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 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 193 281
Rank change year-on-year -128 +88 -52
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 235 410 324
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 1.34% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 4.19% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 365 301
10th Percentile £525 £588 £563
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -
75th Percentile £850 £888 £850
90th Percentile £875 - £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £714
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.08% -1.55%
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 11,271 9,783 12,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.18% 32.00% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,084 5,868 8,236
10th Percentile £286 £294 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 311 454
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.36 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.36 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.75 £42.92
% change year-on-year -23.74% -19.03% +22.61%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -78 232 £750 -6.25% 25
Yorkshire -30 2 - -
North of England -43 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -
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 45 (19.15%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (12.77%) Apache
3 7 (2.98%) Confluence
4 5 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.81%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.98%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.98%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.70%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.85%) BondVision
5 1 (0.43%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.89%) AWS
2 45 (19.15%) dbt
3 35 (14.89%) Snowflake
4 28 (11.91%) Azure
5 23 (9.79%) GCP
6 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.98%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.55%) GitHub
9 6 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.13%) Serverless
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.85%) SaaS
13 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.43%) Lucidchart
13 1 (0.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) Multicast
3 2 (0.85%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (19.15%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (19.15%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (19.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (19.15%) Dremio
2 31 (13.19%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.77%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.23%) KDB
6 13 (5.53%) Kdb+
7 12 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.98%) Power BI
9 6 (2.55%) Data Mart
9 6 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.55%) Flink
10 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.28%) Power Query
13 2 (0.85%) Big Data
13 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.53%) JIRA
2 9 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.55%) Git
4 5 (2.13%) QUnit
5 4 (1.70%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.85%) GitLab
6 2 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 182 (77.45%) Finance
2 143 (60.85%) Front Office
3 95 (40.43%) Banking
4 65 (27.66%) Investment Banking
5 57 (24.26%) Social Skills
6 29 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (9.36%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.83%) Back Office
9 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.70%) Legal
10 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (39.15%) Developer
2 67 (28.51%) Software Engineer
3 52 (22.13%) Senior
4 51 (21.70%) AWS Engineer
4 51 (21.70%) Python Engineer
5 45 (19.15%) AWS Software Engineer
6 43 (18.30%) Python Software Engineer
7 37 (15.74%) Analyst
8 36 (15.32%) Java Engineer
8 36 (15.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 35 (14.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 31 (13.19%) Python Developer
11 30 (12.77%) Business Analyst
11 30 (12.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 29 (12.34%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (12.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 20 (8.51%) Senior Developer
14 18 (7.66%) Java Developer
15 15 (6.38%) AWS Developer
16 13 (5.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.00%) NumPy
2 46 (19.57%) Pandas
2 46 (19.57%) React
2 46 (19.57%) SciPy
3 32 (13.62%) Node.js
4 30 (12.77%) gRPC
4 30 (12.77%) Protocol Buffers
5 27 (11.49%) Kafka
6 20 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (8.51%) Redux
7 19 (8.09%) REST
8 17 (7.23%) .NET
8 17 (7.23%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.23%) Vue
9 12 (5.11%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.26%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.98%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.13%) Dapper ORM
13 5 (2.13%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 107 (45.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 97 (41.28%) Equities
3 80 (34.04%) Derivative
4 42 (17.87%) Hedge funds
5 30 (12.77%) Pricing Data
6 21 (8.94%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.09%) Product Ownership
8 17 (7.23%) Cloud Native
9 15 (6.38%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (3.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (3.40%) Reference Data
13 6 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.70%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
15 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.28%) Market Risk
16 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.47%) Linux
2 13 (5.53%) Unix
3 4 (1.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (48.09%) Agile
2 84 (35.74%) Software Engineering
3 80 (34.04%) Investment Management
4 65 (27.66%) Asset Management
5 44 (18.72%) Electronic Trading
6 36 (15.32%) Risk Management
7 35 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.47%) DevOps
8 34 (14.47%) Fintech
9 33 (14.04%) Order Management
10 31 (13.19%) Analytics
11 28 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (11.06%) Low Latency
13 25 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 22 (9.36%) Computer Science
15 18 (7.66%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (6.81%) Multithreading
16 16 (6.81%) Scrum
17 15 (6.38%) Performance Attribution
17 15 (6.38%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 130 (55.32%) Python
2 71 (30.21%) JavaScript
3 67 (28.51%) Java
3 67 (28.51%) TypeScript
4 59 (25.11%) SQL
5 21 (8.94%) C#
6 12 (5.11%) Go
7 10 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.55%) C++
9 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) Tcl
10 2 (0.85%) VBA
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (10.64%) Degree
2 12 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.13%) PhD
5 2 (0.85%) CISM
5 2 (0.85%) CISSP
5 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
6 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) QA
2 11 (4.68%) MiFID
3 9 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.13%) EMIR
5 2 (0.85%) Basel III
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) NIST
5 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (7.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.53%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.55%) Ansible
3 6 (2.55%) Argo
3 6 (2.55%) Kibana
3 6 (2.55%) logstash
4 3 (1.28%) BladeLogic
4 3 (1.28%) Terraform
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (8.51%) Murex
2 19 (8.09%) ION Trading
3 17 (7.23%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.26%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.40%) Solace
6 7 (2.98%) Databricks
6 7 (2.98%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.55%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.55%) Oracle
7 6 (2.55%) Reuters
8 5 (2.13%) Charles River
8 5 (2.13%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.70%) Portware
10 3 (1.28%) CQG
10 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.28%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.85%) Calypso
11 2 (0.85%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.85%) Splunk