Fixed Income Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 163 239
Rank change year-on-year -37 +76 +2
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 369 559 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.50% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.07% 4.88% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 532 457
10th Percentile £550 £563 £516
25th Percentile £638 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £838
90th Percentile - - £938
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in England

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 3 July 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 -26 365 £750 -6.25% 626
North of England +6 2 - - 18
Yorkshire +5 2 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 - 4
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (23.31%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (14.63%) Apache
3 7 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 45 (12.20%) Aladdin
2 20 (5.42%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.36%) ION Anvil
4 3 (0.81%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.81%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.27%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 168 (45.53%) AWS
2 104 (28.18%) GCP
3 85 (23.04%) dbt
4 53 (14.36%) Snowflake
5 45 (12.20%) Azure
6 8 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.36%) Dagster
7 5 (1.36%) Figma
8 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.27%) Prefect
9 1 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.04%) Amazon Athena
1 85 (23.04%) Apache Arrow
1 85 (23.04%) Apache Iceberg
1 85 (23.04%) Dremio
2 71 (19.24%) Data Lake
3 65 (17.62%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (10.30%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (2.71%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.17%) KDB
7 7 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.63%) Power BI
9 5 (1.36%) Data Mart
9 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.81%) Power Query
12 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.52%) JIRA
2 5 (1.36%) Git
2 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.27%) Gradle
5 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.27%) JUnit
5 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 326 (88.35%) Finance
2 308 (83.47%) Front Office
3 141 (38.21%) Banking
4 84 (22.76%) Investment Banking
5 45 (12.20%) Social Skills
6 24 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (5.69%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.98%) Back Office
9 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Law
10 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Legal
11 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (45.80%) Developer
2 161 (43.63%) Software Engineer
3 124 (33.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 85 (23.04%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (23.04%) AWS Software Engineer
5 81 (21.95%) Analyst
6 75 (20.33%) Business Analyst
7 61 (16.53%) Python Engineer
8 60 (16.26%) Java Engineer
8 60 (16.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (16.26%) Python Software Engineer
9 50 (13.55%) AWS Developer
9 50 (13.55%) Senior
10 48 (13.01%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 44 (11.92%) Business Manager
11 44 (11.92%) Python Developer
12 43 (11.65%) React Developer
13 35 (9.49%) Java Developer
14 34 (9.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (8.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (29.81%) React
2 80 (21.68%) Node.js
3 76 (20.60%) Redux
4 74 (20.05%) NumPy
5 73 (19.78%) Pandas
6 70 (18.97%) SciPy
7 59 (15.99%) AngularJS
8 56 (15.18%) Vue
9 38 (10.30%) gRPC
9 38 (10.30%) Protocol Buffers
10 21 (5.69%) PySpark
11 15 (4.07%) .NET
12 14 (3.79%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (3.79%) Kafka
13 12 (3.25%) GraphQL
14 11 (2.98%) .NET Framework
15 8 (2.17%) Middleware
15 8 (2.17%) XML
16 7 (1.90%) Reactive Extensions
17 6 (1.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 177 (47.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 171 (46.34%) Equities
3 161 (43.63%) Derivative
4 159 (43.09%) Hedge funds
5 30 (8.13%) Pricing Data
6 27 (7.32%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.34%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.71%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.08%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (1.08%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.08%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.08%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.61%) Linux
2 9 (2.44%) Unix
3 6 (1.63%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (76.69%) Agile
2 223 (60.43%) Investment Management
3 198 (53.66%) Asset Management
4 171 (46.34%) Software Engineering
5 93 (25.20%) Fintech
6 60 (16.26%) Analytics
7 59 (15.99%) Business Analysis
8 57 (15.45%) Portfolio Management
9 53 (14.36%) Performance Attribution
10 50 (13.55%) Data Management
11 47 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (12.20%) Migration
12 45 (12.20%) Order Management
13 44 (11.92%) Risk Management
14 42 (11.38%) TDD
15 41 (11.11%) Roadmaps
16 39 (10.57%) Data Governance
16 39 (10.57%) Regulatory Compliance
16 39 (10.57%) User Experience
17 37 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 223 (60.43%) Python
2 143 (38.75%) JavaScript
2 143 (38.75%) TypeScript
3 98 (26.56%) Java
3 98 (26.56%) SQL
4 23 (6.23%) C#
5 13 (3.52%) C++
6 12 (3.25%) Go
7 7 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.63%) F#
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Bash
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (6.50%) Degree
2 9 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.54%) CFA
3 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.54%) PMP
4 1 (0.27%) CBAP
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.88%) MiFID
2 10 (2.71%) QA
3 4 (1.08%) EMIR
4 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.54%) Basel III
5 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.27%) FINRA
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (2.71%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.08%) Kibana
4 3 (0.81%) logstash
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
5 2 (0.54%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (10.84%) BISAM
2 22 (5.96%) Charles River
3 21 (5.69%) Calypso
3 21 (5.69%) ION Trading
4 19 (5.15%) SimCorp
5 13 (3.52%) Murex
6 10 (2.71%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.17%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.17%) Oracle
8 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.36%) Reuters
8 5 (1.36%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.08%) Sybase
9 4 (1.08%) Tradeweb
10 3 (0.81%) Databricks
10 3 (0.81%) IBM
10 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.81%) Solace
10 3 (0.81%) Splunk
11 2 (0.54%) Red Hat