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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 194 279
Rank change year-on-year -144 +85 -39
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 207 374 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.29% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 4.00% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 331 287
10th Percentile £525 £588 £600
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £930 £932 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -
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 11,210 9,355 11,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.60% 32.39% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,064 5,674 8,056
10th Percentile £281 £279 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 277 458
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.59 £20.89
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

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 20 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 20 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 -89 205 £750 - 24
Yorkshire -48 2 - -
North of England -48 2 - -
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 35 (16.91%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (11.59%) Apache
3 6 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.76%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.90%) Fidessa
2 6 (2.90%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.93%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.97%) BondVision
5 1 (0.48%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.88%) AWS
2 35 (16.91%) dbt
3 29 (14.01%) Snowflake
4 22 (10.63%) Azure
5 12 (5.80%) GCP
6 10 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (2.90%) GitHub
8 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.42%) Serverless
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.97%) SaaS
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.48%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Firewall
1 2 (0.97%) Multicast
1 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.97%) tcpdump
1 2 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.91%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (16.91%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (16.91%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (16.91%) Dremio
2 25 (12.08%) Data Lake
3 24 (11.59%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (7.73%) KDB
5 15 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.28%) Kdb+
7 11 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.90%) Flink
9 5 (2.42%) Data Mart
9 5 (2.42%) Power BI
10 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.97%) Tableau
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.80%) JIRA
2 9 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.90%) Git
4 5 (2.42%) QUnit
5 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.97%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 152 (73.43%) Finance
2 118 (57.00%) Front Office
3 80 (38.65%) Banking
4 58 (28.02%) Investment Banking
5 57 (27.54%) Social Skills
6 28 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (10.14%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.86%) Back Office
9 4 (1.93%) Legal
9 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.45%) Law
11 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (37.20%) Developer
2 50 (24.15%) Software Engineer
3 43 (20.77%) Python Engineer
3 43 (20.77%) Senior
4 41 (19.81%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (16.91%) AWS Software Engineer
5 35 (16.91%) Python Software Engineer
6 32 (15.46%) Analyst
7 29 (14.01%) Business Analyst
8 28 (13.53%) Java Engineer
8 28 (13.53%) Java Software Engineer
8 28 (13.53%) Python Developer
9 24 (11.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 24 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 17 (8.21%) Senior Developer
12 15 (7.25%) Java Developer
13 13 (6.28%) Lead
14 11 (5.31%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.91%) NumPy
1 35 (16.91%) Pandas
1 35 (16.91%) SciPy
2 34 (16.43%) React
3 27 (13.04%) Kafka
4 24 (11.59%) gRPC
4 24 (11.59%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (11.11%) Node.js
6 19 (9.18%) REST
7 18 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (7.25%) .NET
9 13 (6.28%) Redux
10 12 (5.80%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.31%) AngularJS
11 11 (5.31%) Vue
12 8 (3.86%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.86%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.90%) Dask
13 6 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (41.06%) Equities
1 85 (41.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (31.88%) Derivative
3 34 (16.43%) Hedge funds
4 24 (11.59%) Pricing Data
5 19 (9.18%) Algorithms
6 18 (8.70%) Cloud Native
7 16 (7.73%) Product Ownership
8 13 (6.28%) Data Structures
9 12 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (5.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (4.35%) Reference Data
12 7 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.45%) Credit Risk
15 2 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.91%) Linux
2 12 (5.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.06%) Agile
2 64 (30.92%) Software Engineering
3 61 (29.47%) Investment Management
4 47 (22.71%) Asset Management
5 41 (19.81%) Electronic Trading
6 36 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (15.46%) DevOps
7 32 (15.46%) Risk Management
8 29 (14.01%) Order Management
9 27 (13.04%) Analytics
10 24 (11.59%) Low Latency
11 23 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 23 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (10.63%) Fintech
13 20 (9.66%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (7.73%) Multithreading
16 15 (7.25%) Portfolio Management
17 13 (6.28%) AI
17 13 (6.28%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 111 (53.62%) Python
2 56 (27.05%) Java
2 56 (27.05%) SQL
3 54 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 50 (24.15%) TypeScript
5 16 (7.73%) C#
6 12 (5.80%) Go
7 10 (4.83%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.93%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) Bash
9 2 (0.97%) Perl
9 2 (0.97%) Tcl
9 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.97%) VBA
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.08%) Degree
2 11 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (5.31%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.90%) PhD
4 2 (0.97%) CISM
4 2 (0.97%) CISSP
4 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.48%) PMP
5 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) QA
2 11 (5.31%) MiFID
3 7 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.42%) EMIR
5 2 (0.97%) Basel III
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (7.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.80%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.90%) Argo
3 6 (2.90%) Kibana
3 6 (2.90%) logstash
4 5 (2.42%) Ansible
5 4 (1.93%) Terraform
6 2 (0.97%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.97%) Grafana
6 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) ION Trading
2 16 (7.73%) Murex
3 14 (6.76%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.35%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.86%) Solace
6 7 (3.38%) Databricks
7 6 (2.90%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.90%) TIBCO
8 5 (2.42%) Charles River
8 5 (2.42%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.93%) Oracle
9 4 (1.93%) Portware
10 3 (1.45%) Reuters
11 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.97%) CQG
11 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.97%) Splunk
11 2 (0.97%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.48%) FIS