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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 189 175
Rank change year-on-year -180 -14 +62
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 235 353 524
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.42% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 4.11% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 321 500
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £653 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £875
90th Percentile £938 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +11.30%

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 14,001 8,595 11,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.57% 34.64% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,730 5,529 7,353
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 769 388 855
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -7.13% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.05 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%

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 June 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 June 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 -104 223 £750 - 22
North of England -67 6 £875 - 2
South West - 5 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
North West - 2 £875 - 1
Midlands - 1 £875 -
West Midlands - 1 £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 (0.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.11%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.55%) Summit
3 5 (2.13%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.85%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.34%) AWS
2 35 (14.89%) GCP
3 32 (13.62%) Azure
4 12 (5.11%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.40%) Serverless
6 6 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.13%) SaaS
8 4 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.28%) Datadog
9 3 (1.28%) GitHub
10 2 (0.85%) Collibra
10 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.85%) HTTP
1 2 (0.85%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.43%) RTMP
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.83%) Metadata
5 6 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.13%) KDB
6 5 (2.13%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.13%) Power BI
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.70%) Tableau
8 2 (0.85%) Power Query
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (3.83%) JIRA
2 6 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.70%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.70%) ERwin
3 4 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.28%) Git
4 3 (1.28%) GitLab
4 3 (1.28%) Mocha
4 3 (1.28%) MSTest
4 3 (1.28%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.85%) JMeter
5 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) NUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 157 (66.81%) Finance
2 149 (63.40%) Front Office
3 94 (40.00%) Banking
4 63 (26.81%) Investment Banking
5 47 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 33 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.23%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.55%) Back Office
9 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.70%) Law
9 4 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (54.47%) Developer
2 58 (24.68%) Java Developer
3 56 (23.83%) Senior
3 56 (23.83%) Software Engineer
4 50 (21.28%) Lead
5 47 (20.00%) React Developer
6 46 (19.57%) Analyst
7 44 (18.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 42 (17.87%) Business Analyst
9 41 (17.45%) Senior Developer
10 38 (16.17%) Senior Java Developer
11 37 (15.74%) Lead Developer
12 32 (13.62%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (13.62%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (13.62%) UI Developer
13 27 (11.49%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (11.49%) Senior UI Developer
14 20 (8.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 16 (6.81%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (36.17%) React
2 81 (34.47%) Redux
3 52 (22.13%) Node.js
4 39 (16.60%) Kafka
5 33 (14.04%) GraphQL
6 19 (8.09%) .NET
7 13 (5.53%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.40%) Vue
8 8 (3.40%) XML
9 7 (2.98%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (2.98%) Pandas
10 6 (2.55%) HTML
10 6 (2.55%) NumPy
11 5 (2.13%) RESTful
12 4 (1.70%) CSS
12 4 (1.70%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.28%) HTML5
13 3 (1.28%) Java Concurrency
13 3 (1.28%) Reactive Extensions
13 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 84 (35.74%) Equities
2 72 (30.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (24.26%) Derivative
4 29 (12.34%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.53%) Reference Data
6 12 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.11%) Market Risk
7 9 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.98%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.13%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.70%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.70%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.28%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.28%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.96%) Linux
1 14 (5.96%) Unix
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (34.89%) Agile
2 71 (30.21%) Electronic Trading
3 67 (28.51%) Software Engineering
4 56 (23.83%) Investment Management
4 56 (23.83%) Low Latency
5 52 (22.13%) Portfolio Management
6 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (15.74%) Order Management
8 35 (14.89%) Asset Management
9 33 (14.04%) CI/CD
10 30 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.49%) Analytics
12 26 (11.06%) AI
13 24 (10.21%) Fintech
14 23 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (8.94%) Risk Management
16 20 (8.51%) Business Analysis
17 19 (8.09%) Machine Learning
17 19 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.98%) Java
2 97 (41.28%) Python
3 88 (37.45%) JavaScript
4 86 (36.60%) TypeScript
5 46 (19.57%) SQL
6 41 (17.45%) C#
7 32 (13.62%) Go
8 8 (3.40%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.28%) Bash
10 3 (1.28%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (10.64%) Degree
2 12 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.70%) PhD
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.43%) ACCA
5 1 (0.43%) CFA
5 1 (0.43%) CISA
5 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PMP
5 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.40%) QA
3 5 (2.13%) IFRS
4 4 (1.70%) MiFID
5 3 (1.28%) GAAP
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.43%) EMIR
7 1 (0.43%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.55%) Terraform
3 5 (2.13%) Ansible
4 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.66%) Murex
2 13 (5.53%) Oracle
3 10 (4.26%) Charles River
4 8 (3.40%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.55%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.13%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.13%) Solace
6 5 (2.13%) Sybase
7 3 (1.28%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.85%) Citrix
8 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.85%) Reuters
8 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.85%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.85%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.43%) Databricks
9 1 (0.43%) FactSet
9 1 (0.43%) FIS
9 1 (0.43%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.43%) TIBCO