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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 231 156
Rank change year-on-year -202 -75 +82
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 198 306 517
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 1.10% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 3.07% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 273 485
10th Percentile £500 £540 £555
25th Percentile £650 £663 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK median daily rate £738 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -1.67% -6.25% +14.29%

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 15,749 9,968 10,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 35.90% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,539 6,260 6,229
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 499 418
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.50 £14.89
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 September 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 September 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 -148 185 £725 -3.33% 467
North of England -74 7 £875 - 2
South West - 4 £875 - 6
North East - 4 £875 - 2
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -47 2 £875 +133.33% 2
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 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 5 (2.53%) MTS
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (8.59%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.53%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.52%) Summit
4 2 (1.01%) Actimize
5 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.51%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.61%) AWS
2 11 (5.56%) Snowflake
3 9 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (4.55%) Azure
3 9 (4.55%) GCP
3 9 (4.55%) Serverless
4 7 (3.54%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.02%) Datadog
8 3 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.01%) GitHub
10 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) Multicast
2 4 (2.02%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.54%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.54%) Metadata
2 7 (3.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.53%) KDB
4 5 (2.53%) Kdb+
4 5 (2.53%) Power BI
5 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) JIRA
2 10 (5.05%) Git
3 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.53%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.53%) ERwin
4 5 (2.53%) GitLab
4 5 (2.53%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.02%) Storybook
5 4 (2.02%) Vite
6 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.01%) JMeter
6 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.01%) Maven
6 2 (1.01%) Mocha
6 2 (1.01%) MSTest
6 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.01%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) QUnit
General
1 128 (64.65%) Front Office
2 117 (59.09%) Finance
3 101 (51.01%) Banking
4 68 (34.34%) Investment Banking
5 45 (22.73%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.04%) Back Office
9 5 (2.53%) Law
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Marketing
10 2 (1.01%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 76 (38.38%) Developer
2 64 (32.32%) Senior
3 45 (22.73%) Java Developer
3 45 (22.73%) Senior Developer
4 36 (18.18%) Analyst
4 36 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 32 (16.16%) Business Analyst
6 31 (15.66%) React Developer
6 31 (15.66%) UI Developer
7 27 (13.64%) Senior React Developer
7 27 (13.64%) Senior UI Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.57%) Lead
10 11 (5.56%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 10 (5.05%) Technical Business Analyst
12 9 (4.55%) C# Developer
13 8 (4.04%) Quantitative Developer
13 8 (4.04%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (3.54%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.75%) React
2 43 (21.72%) Redux
3 13 (6.57%) .NET
3 13 (6.57%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (5.05%) OpenFin
5 7 (3.54%) Node.js
6 6 (3.03%) Middleware
6 6 (3.03%) PySpark
6 6 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.03%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.53%) CSS
7 5 (2.53%) HTML
7 5 (2.53%) Kafka
7 5 (2.53%) REST
8 4 (2.02%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.02%) Django
8 4 (2.02%) Flask
8 4 (2.02%) NumPy
8 4 (2.02%) Pandas
8 4 (2.02%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 79 (39.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 69 (34.85%) Equities
3 53 (26.77%) Derivative
4 29 (14.65%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (6.57%) Market Risk
6 12 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.56%) Reference Data
8 8 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.04%) Hedge funds
8 8 (4.04%) Virtual Team
9 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
10 6 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.02%) Credit Risk
12 4 (2.02%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (1.52%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.65%) Linux
2 20 (10.10%) Unix
3 4 (2.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.35%) Electronic Trading
2 63 (31.82%) Low Latency
3 45 (22.73%) Agile
4 39 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (16.16%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.65%) Software Engineering
8 27 (13.64%) Analytics
8 27 (13.64%) Validation
9 25 (12.63%) Asset Management
10 24 (12.12%) AI
11 22 (11.11%) Investment Management
12 21 (10.61%) Risk Management
13 20 (10.10%) Business Analysis
14 19 (9.60%) Requirements Gathering
14 19 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (8.59%) Scrum
16 16 (8.08%) Test Automation
16 16 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
16 16 (8.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 71 (35.86%) Java
2 55 (27.78%) Python
3 48 (24.24%) SQL
4 47 (23.74%) TypeScript
5 46 (23.23%) C#
6 43 (21.72%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.03%) C++
9 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.53%) Tcl
10 4 (2.02%) Bash
11 3 (1.52%) C
11 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (8.59%) Degree
2 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.53%) PhD
4 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.01%) CFA
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.03%) MiFID
2 6 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (1.01%) GAAP
3 2 (1.01%) IFRS
4 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.51%) EMIR
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.03%) Docker
1 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.01%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 14 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.52%) Ansible
3 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.01%) Argo
4 2 (1.01%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.57%) Tradeweb
2 12 (6.06%) Bloomberg
3 11 (5.56%) MarketAxess
4 10 (5.05%) Charles River
4 10 (5.05%) Oracle
4 10 (5.05%) Solace
5 9 (4.55%) Murex
5 9 (4.55%) Sybase
6 6 (3.03%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.52%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.52%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.01%) Calypso
8 2 (1.01%) FIS
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) eFront
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv