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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 198 255
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 +10
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 380 437 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 1.17% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.57% 3.81% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 417 444
10th Percentile £550 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £850
90th Percentile £938 £900 £950
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -2 378 £738 -1.67% 308
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 74 (19.47%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (14.74%) Apache
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (10.26%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.68%) thinkFolio
3 4 (1.05%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.26%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 135 (35.53%) AWS
2 99 (26.05%) GCP
3 72 (18.95%) dbt
4 47 (12.37%) Snowflake
5 30 (7.89%) Azure
6 17 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (4.47%) Dagster
7 5 (1.32%) Figma
8 3 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.79%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.53%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.53%) Prefect
10 1 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (31.58%) Data Lake
2 72 (18.95%) Amazon Athena
2 72 (18.95%) Apache Arrow
2 72 (18.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 72 (18.95%) Dremio
3 47 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (10.53%) Apache Ignite
5 9 (2.37%) KDB
6 7 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.05%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.26%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.26%) Power Query
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.37%) JIRA
2 6 (1.58%) Git
3 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.26%) Gradle
4 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 345 (90.79%) Finance
2 331 (87.11%) Front Office
3 110 (28.95%) Banking
4 69 (18.16%) Investment Banking
5 42 (11.05%) Social Skills
6 16 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.21%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.63%) Back Office
8 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (34.47%) Developer
2 128 (33.68%) Software Engineer
3 96 (25.26%) Analyst
4 95 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 87 (22.89%) Business Analyst
6 72 (18.95%) AWS Engineer
6 72 (18.95%) AWS Software Engineer
7 55 (14.47%) Business Manager
8 49 (12.89%) Python Engineer
9 47 (12.37%) Python Software Engineer
10 43 (11.32%) AWS Developer
11 38 (10.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 38 (10.00%) Java Engineer
11 38 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
12 37 (9.74%) Head of Finance
12 37 (9.74%) Senior
13 36 (9.47%) Python Developer
14 35 (9.21%) React Developer
15 26 (6.84%) Lead
15 26 (6.84%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (20.53%) React
2 62 (16.32%) Redux
3 58 (15.26%) NumPy
3 58 (15.26%) Pandas
4 57 (15.00%) Node.js
5 56 (14.74%) SciPy
6 46 (12.11%) AngularJS
7 43 (11.32%) Vue
8 40 (10.53%) gRPC
8 40 (10.53%) Protocol Buffers
9 33 (8.68%) PySpark
10 11 (2.89%) .NET
11 9 (2.37%) .NET Framework
12 8 (2.11%) XML
13 7 (1.84%) Reactive Extensions
14 6 (1.58%) Akka.NET
15 5 (1.32%) OpenFin
16 4 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
16 4 (1.05%) Middleware
17 3 (0.79%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (56.32%) Hedge funds
2 213 (56.05%) Derivative
3 207 (54.47%) Equities
4 206 (54.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (14.74%) Product Ownership
6 22 (5.79%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.16%) Pricing Data
8 7 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.05%) Grid Computing
11 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 3 (0.79%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.74%) Apple iOS
2 16 (4.21%) Linux
3 9 (2.37%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) CentOS
5 1 (0.26%) Debian
5 1 (0.26%) Fedora
5 1 (0.26%) Solaris
5 1 (0.26%) SUSE
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (78.42%) Agile
2 243 (63.95%) Investment Management
3 186 (48.95%) Asset Management
4 133 (35.00%) Software Engineering
5 111 (29.21%) Migration
5 111 (29.21%) Roadmaps
6 95 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 92 (24.21%) Data Governance
8 80 (21.05%) Data Management
9 78 (20.53%) Analytics
9 78 (20.53%) Fintech
10 57 (15.00%) Portfolio Management
11 49 (12.89%) Business Analysis
12 44 (11.58%) Performance Attribution
13 39 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (9.74%) Order Management
15 36 (9.47%) User Experience
16 31 (8.16%) TDD
16 31 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (7.37%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 183 (48.16%) Python
2 108 (28.42%) JavaScript
2 108 (28.42%) TypeScript
3 82 (21.58%) SQL
4 73 (19.21%) Java
5 15 (3.95%) C#
6 13 (3.42%) C++
7 6 (1.58%) F#
8 3 (0.79%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.53%) Perl
9 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.53%) Ruby
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (9.21%) Degree
2 4 (1.05%) CFA
3 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.53%) MBA
4 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.89%) MiFID
2 8 (2.11%) QA
3 3 (0.79%) EMIR
4 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (0.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) Basel III
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Grafana
3 1 (0.26%) Kibana
3 1 (0.26%) Rundeck
3 1 (0.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (9.74%) BISAM
2 19 (5.00%) Charles River
2 19 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 14 (3.68%) Calypso
3 14 (3.68%) SimCorp
4 9 (2.37%) Murex
5 7 (1.84%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.58%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.05%) Databricks
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle
7 4 (1.05%) Sybase
8 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.79%) IBM
8 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.79%) Splunk
8 3 (0.79%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.53%) CQG
9 2 (0.53%) Reuters
9 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) Patsystems