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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 196 266
Rank change year-on-year -115 +70 -42
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 246 401 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.29% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 4.09% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 358 322
10th Percentile £525 £588 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £712
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.32% -1.76%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £875 £888 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 11,109 9,807 12,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.45% 31.58% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,946 5,874 8,577
10th Percentile £285 £298 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 302 456
10th Percentile £14.18 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.45 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.14 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.91% +2.62% +47.54%
75th Percentile £56.77 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.33 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.14% -16.85% +48.33%

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 November 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 November 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 -74 242 £750 -6.25% 70
Yorkshire -36 3 - -
North of England -49 3 - -
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 53 (21.54%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (13.82%) Apache
3 9 (3.66%) Confluence
4 5 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.85%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.85%) ION MarketView
3 5 (2.03%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.81%) BondVision
4 2 (0.81%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 93 (37.80%) AWS
2 53 (21.54%) dbt
3 39 (15.85%) Snowflake
4 33 (13.41%) GCP
5 30 (12.20%) Azure
6 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.25%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.03%) Serverless
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.63%) GitHub
10 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.81%) SaaS
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.41%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) Multicast
3 2 (0.81%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.41%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.54%) Amazon Athena
1 53 (21.54%) Apache Arrow
1 53 (21.54%) Apache Iceberg
1 53 (21.54%) Dremio
2 35 (14.23%) Data Lake
3 34 (13.82%) Apache Ignite
4 30 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.91%) KDB
6 12 (4.88%) Kdb+
6 12 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.25%) Power BI
8 7 (2.85%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.44%) Data Mart
9 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.63%) Flink
12 3 (1.22%) Power Query
13 2 (0.81%) Big Data
13 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.10%) JIRA
2 8 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.03%) Git
3 5 (2.03%) QUnit
4 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.81%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 195 (79.27%) Finance
2 158 (64.23%) Front Office
3 101 (41.06%) Banking
4 70 (28.46%) Investment Banking
5 57 (23.17%) Social Skills
6 31 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (9.76%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.66%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.63%) Legal
10 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (41.06%) Developer
2 82 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 57 (23.17%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (22.36%) Python Engineer
4 55 (22.36%) Senior
5 53 (21.54%) AWS Software Engineer
6 49 (19.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 45 (18.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 42 (17.07%) Java Engineer
8 42 (17.07%) Java Software Engineer
9 40 (16.26%) Analyst
10 34 (13.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (13.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 33 (13.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 32 (13.01%) Python Developer
13 30 (12.20%) Business Analyst
14 20 (8.13%) Java Developer
15 19 (7.72%) AWS Developer
16 18 (7.32%) Senior Developer
17 16 (6.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.76%) NumPy
1 56 (22.76%) React
2 55 (22.36%) Pandas
3 54 (21.95%) SciPy
4 40 (16.26%) Node.js
5 34 (13.82%) gRPC
5 34 (13.82%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (10.57%) Redux
7 24 (9.76%) FIX Protocol
8 23 (9.35%) AngularJS
8 23 (9.35%) Vue
9 22 (8.94%) Kafka
10 17 (6.91%) .NET
10 17 (6.91%) REST
11 12 (4.88%) GraphQL
12 10 (4.07%) .NET Framework
13 7 (2.85%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.85%) Middleware
14 6 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (2.03%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 123 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 104 (42.28%) Equities
3 86 (34.96%) Derivative
4 49 (19.92%) Hedge funds
5 34 (13.82%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.94%) Algorithms
7 19 (7.72%) Product Ownership
8 17 (6.91%) Cloud Native
9 16 (6.50%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.85%) Reference Data
11 7 (2.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (2.03%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.63%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (1.22%) Market Risk
15 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.82%) Linux
2 13 (5.28%) Unix
3 6 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (53.25%) Agile
2 100 (40.65%) Software Engineering
3 93 (37.80%) Investment Management
4 79 (32.11%) Asset Management
5 42 (17.07%) Fintech
6 41 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
7 39 (15.85%) Risk Management
8 38 (15.45%) Order Management
9 37 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (12.20%) Analytics
10 30 (12.20%) DevOps
11 27 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.16%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.16%) Low Latency
13 22 (8.94%) CI/CD
14 20 (8.13%) Scrum
15 19 (7.72%) Performance Attribution
16 18 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (6.50%) Design Patterns
17 16 (6.50%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 141 (57.32%) Python
2 85 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 81 (32.93%) TypeScript
4 76 (30.89%) Java
5 60 (24.39%) SQL
6 25 (10.16%) C#
7 12 (4.88%) Go
7 12 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.66%) C++
9 3 (1.22%) Bash
9 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.81%) Tcl
10 2 (0.81%) VBA
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (10.16%) Degree
2 13 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.07%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.03%) PhD
5 2 (0.81%) CISM
5 2 (0.81%) CISSP
5 2 (0.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.41%) PMP
6 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) MiFID
1 11 (4.47%) QA
2 8 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.03%) EMIR
4 2 (0.81%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) NIST
4 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.41%) Basel III
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (5.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.28%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.44%) Kibana
3 6 (2.44%) logstash
4 5 (2.03%) Ansible
5 4 (1.63%) Argo
6 3 (1.22%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.81%) Grafana
7 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.81%) Terraform
8 1 (0.41%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (8.13%) Murex
2 18 (7.32%) ION Trading
3 16 (6.50%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.07%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.25%) Solace
6 7 (2.85%) Databricks
6 7 (2.85%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.44%) Charles River
7 6 (2.44%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle
7 6 (2.44%) Reuters
8 5 (2.03%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.63%) Portware
10 3 (1.22%) Calypso
10 3 (1.22%) CQG
10 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.22%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow