin
4 4 (1.61%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.21%) GitLab
5 3 (1.21%) Mocha
5 3 (1.21%) MSTest
5 3 (1.21%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.81%) JMeter
6 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Storybook
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 162 (65.32%) Finance
1 162 (65.32%) Front Office
2 101 (40.73%) Banking
3 66 (26.61%) Investment Banking
4 48 (19.35%) Social Skills
5 39 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.05%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.42%) Back Office
8 5 (2.02%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.81%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) French Language
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 126 (50.81%) Developer
2 61 (24.60%) Software Engineer
3 58 (23.39%) Java Developer
4 55 (22.18%) Senior
5 51 (20.56%) Lead
6 48 (19.35%) React Developer
7 46 (18.55%) Analyst
8 45 (18.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 43 (17.34%) Senior Developer
10 42 (16.94%) Business Analyst
11 38 (15.32%) Lead Developer
11 38 (15.32%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (13.31%) UI Developer
13 32 (12.90%) Lead Software Developer
13 32 (12.90%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (10.89%) Senior React Developer
14 27 (10.89%) Senior UI Developer
15 19 (7.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 16 (6.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
17 14 (5.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (37.10%) React
2 86 (34.68%) Redux
3 56 (22.58%) Node.js
4 39 (15.73%) Kafka
5 33 (13.31%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.26%) .NET
7 12 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.84%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.23%) Vue
9 7 (2.82%) HTML
9 7 (2.82%) OpenFin
9 7 (2.82%) XML
10 6 (2.42%) Middleware
10 6 (2.42%) Pandas
11 5 (2.02%) CSS
11 5 (2.02%) NumPy
11 5 (2.02%) RESTful
12 4 (1.61%) PySpark
12 4 (1.61%) REST
13 3 (1.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 86 (34.68%) Equities
2 77 (31.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (24.19%) Derivative
4 29 (11.69%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (6.45%) Market Risk
6 11 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.44%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.03%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.82%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.42%) Hedge funds
11 5 (2.02%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.02%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.21%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.87%) Linux
2 20 (8.06%) Unix
3 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.90%) Agile
2 74 (29.84%) Software Engineering
3 73 (29.44%) Electronic Trading
4 63 (25.40%) Investment Management
4 63 (25.40%) Low Latency
5 56 (22.58%) Portfolio Management
6 47 (18.95%) Order Management
7 43 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.73%) Asset Management
8 39 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (14.52%) CI/CD
10 30 (12.10%) Analytics
11 29 (11.69%) Mentoring
12 24 (9.68%) AI
12 24 (9.68%) Risk Management
12 24 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (9.68%) Validation
13 23 (9.27%) Fintech
14 22 (8.87%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.47%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 104 (41.94%) Python
2 102 (41.13%) Java
3 92 (37.10%) JavaScript
3 92 (37.10%) TypeScript
4 54 (21.77%) SQL
5 41 (16.53%) C#
6 32 (12.90%) Go
7 12 (4.84%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.42%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.61%) C++
10 3 (1.21%) Bash
10 3 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.68%) Degree
2 12 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.61%) PhD
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.40%) ACCA
5 1 (0.40%) CFA
5 1 (0.40%) CISA
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.82%) QA
3 4 (1.61%) MiFID
4 3 (1.21%) IFRS
5 2 (0.81%) GAAP
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.40%) EMIR
6 1 (0.40%) ITGC
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.02%) Docker
3 2 (0.81%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.02%) Ansible
3 4 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.61%) Terraform
4 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.26%) Murex
2 15 (6.05%) Charles River
3 12 (4.84%) Oracle
4 9 (3.63%) Solace
5 8 (3.23%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.42%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.42%) Tradeweb
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.02%) Sybase
8 4 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.21%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.40%) Advent
11 1 (0.40%) Calypso
11 1 (0.40%) Citrix
11 1 (0.40%) FactSet
11 1 (0.40%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.40%) Reuters
11 1 (0.40%) SunGard