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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 198 280
Rank change year-on-year -180 +82 -41
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 169 347 298
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 1.30% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 3.98% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 311 279
10th Percentile £500 £588 £600
25th Percentile £613 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £849 £888 £844
90th Percentile £975 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 11,066 8,725 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.58% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,249 7,614
10th Percentile £283 £275 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £549
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.91% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 253 512
10th Percentile £14.86 £17.30 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.02 £64.65
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.12% -9.33% +50.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -123 167 £750 +7.14% 27
North of England -54 2 - -
Yorkshire - 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 24 (14.20%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (10.06%) Apache
3 7 (4.14%) Confluence
4 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.96%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.78%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (1.18%) BondVision
4 2 (1.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.59%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.59%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.59%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.59%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.04%) AWS
2 24 (14.20%) dbt
2 24 (14.20%) Snowflake
3 10 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (5.33%) Azure
5 8 (4.73%) GCP
6 6 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.55%) GitHub
6 6 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.37%) SaaS
8 3 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.78%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.18%) Serverless
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.59%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Firewall
1 1 (0.59%) Multicast
1 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.20%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (14.20%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (14.20%) Apache Iceberg
1 24 (14.20%) Dremio
2 18 (10.65%) Data Lake
3 17 (10.06%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (8.28%) KDB
5 13 (7.69%) Kdb+
6 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.55%) Flink
9 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.78%) Power BI
11 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.59%) Big Data
12 1 (0.59%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.10%) JIRA
2 6 (3.55%) Git
3 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.96%) QUnit
4 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 118 (69.82%) Finance
2 94 (55.62%) Front Office
3 64 (37.87%) Banking
4 47 (27.81%) Social Skills
5 42 (24.85%) Investment Banking
6 29 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (9.47%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.14%) Back Office
9 5 (2.96%) Legal
10 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (35.50%) Developer
2 38 (22.49%) Senior
3 31 (18.34%) Python Engineer
4 30 (17.75%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (17.16%) Analyst
6 27 (15.98%) Business Analyst
6 27 (15.98%) Python Developer
7 26 (15.38%) Software Engineer
8 24 (14.20%) AWS Software Engineer
8 24 (14.20%) Python Software Engineer
9 17 (10.06%) Java Engineer
9 17 (10.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (9.47%) Senior Developer
10 16 (9.47%) Senior Java Engineer
10 16 (9.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 16 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (7.10%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.10%) Quantitative Developer
11 12 (7.10%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (6.51%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.20%) NumPy
1 24 (14.20%) Pandas
1 24 (14.20%) SciPy
2 17 (10.06%) gRPC
2 17 (10.06%) Protocol Buffers
3 15 (8.88%) Kafka
3 15 (8.88%) React
4 14 (8.28%) REST
5 11 (6.51%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.73%) .NET
7 7 (4.14%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.14%) Node.js
7 7 (4.14%) Vue
8 6 (3.55%) Dask
8 6 (3.55%) HTML
9 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.37%) HTML5
9 4 (2.37%) XML
10 3 (1.78%) CSS
10 3 (1.78%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 71 (42.01%) Equities
2 65 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (31.95%) Derivative
4 24 (14.20%) Hedge funds
5 19 (11.24%) Algorithms
6 17 (10.06%) Pricing Data
7 13 (7.69%) Cloud Native
7 13 (7.69%) Data Structures
8 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
8 11 (6.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (4.73%) Reference Data
10 7 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.78%) Credit Risk
14 2 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.16%) Linux
2 11 (6.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.36%) Agile
2 38 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.89%) Electronic Trading
4 36 (21.30%) Investment Management
4 36 (21.30%) Software Engineering
5 34 (20.12%) Asset Management
6 28 (16.57%) Risk Management
7 26 (15.38%) Analytics
8 23 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (12.43%) CI/CD
10 19 (11.24%) DevOps
10 19 (11.24%) Fintech
11 18 (10.65%) Low Latency
12 17 (10.06%) AI
13 15 (8.88%) Computer Science
14 14 (8.28%) Mathematics
14 14 (8.28%) Multithreading
14 14 (8.28%) Quantitative Finance
14 14 (8.28%) SDLC
15 12 (7.10%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 84 (49.70%) Python
2 47 (27.81%) SQL
3 38 (22.49%) Java
4 31 (18.34%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.98%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.33%) C#
7 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.37%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
9 2 (1.18%) Tcl
9 2 (1.18%) VBA
10 1 (0.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (13.02%) Degree
2 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.55%) PhD
4 2 (1.18%) CISM
4 2 (1.18%) CISSP
4 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.59%) PMP
5 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (3.55%) MiFID
3 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.78%) EMIR
4 3 (1.78%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.59%) Basel III
6 1 (0.59%) GAAP
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (7.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.55%) Argo
2 6 (3.55%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (3.55%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Kibana
4 2 (1.18%) logstash
5 1 (0.59%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) ION Trading
2 13 (7.69%) Bloomberg
3 12 (7.10%) Murex
4 8 (4.73%) Tradeweb
5 6 (3.55%) Charles River
5 6 (3.55%) MarketAxess
6 5 (2.96%) Databricks
7 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle
8 3 (1.78%) Solace
9 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.18%) FIS
9 2 (1.18%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.18%) Splunk
9 2 (1.18%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.59%) Calypso
10 1 (0.59%) Portware
10 1 (0.59%) Sybase