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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 189 259
Rank change year-on-year -172 +70 +22
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 207 335 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.35% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 4.03% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 303 314
10th Percentile £514 £588 £550
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 £875 £838
90th Percentile £909 £938 £975
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +1.69%
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 12,155 8,316 11,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.59% 33.59% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,717 5,311 7,674
10th Percentile £290 £288 £256
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £674 £662
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 285 805
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.83 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.06 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +33.42%

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 10 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 10 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 -102 204 £750 +3.45% 19
North of England -60 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £725 -
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 (2.90%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.90%) Confluence
2 3 (1.45%) Apache
2 3 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.90%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.42%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.97%) Summit
5 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.20%) AWS
2 29 (14.01%) GCP
3 27 (13.04%) Azure
4 14 (6.76%) Snowflake
5 11 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (2.90%) GitHub
6 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.90%) SaaS
7 3 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.45%) dbt
7 3 (1.45%) Serverless
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.97%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.97%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.48%) HTTP
1 1 (0.48%) Multicast
1 1 (0.48%) RTMP
1 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.31%) KDB
2 11 (5.31%) Kdb+
3 7 (3.38%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.90%) Flink
5 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.45%) Apache Arrow
6 3 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (1.45%) Dremio
7 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.97%) Metadata
7 2 (0.97%) Power BI
7 2 (0.97%) Power Query
7 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.31%) JIRA
2 6 (2.90%) Git
3 5 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.45%) QUnit
4 3 (1.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) Mocha
6 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.48%) MSTest
6 1 (0.48%) NUnit
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 142 (68.60%) Finance
2 123 (59.42%) Front Office
3 62 (29.95%) Banking
4 52 (25.12%) Social Skills
5 38 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (16.91%) Investment Banking
7 16 (7.73%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.90%) Back Office
8 6 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.42%) Legal
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 103 (49.76%) Developer
2 51 (24.64%) Software Engineer
3 44 (21.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 42 (20.29%) Lead
5 36 (17.39%) Business Analyst
5 36 (17.39%) Lead Developer
6 33 (15.94%) Analyst
7 32 (15.46%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (15.46%) Lead Software Engineer
8 26 (12.56%) Python Developer
9 24 (11.59%) Senior
10 22 (10.63%) Java Developer
11 21 (10.14%) React Developer
12 19 (9.18%) Python Engineer
13 14 (6.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 14 (6.76%) Senior Developer
14 13 (6.28%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
16 11 (5.31%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (26.09%) React
2 49 (23.67%) Kafka
2 49 (23.67%) Redux
3 48 (23.19%) Node.js
4 32 (15.46%) GraphQL
5 13 (6.28%) REST
6 11 (5.31%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (4.83%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.35%) .NET
8 9 (4.35%) Pandas
9 8 (3.86%) NumPy
9 8 (3.86%) Vue
10 7 (3.38%) HTML
10 7 (3.38%) XML
11 6 (2.90%) Dask
12 5 (2.42%) CSS
12 5 (2.42%) Reactive Extensions
13 4 (1.93%) HTML5
13 4 (1.93%) RESTful
14 3 (1.45%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 73 (35.27%) Equities
2 62 (29.95%) Derivative
3 47 (22.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (8.21%) Algorithms
5 15 (7.25%) Cloud Native
6 12 (5.80%) Reference Data
7 11 (5.31%) Data Structures
7 11 (5.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (4.35%) Hedge funds
10 7 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.93%) OTC Derivatives
13 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.45%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.04%) Linux
2 11 (5.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.61%) Agile
2 62 (29.95%) Investment Management
3 61 (29.47%) Software Engineering
4 54 (26.09%) Portfolio Management
5 46 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (20.77%) Electronic Trading
7 36 (17.39%) Order Management
8 35 (16.91%) Asset Management
9 29 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (13.53%) Fintech
11 26 (12.56%) CI/CD
12 25 (12.08%) Analytics
12 25 (12.08%) Risk Management
13 23 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.63%) DevOps
15 21 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (9.66%) Low Latency
17 18 (8.70%) Line Management
18 17 (8.21%) AI
18 17 (8.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 112 (54.11%) Python
2 61 (29.47%) Java
3 58 (28.02%) JavaScript
3 58 (28.02%) TypeScript
4 55 (26.57%) SQL
5 32 (15.46%) Go
6 7 (3.38%) C#
7 5 (2.42%) C++
7 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Tcl
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.59%) Degree
2 10 (4.83%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.90%) PhD
5 2 (0.97%) CISM
5 2 (0.97%) CISSP
5 2 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) ACCA
6 1 (0.48%) CFA
6 1 (0.48%) CISA
6 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) QA
2 10 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.45%) GDPR
3 3 (1.45%) IFRS
4 2 (0.97%) MiFID
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Basel III
5 1 (0.48%) EMIR
5 1 (0.48%) GAAP
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) ITGC
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.90%) Argo
2 6 (2.90%) Terraform
3 5 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.93%) Ansible
5 2 (0.97%) Kibana
5 2 (0.97%) logstash
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.70%) Murex
2 16 (7.73%) ION Trading
3 14 (6.76%) Bloomberg
4 12 (5.80%) Charles River
5 6 (2.90%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.90%) Oracle
6 5 (2.42%) Tradeweb
7 4 (1.93%) MarketAxess
8 3 (1.45%) Databricks
8 3 (1.45%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.45%) Solace
8 3 (1.45%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.97%) Citrix
9 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.97%) FIS
9 2 (0.97%) Reuters
9 2 (0.97%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.48%) Sybase