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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 230 148
Rank change year-on-year -208 -82 +95
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 196 318 537
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 1.16% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 3.23% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 286 507
10th Percentile £500 £538 £550
25th Percentile £644 £653 £650
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 £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 15,471 9,838 9,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.71% 35.91% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,448 6,210 6,274
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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 488 458
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.53 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +29.07% -36.84% +10.14%

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 5 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 5 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 -150 183 £725 -3.33% 334
North of England -62 7 £875 - 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South West - 4 £875 - 6
North West - 3 £875 - 1
Midlands -53 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 (2.55%) MTS
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.55%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.04%) 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 23 (11.73%) AWS
2 11 (5.61%) Snowflake
3 10 (5.10%) Azure
4 9 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (4.59%) GCP
4 9 (4.59%) Serverless
5 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.04%) Datadog
9 3 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.53%) GitHub
9 3 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.51%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) Multicast
2 4 (2.04%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.08%) Metadata
3 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.06%) Power BI
5 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.04%) KDB
6 4 (2.04%) Kdb+
6 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.04%) Tableau
7 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.63%) JIRA
2 9 (4.59%) Git
3 7 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.55%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.55%) ERwin
4 5 (2.55%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.04%) GitLab
6 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.02%) JMeter
6 2 (1.02%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.02%) Maven
6 2 (1.02%) Mocha
6 2 (1.02%) MSTest
6 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.02%) Storybook
6 2 (1.02%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.02%) Vite
7 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (63.27%) Front Office
2 115 (58.67%) Finance
3 100 (51.02%) Banking
4 69 (35.20%) Investment Banking
5 43 (21.94%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.63%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.57%) Back Office
9 5 (2.55%) Law
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) 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 (38.78%) Developer
2 61 (31.12%) Senior
3 46 (23.47%) Java Developer
3 46 (23.47%) Senior Developer
4 39 (19.90%) Analyst
5 37 (18.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 34 (17.35%) Business Analyst
7 31 (15.82%) React Developer
8 30 (15.31%) UI Developer
9 27 (13.78%) Senior React Developer
9 27 (13.78%) Senior UI Developer
10 16 (8.16%) Software Engineer
11 14 (7.14%) Lead
12 13 (6.63%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 12 (6.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 10 (5.10%) Technical Business Analyst
15 9 (4.59%) C# Developer
16 8 (4.08%) Quantitative Developer
16 8 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
17 7 (3.57%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.98%) React
2 42 (21.43%) Redux
3 15 (7.65%) .NET
4 13 (6.63%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (4.08%) Node.js
5 8 (4.08%) OpenFin
6 6 (3.06%) Kafka
6 6 (3.06%) Middleware
6 6 (3.06%) PySpark
7 5 (2.55%) NumPy
7 5 (2.55%) Pandas
7 5 (2.55%) REST
7 5 (2.55%) Terraform
8 4 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.04%) CSS
8 4 (2.04%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.04%) Flask
8 4 (2.04%) HTML
8 4 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 77 (39.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 67 (34.18%) Equities
3 50 (25.51%) Derivative
4 29 (14.80%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.14%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (5.10%) Reference Data
8 8 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (4.08%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.57%) Virtual Team
10 6 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.55%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.55%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.53%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.29%) Linux
2 20 (10.20%) Unix
3 4 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.20%) Electronic Trading
2 62 (31.63%) Low Latency
3 42 (21.43%) Agile
4 35 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (14.80%) CI/CD
7 28 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 27 (13.78%) Analytics
9 26 (13.27%) Validation
10 25 (12.76%) Asset Management
11 22 (11.22%) AI
12 21 (10.71%) Risk Management
13 20 (10.20%) Investment Management
14 19 (9.69%) Business Analysis
14 19 (9.69%) Requirements Gathering
15 16 (8.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (8.16%) Scrum
15 16 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.16%) Workflow
16 15 (7.65%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.71%) Java
2 58 (29.59%) Python
3 50 (25.51%) SQL
4 46 (23.47%) C#
5 45 (22.96%) TypeScript
6 44 (22.45%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.61%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.06%) C++
9 5 (2.55%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.55%) Tcl
10 4 (2.04%) Bash
11 3 (1.53%) C
11 3 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (9.18%) Degree
2 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.55%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.55%) PhD
4 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.02%) 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 8 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.06%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) MiFID
4 2 (1.02%) GAAP
4 2 (1.02%) IFRS
5 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.51%) EMIR
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.55%) Docker
3 2 (1.02%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.06%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.53%) Ansible
3 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (6.63%) Tradeweb
2 11 (5.61%) MarketAxess
3 10 (5.10%) Bloomberg
3 10 (5.10%) Solace
4 9 (4.59%) Charles River
4 9 (4.59%) Murex
4 9 (4.59%) Oracle
4 9 (4.59%) Sybase
5 6 (3.06%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.53%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.53%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.02%) Calypso
7 2 (1.02%) FIS
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.02%) 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