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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 178 185
Rank change year-on-year -209 +7 +69
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 211 372 475
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.52% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 4.46% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 341 455
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £888 £938 £900
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 13,187 8,342 11,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.08% 34.10% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,328 5,459 7,315
10th Percentile £313 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.64%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 673 332 813
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.96 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -0.13% +51.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.90 £84.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year +33.50% +0.83% +40.09%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -118 210 £750 - 43
South West - 1 £725 - 3
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 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.84%) Summit
3 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.02%) AWS
2 32 (15.17%) GCP
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 11 (5.21%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.37%) GitHub
6 5 (2.37%) Serverless
7 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.90%) SaaS
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.95%) Collibra
9 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.27%) Metadata
5 6 (2.84%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.37%) KDB
6 5 (2.37%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.90%) Power BI
7 4 (1.90%) Tableau
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.95%) Flink
8 2 (0.95%) Power Query
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.32%) JIRA
2 6 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.37%) Git
4 4 (1.90%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.90%) ERwin
4 4 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Mocha
5 2 (0.95%) MSTest
5 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.95%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 134 (63.51%) Finance
2 118 (55.92%) Front Office
3 70 (33.18%) Banking
4 48 (22.75%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Investment Banking
6 32 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (9.48%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Back Office
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 109 (51.66%) Developer
2 53 (25.12%) Software Engineer
3 47 (22.27%) Lead
4 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 41 (19.43%) Analyst
5 41 (19.43%) Business Analyst
6 37 (17.54%) Lead Developer
7 34 (16.11%) Java Developer
8 33 (15.64%) Senior
9 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Developer
9 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (10.90%) Python Developer
10 23 (10.90%) React Developer
11 21 (9.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (9.95%) Senior Developer
12 16 (7.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 15 (7.11%) Python Engineer
13 15 (7.11%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (4.74%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.49%) React
2 55 (26.07%) Redux
3 50 (23.70%) Node.js
4 43 (20.38%) Kafka
5 33 (15.64%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.11%) .NET
7 12 (5.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.79%) Vue
8 8 (3.79%) XML
9 7 (3.32%) Pandas
9 7 (3.32%) REST
10 6 (2.84%) HTML
10 6 (2.84%) NumPy
11 5 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (2.37%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
13 3 (1.42%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 61 (28.91%) Equities
2 54 (25.59%) Derivative
3 44 (20.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.58%) Reference Data
5 12 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.74%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.32%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.37%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.00%) Linux
2 15 (7.11%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.02%) Agile
2 61 (28.91%) Software Engineering
3 56 (26.54%) Investment Management
4 53 (25.12%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (25.12%) Portfolio Management
5 41 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (16.11%) Order Management
7 31 (14.69%) Asset Management
8 30 (14.22%) Low Latency
9 29 (13.74%) CI/CD
10 27 (12.80%) Analytics
10 27 (12.80%) Mentoring
11 25 (11.85%) AI
12 23 (10.90%) Fintech
13 20 (9.48%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (8.53%) Machine Learning
15 18 (8.53%) Test Automation
16 17 (8.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (48.82%) Python
2 75 (35.55%) Java
3 61 (28.91%) JavaScript
4 59 (27.96%) TypeScript
5 52 (24.64%) SQL
6 32 (15.17%) Go
7 13 (6.16%) C#
8 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.42%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.95%) Degree
2 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.95%) PhD
4 1 (0.47%) ACCA
4 1 (0.47%) CFA
4 1 (0.47%) CISA
4 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.47%) PMP
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) MiFID
3 3 (1.42%) IFRS
4 2 (0.95%) EMIR
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Basel III
5 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
2 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Terraform
3 5 (2.37%) Ansible
4 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.95%) Argo
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) Kibana
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Murex
2 14 (6.64%) Oracle
3 10 (4.74%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.79%) Charles River
4 8 (3.79%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.90%) Solace
6 4 (1.90%) Sybase
7 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.95%) Citrix
8 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.95%) Reuters
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Splunk
8 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.95%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) FIS
9 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty