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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 191 280
Rank change year-on-year -129 +89 -58
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 230 406 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.33% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 4.17% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 362 310
10th Percentile £525 £588 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £714
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.08% -1.55%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £848
90th Percentile £875 - £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £712
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.36% -1.79%
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 11,059 9,741 12,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.31% 31.84% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,956 5,832 8,436
10th Percentile £283 £295 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.79% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 312 461
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.24 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -24.29% -19.38% +24.04%

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 1 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 1 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 -71 227 £750 -6.25% 25
Yorkshire -37 2 - -
North of England -42 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 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (13.04%) Apache
3 7 (3.04%) Confluence
4 5 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.96%) Aladdin
2 7 (3.04%) Fidessa
2 7 (3.04%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.74%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.87%) BondVision
5 1 (0.43%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.65%) AWS
2 45 (19.57%) dbt
3 35 (15.22%) Snowflake
4 28 (12.17%) Azure
5 23 (10.00%) GCP
6 11 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.61%) GitHub
9 6 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.17%) Serverless
11 4 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.87%) 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 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) Multicast
3 2 (0.87%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (19.57%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (19.57%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (19.57%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (19.57%) Dremio
2 31 (13.48%) Data Lake
3 30 (13.04%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.96%) KDB
6 12 (5.22%) Kdb+
6 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.04%) Power BI
8 6 (2.61%) Data Mart
8 6 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.61%) Flink
9 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.30%) Power Query
12 2 (0.87%) Big Data
12 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.65%) JIRA
2 9 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.61%) Git
4 5 (2.17%) QUnit
5 4 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.87%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) 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
1 180 (78.26%) Finance
2 141 (61.30%) Front Office
3 94 (40.87%) Banking
4 65 (28.26%) Investment Banking
5 55 (23.91%) Social Skills
6 28 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (9.57%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.91%) Back Office
9 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Legal
10 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (38.70%) Developer
2 67 (29.13%) Software Engineer
3 51 (22.17%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (22.17%) Python Engineer
3 51 (22.17%) Senior
4 45 (19.57%) AWS Software Engineer
5 43 (18.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 36 (15.65%) Analyst
6 36 (15.65%) Java Engineer
6 36 (15.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 35 (15.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 30 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (12.61%) Python Developer
9 29 (12.61%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (12.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 28 (12.17%) Business Analyst
11 19 (8.26%) Senior Developer
12 17 (7.39%) Java Developer
13 15 (6.52%) AWS Developer
14 13 (5.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.43%) NumPy
2 46 (20.00%) Pandas
2 46 (20.00%) React
2 46 (20.00%) SciPy
3 32 (13.91%) Node.js
4 30 (13.04%) gRPC
4 30 (13.04%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (11.30%) Kafka
6 20 (8.70%) Redux
7 19 (8.26%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (7.83%) REST
9 17 (7.39%) .NET
9 17 (7.39%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.39%) Vue
10 12 (5.22%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.35%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.04%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (2.17%) Dapper ORM
14 5 (2.17%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 106 (46.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 94 (40.87%) Equities
3 79 (34.35%) Derivative
4 42 (18.26%) Hedge funds
5 30 (13.04%) Pricing Data
6 20 (8.70%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.26%) Product Ownership
8 17 (7.39%) Cloud Native
9 14 (6.09%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (3.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (3.04%) Reference Data
13 6 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.74%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.74%) Onboarding
15 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.30%) Market Risk
16 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
16 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.35%) Linux
2 13 (5.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (49.13%) Agile
2 84 (36.52%) Software Engineering
3 80 (34.78%) Investment Management
4 65 (28.26%) Asset Management
5 42 (18.26%) Electronic Trading
6 36 (15.65%) Risk Management
7 34 (14.78%) DevOps
7 34 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.35%) Fintech
8 33 (14.35%) Order Management
9 30 (13.04%) Analytics
10 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (10.87%) CI/CD
11 25 (10.87%) Low Latency
12 22 (9.57%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (6.96%) Scrum
15 15 (6.52%) Multithreading
15 15 (6.52%) Performance Attribution
15 15 (6.52%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 128 (55.65%) Python
2 71 (30.87%) JavaScript
3 67 (29.13%) TypeScript
4 66 (28.70%) Java
5 57 (24.78%) SQL
6 21 (9.13%) C#
7 12 (5.22%) Go
8 10 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.61%) C++
10 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.87%) Perl
11 2 (0.87%) Tcl
11 2 (0.87%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (10.87%) Degree
2 12 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.17%) PhD
5 2 (0.87%) CISM
5 2 (0.87%) CISSP
5 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.87%) 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 11 (4.78%) MiFID
1 11 (4.78%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.17%) EMIR
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) Basel III
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (6.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.65%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.61%) Ansible
3 6 (2.61%) Argo
3 6 (2.61%) Kibana
3 6 (2.61%) logstash
4 3 (1.30%) BladeLogic
4 3 (1.30%) Terraform
5 2 (0.87%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (8.70%) Murex
2 18 (7.83%) ION Trading
3 17 (7.39%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.35%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.48%) Solace
6 7 (3.04%) Databricks
6 7 (3.04%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.61%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.61%) Oracle
7 6 (2.61%) Reuters
8 5 (2.17%) Charles River
8 5 (2.17%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.74%) Portware
10 3 (1.30%) CQG
10 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.30%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.87%) Calypso
11 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.87%) Splunk