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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 234 149
Rank change year-on-year -198 -85 +83
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 195 320 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 1.17% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 3.26% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 288 524
10th Percentile £500 £538 £550
25th Percentile £641 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £753 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -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 15,362 9,824 10,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 35.87% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,373 6,216 6,421
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 487 486
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.49 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £20.81
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -37.46% +11.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.33 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +4.65%

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 2 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 2 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 -142 182 £725 -3.33% 406
North of England -72 7 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South West - 4 £875 - 6
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -54 2 £875 +133.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £875 - 1
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 (2.56%) MTS
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (9.23%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.56%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.05%) Summit
4 1 (0.51%) Actimize
4 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.51%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.82%) AWS
2 13 (6.67%) Snowflake
3 10 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (5.13%) Azure
3 10 (5.13%) Serverless
4 9 (4.62%) GCP
5 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.05%) Datadog
9 3 (1.54%) GitHub
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Multicast
2 4 (2.05%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.10%) Metadata
3 7 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.59%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.08%) Power BI
5 5 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.05%) KDB
6 4 (2.05%) Kdb+
6 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.05%) Tableau
7 3 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (6.67%) JIRA
2 9 (4.62%) Git
3 7 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.56%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.56%) ERwin
4 5 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.05%) GitLab
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) JMeter
6 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.03%) Maven
6 2 (1.03%) Mocha
6 2 (1.03%) MSTest
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.03%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) QUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Storybook
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (64.10%) Front Office
2 115 (58.97%) Finance
3 100 (51.28%) Banking
4 71 (36.41%) Investment Banking
5 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.18%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.59%) Back Office
9 5 (2.56%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (37.95%) Developer
2 60 (30.77%) Senior
3 46 (23.59%) Java Developer
4 45 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 39 (20.00%) Analyst
6 37 (18.97%) Senior Java Developer
7 35 (17.95%) Business Analyst
8 31 (15.90%) React Developer
9 29 (14.87%) UI Developer
10 27 (13.85%) Senior React Developer
10 27 (13.85%) Senior UI Developer
11 16 (8.21%) Software Engineer
12 15 (7.69%) Lead
13 13 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 12 (6.15%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 10 (5.13%) Technical Business Analyst
16 8 (4.10%) C# Developer
16 8 (4.10%) Quantitative Developer
16 8 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
17 7 (3.59%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.59%) React
2 41 (21.03%) Redux
3 15 (7.69%) .NET
4 13 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (4.10%) Node.js
6 7 (3.59%) OpenFin
7 6 (3.08%) Middleware
7 6 (3.08%) PySpark
8 5 (2.56%) Kafka
8 5 (2.56%) NumPy
8 5 (2.56%) Pandas
8 5 (2.56%) REST
8 5 (2.56%) Terraform
9 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.05%) CSS
9 4 (2.05%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.05%) Flask
9 4 (2.05%) HTML
9 4 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 69 (35.38%) Equities
3 51 (26.15%) Derivative
4 29 (14.87%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.18%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.64%) Reference Data
7 10 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (4.62%) Cloud Native
9 8 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.10%) Hedge funds
10 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (3.08%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.56%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.56%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.56%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.05%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.54%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 20 (10.26%) Unix
3 4 (2.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) Electronic Trading
2 61 (31.28%) Low Latency
3 44 (22.56%) Agile
4 36 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (15.90%) CI/CD
6 29 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (13.85%) Analytics
7 27 (13.85%) Asset Management
7 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
8 26 (13.33%) Validation
9 22 (11.28%) Risk Management
10 21 (10.77%) AI
11 20 (10.26%) Business Analysis
11 20 (10.26%) Investment Management
12 18 (9.23%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (9.23%) Scrum
13 17 (8.72%) DevOps
13 17 (8.72%) Order Management
13 17 (8.72%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 69 (35.38%) Java
2 59 (30.26%) Python
3 52 (26.67%) SQL
4 45 (23.08%) C#
5 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
5 44 (22.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.64%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.08%) C++
8 5 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.56%) Tcl
9 4 (2.05%) Bash
10 3 (1.54%) C
10 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (10.26%) Degree
2 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.56%) PhD
4 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) 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 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.56%) MiFID
2 5 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) GAAP
3 2 (1.03%) IFRS
4 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.51%) EMIR
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.56%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 11 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
3 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Argo
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (6.67%) Tradeweb
2 11 (5.64%) Charles River
2 11 (5.64%) MarketAxess
2 11 (5.64%) Murex
3 10 (5.13%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.62%) Oracle
4 9 (4.62%) Solace
4 9 (4.62%) Sybase
5 6 (3.08%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.54%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.54%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.03%) Calypso
7 2 (1.03%) FIS
7 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.03%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) FactSet
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.51%) Refinitiv