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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 202 165
Rank change year-on-year -175 -37 +82
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 236 346 520
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.41% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 4.09% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 316 497
10th Percentile £523 £544 £550
25th Percentile £659 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £788
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +8.62%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £875
90th Percentile £938 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £781
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +7.76%

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 13,865 8,458 11,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 34.50% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 5,459 7,367
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 742 371 849
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -5.92% +60.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.95 £84.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.90% -5.57% +57.30%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -105 224 £750 - 16
North of England -67 6 £875 - 2
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 - 1
North West - 2 £875 - 1
Midlands - 1 £875 -
West Midlands - 1 £875 -
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 2 (0.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.08%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.54%) Summit
3 5 (2.12%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.85%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.20%) AWS
2 35 (14.83%) GCP
3 32 (13.56%) Azure
4 12 (5.08%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.39%) Serverless
6 6 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.12%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.12%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.12%) SaaS
8 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.27%) Datadog
9 3 (1.27%) GitHub
10 2 (0.85%) Collibra
10 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.85%) HTTP
1 2 (0.85%) Multicast
2 1 (0.42%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.42%) RTMP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.24%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.81%) Metadata
5 6 (2.54%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.12%) KDB
6 5 (2.12%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.12%) Power BI
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.69%) Tableau
8 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.85%) Power Query
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.42%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (3.81%) JIRA
2 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.69%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.69%) ERwin
3 4 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (1.27%) GitLab
4 3 (1.27%) Mocha
4 3 (1.27%) MSTest
4 3 (1.27%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.85%) JMeter
5 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.42%) NUnit
6 1 (0.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 156 (66.10%) Finance
2 149 (63.14%) Front Office
3 96 (40.68%) Banking
4 65 (27.54%) Investment Banking
5 48 (20.34%) Social Skills
6 33 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.20%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.54%) Back Office
9 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Marketing
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (54.24%) Developer
2 58 (24.58%) Java Developer
3 56 (23.73%) Software Engineer
4 55 (23.31%) Senior
5 50 (21.19%) Lead
6 47 (19.92%) React Developer
7 46 (19.49%) Analyst
8 44 (18.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 43 (18.22%) Business Analyst
10 40 (16.95%) Senior Developer
11 38 (16.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 37 (15.68%) Lead Developer
13 32 (13.56%) Lead Software Developer
13 32 (13.56%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (13.56%) UI Developer
14 27 (11.44%) Senior React Developer
14 27 (11.44%) Senior UI Developer
15 21 (8.90%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 16 (6.78%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
17 15 (6.36%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (36.02%) React
2 81 (34.32%) Redux
3 52 (22.03%) Node.js
4 39 (16.53%) Kafka
5 33 (13.98%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.63%) .NET
7 13 (5.51%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.39%) Vue
8 8 (3.39%) XML
9 7 (2.97%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (2.97%) HTML
9 7 (2.97%) Pandas
10 6 (2.54%) NumPy
11 5 (2.12%) RESTful
12 4 (1.69%) CSS
12 4 (1.69%) HTML5
12 4 (1.69%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.69%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.27%) Java Concurrency
13 3 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (36.02%) Equities
2 72 (30.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (24.15%) Derivative
4 29 (12.29%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (5.93%) Reference Data
6 13 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.66%) Market Risk
8 9 (3.81%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.97%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.12%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.36%) Linux
2 14 (5.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.32%) Agile
2 72 (30.51%) Electronic Trading
3 66 (27.97%) Software Engineering
4 56 (23.73%) Investment Management
5 55 (23.31%) Low Latency
6 52 (22.03%) Portfolio Management
7 40 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (15.68%) Order Management
9 35 (14.83%) Asset Management
10 33 (13.98%) CI/CD
11 30 (12.71%) Mentoring
12 26 (11.02%) AI
12 26 (11.02%) Analytics
13 23 (9.75%) Fintech
13 23 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.47%) Machine Learning
14 20 (8.47%) Test Automation
15 19 (8.05%) Business Analysis
15 19 (8.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.80%) Java
2 98 (41.53%) Python
3 88 (37.29%) JavaScript
4 86 (36.44%) TypeScript
5 49 (20.76%) SQL
6 39 (16.53%) C#
7 32 (13.56%) Go
8 8 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.12%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.27%) Bash
10 3 (1.27%) C++
10 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (10.17%) Degree
2 11 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.27%) PhD
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.42%) ACCA
5 1 (0.42%) CFA
5 1 (0.42%) CISA
5 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
5 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.81%) QA
3 5 (2.12%) IFRS
3 5 (2.12%) MiFID
4 3 (1.27%) GAAP
5 2 (0.85%) EMIR
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.42%) ITGC
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.54%) Terraform
3 5 (2.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.63%) Murex
2 14 (5.93%) Oracle
3 10 (4.24%) Charles River
4 8 (3.39%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.54%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.54%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.12%) Solace
6 5 (2.12%) Sybase
7 3 (1.27%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.85%) Citrix
8 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.85%) Reuters
8 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.85%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.85%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.42%) Databricks
9 1 (0.42%) FactSet
9 1 (0.42%) FIS
9 1 (0.42%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.42%) TIBCO