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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 201 274
Rank change year-on-year -155 +73 -36
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 188 360 298
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 1.27% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 3.92% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 319 280
10th Percentile £515 £588 £600
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £854
90th Percentile £970 £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 11,202 9,191 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.38% 32.48% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,085 5,541 7,760
10th Percentile £287 £277 £263
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -4.82% -3.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 266 474
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -14.78% +28.98%
75th Percentile £63.53 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £33.65 £42.19
% change year-on-year -18.77% -20.25% +27.85%

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 31 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 31 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 -96 186 £750 +5.26% 66
North of England -48 2 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 31 (16.49%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.70%) Apache
3 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.91%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.19%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.66%) ION MarketView
4 4 (2.13%) thinkFolio
5 2 (1.06%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (1.06%) BondVision
6 1 (0.53%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.79%) AWS
2 31 (16.49%) dbt
3 27 (14.36%) Snowflake
4 17 (9.04%) Azure
5 10 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.32%) GCP
6 6 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.19%) GitHub
6 6 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.66%) Serverless
8 4 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.06%) SaaS
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.53%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Multicast
1 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.06%) tcpdump
1 2 (1.06%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.49%) Amazon Athena
1 31 (16.49%) Apache Arrow
1 31 (16.49%) Apache Iceberg
1 31 (16.49%) Dremio
2 23 (12.23%) Data Lake
3 22 (11.70%) Apache Ignite
4 15 (7.98%) KDB
5 13 (6.91%) Kdb+
5 13 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.85%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.19%) Flink
8 5 (2.66%) Power BI
9 4 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.60%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.06%) Tableau
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (5.85%) JIRA
2 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.19%) Git
4 5 (2.66%) QUnit
5 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 135 (71.81%) Finance
2 108 (57.45%) Front Office
3 75 (39.89%) Banking
4 54 (28.72%) Social Skills
5 53 (28.19%) Investment Banking
6 28 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (10.11%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.26%) Back Office
9 5 (2.66%) Legal
10 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (36.17%) Developer
2 43 (22.87%) Senior
3 39 (20.74%) Software Engineer
4 38 (20.21%) Python Engineer
5 37 (19.68%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (16.49%) AWS Software Engineer
6 31 (16.49%) Python Software Engineer
7 30 (15.96%) Analyst
8 28 (14.89%) Business Analyst
8 28 (14.89%) Python Developer
9 24 (12.77%) Java Engineer
9 24 (12.77%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (11.17%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (11.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 21 (11.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (9.04%) Senior Developer
12 15 (7.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 13 (6.91%) Java Developer
14 12 (6.38%) Quantitative Developer
15 11 (5.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.49%) NumPy
1 31 (16.49%) Pandas
1 31 (16.49%) SciPy
2 24 (12.77%) React
3 22 (11.70%) gRPC
3 22 (11.70%) Kafka
3 22 (11.70%) Protocol Buffers
4 18 (9.57%) REST
5 17 (9.04%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (7.98%) Node.js
7 13 (6.91%) .NET
8 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.79%) Vue
9 7 (3.72%) .NET Core
9 7 (3.72%) .NET Framework
9 7 (3.72%) Redux
10 6 (3.19%) Dask
10 6 (3.19%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.19%) HTML
11 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 79 (42.02%) Equities
1 79 (42.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 63 (33.51%) Derivative
3 31 (16.49%) Hedge funds
4 22 (11.70%) Pricing Data
5 19 (10.11%) Algorithms
6 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
7 14 (7.45%) Product Ownership
8 13 (6.91%) Data Structures
9 11 (5.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (4.79%) Reference Data
12 7 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.60%) Credit Risk
15 2 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.02%) Linux
2 11 (5.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.23%) Agile
2 52 (27.66%) Software Engineering
3 50 (26.60%) Investment Management
4 39 (20.74%) Asset Management
4 39 (20.74%) Electronic Trading
5 38 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (15.96%) Risk Management
7 27 (14.36%) DevOps
8 26 (13.83%) Analytics
9 23 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (11.70%) CI/CD
10 22 (11.70%) Low Latency
11 21 (11.17%) Fintech
11 21 (11.17%) Order Management
12 18 (9.57%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.51%) Multithreading
14 15 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (7.45%) AI
15 14 (7.45%) Design Patterns
15 14 (7.45%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 98 (52.13%) Python
2 53 (28.19%) SQL
3 48 (25.53%) Java
4 44 (23.40%) JavaScript
5 40 (21.28%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.45%) C#
7 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.19%) Go
9 4 (2.13%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) Bash
10 2 (1.06%) Perl
10 2 (1.06%) Tcl
10 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.06%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.77%) Degree
2 11 (5.85%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.19%) PhD
5 2 (1.06%) CISM
5 2 (1.06%) CISSP
5 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) QA
2 11 (5.85%) MiFID
3 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.13%) EMIR
5 2 (1.06%) Basel III
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.79%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (3.19%) Argo
4 4 (2.13%) Ansible
4 4 (2.13%) Kibana
4 4 (2.13%) logstash
4 4 (2.13%) Terraform
5 2 (1.06%) Grafana
5 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (9.57%) ION Trading
2 14 (7.45%) Murex
3 13 (6.91%) Bloomberg
4 8 (4.26%) Tradeweb
5 7 (3.72%) Databricks
6 6 (3.19%) Charles River
6 6 (3.19%) MarketAxess
6 6 (3.19%) Solace
7 5 (2.66%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.66%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.13%) Portware
9 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.06%) CQG
9 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle
9 2 (1.06%) Reuters
9 2 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) Refinitiv