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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 256 161
Rank change year-on-year -199 -95 +75
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 191 290 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 1.03% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 2.85% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 252 463
10th Percentile £538 £538 £563
25th Percentile £663 £650 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £875
90th Percentile - £875 £888
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 15,979 10,178 10,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.35% 36.32% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,607 6,378 6,094
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £645 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £771 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £531
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.98% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,157 523 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £15.62
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.19%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year +33.93% -43.72% +10.56%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -140 178 £725 -3.33% 415
North of England -69 7 £875 - 2
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South West - 4 £875 - 11
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -48 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 (2.62%) MTS
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.05%) Solana
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.90%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.62%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.05%) Actimize
4 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.52%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.52%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.52%) Summit
4 1 (0.52%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.04%) AWS
2 13 (6.81%) Azure
3 11 (5.76%) Snowflake
4 10 (5.24%) GCP
5 9 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (4.71%) Serverless
6 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.09%) Datadog
9 4 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.05%) GitHub
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.52%) Dagster
12 1 (0.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) Multicast
2 4 (2.09%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.66%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.66%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.62%) KDB
4 5 (2.62%) Kdb+
4 5 (2.62%) Metadata
5 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.09%) Power BI
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.33%) JIRA
2 10 (5.24%) Git
3 6 (3.14%) GitLab
4 5 (2.62%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.62%) ERwin
4 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.62%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (2.62%) Storybook
4 5 (2.62%) Vite
5 3 (1.57%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.57%) QUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.05%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.05%) Mocha
6 2 (1.05%) MSTest
6 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.05%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 126 (65.97%) Front Office
2 123 (64.40%) Finance
3 101 (52.88%) Banking
4 68 (35.60%) Investment Banking
5 44 (23.04%) Social Skills
6 30 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.28%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.24%) Back Office
9 5 (2.62%) Law
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Publishing
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) French Language
11 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (36.65%) Developer
2 62 (32.46%) Senior
3 40 (20.94%) Senior Developer
4 35 (18.32%) Java Developer
5 31 (16.23%) UI Developer
6 30 (15.71%) React Developer
6 30 (15.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 29 (15.18%) Analyst
7 29 (15.18%) Business Analyst
8 26 (13.61%) Senior React Developer
8 26 (13.61%) Senior UI Developer
9 14 (7.33%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Lead
11 9 (4.71%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (4.19%) Consultant
12 8 (4.19%) Quantitative Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.66%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.66%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.18%) React
2 44 (23.04%) Redux
3 14 (7.33%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (6.28%) .NET
5 11 (5.76%) OpenFin
6 9 (4.71%) PySpark
7 8 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.66%) Node.js
8 7 (3.66%) WebSockets
9 6 (3.14%) Kafka
9 6 (3.14%) Middleware
9 6 (3.14%) REST
9 6 (3.14%) Spring
10 5 (2.62%) CSS
10 5 (2.62%) Django
10 5 (2.62%) Flask
10 5 (2.62%) HTML
10 5 (2.62%) NumPy
10 5 (2.62%) Pandas
10 5 (2.62%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 79 (41.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 73 (38.22%) Equities
3 51 (26.70%) Derivative
4 30 (15.71%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.33%) Market Risk
6 13 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.76%) Reference Data
8 9 (4.71%) Cloud Native
9 8 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.19%) Hedge funds
10 7 (3.66%) Virtual Team
11 6 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (3.14%) Onboarding
12 5 (2.62%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.57%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.57%) OTC Derivatives
13 3 (1.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.71%) Linux
2 16 (8.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.37%) Electronic Trading
2 57 (29.84%) Low Latency
3 45 (23.56%) Agile
4 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 29 (15.18%) Analytics
8 28 (14.66%) Software Engineering
8 28 (14.66%) Validation
9 24 (12.57%) AI
9 24 (12.57%) Asset Management
10 23 (12.04%) Investment Management
11 22 (11.52%) Risk Management
12 20 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (9.95%) Business Analysis
13 19 (9.95%) Scrum
14 18 (9.42%) Requirements Gathering
14 18 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
15 17 (8.90%) Order Management
16 16 (8.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.46%) Java
2 53 (27.75%) Python
3 46 (24.08%) TypeScript
4 45 (23.56%) SQL
5 44 (23.04%) C#
6 41 (21.47%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.62%) C++
8 5 (2.62%) Tcl
9 4 (2.09%) Bash
9 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.57%) C
10 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.52%) R
11 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (7.85%) Degree
2 8 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.62%) PhD
4 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.05%) CFA
5 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.05%) PMP
6 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.14%) MiFID
3 4 (2.09%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) GAAP
4 2 (1.05%) IFRS
5 1 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.52%) EMIR
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.14%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 2 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.81%) Tradeweb
2 12 (6.28%) Bloomberg
3 11 (5.76%) Charles River
3 11 (5.76%) MarketAxess
4 10 (5.24%) Murex
5 8 (4.19%) Solace
6 7 (3.66%) Sybase
7 6 (3.14%) ION Trading
7 6 (3.14%) Oracle
8 4 (2.09%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.57%) Databricks
10 2 (1.05%) Calypso
10 2 (1.05%) FIS
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.05%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.52%) BEA
11 1 (0.52%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.52%) SGI
11 1 (0.52%) SunGard