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 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 169 202
Rank change year-on-year -199 +33 +63
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 208 380 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 1.55% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 4.55% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 349 405
10th Percentile £525 £550 £550
25th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £850
90th Percentile £850 £938 £900
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 13,005 8,348 11,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.55% 34.12% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,252 5,465 7,530
10th Percentile £305 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 325 825
10th Percentile £16.03 £16.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% +10.17% +31.11%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -129 206 £750 +3.45% 27
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South West - 1 £725 - 1
North of England - 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 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.88%) Summit
3 5 (2.40%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.44%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.48%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.58%) AWS
2 29 (13.94%) GCP
3 27 (12.98%) Azure
4 10 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (4.81%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.37%) GitHub
5 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.92%) SaaS
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.44%) Serverless
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.96%) Collibra
9 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.96%) HTTP
1 2 (0.96%) Multicast
2 1 (0.48%) RTMP
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.88%) Metadata
4 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.40%) Flink
5 5 (2.40%) KDB
5 5 (2.40%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.92%) Power BI
6 4 (1.92%) Tableau
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.96%) Power Query
8 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.48%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.85%) JIRA
2 7 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.40%) Git
4 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.96%) Maven
4 2 (0.96%) Selenium
4 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.96%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.48%) Mocha
5 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.48%) MSTest
5 1 (0.48%) NUnit
5 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 137 (65.87%) Finance
2 117 (56.25%) Front Office
3 69 (33.17%) Banking
4 50 (24.04%) Social Skills
5 37 (17.79%) Investment Banking
6 36 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (9.13%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Back Office
9 3 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (51.92%) Developer
2 50 (24.04%) Software Engineer
3 45 (21.63%) Lead
4 44 (21.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 40 (19.23%) Analyst
6 39 (18.75%) Business Analyst
7 37 (17.79%) Lead Developer
8 32 (15.38%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (14.90%) Java Developer
9 31 (14.90%) Senior
10 27 (12.98%) Python Developer
11 21 (10.10%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (10.10%) Senior Developer
12 20 (9.62%) React Developer
13 17 (8.17%) Python Engineer
14 16 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 13 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
16 12 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (5.77%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.40%) React
2 54 (25.96%) Redux
3 50 (24.04%) Node.js
4 49 (23.56%) Kafka
5 32 (15.38%) GraphQL
6 14 (6.73%) .NET
7 11 (5.29%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.85%) REST
8 8 (3.85%) Vue
8 8 (3.85%) XML
9 7 (3.37%) Pandas
10 6 (2.88%) NumPy
11 5 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (2.40%) HTML
11 5 (2.40%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.92%) HTML5
12 4 (1.92%) RESTful
12 4 (1.92%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.44%) CSS
13 3 (1.44%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.85%) Equities
2 52 (25.00%) Derivative
3 37 (17.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (5.77%) Reference Data
5 11 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.81%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.33%) Market Risk
8 7 (3.37%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (2.88%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.92%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.92%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.44%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.44%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.62%) Linux
2 16 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (37.02%) Agile
2 58 (27.88%) Investment Management
2 58 (27.88%) Software Engineering
3 53 (25.48%) Portfolio Management
4 52 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
5 41 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (16.35%) Order Management
7 31 (14.90%) Asset Management
8 27 (12.98%) Analytics
8 27 (12.98%) CI/CD
9 26 (12.50%) Fintech
10 25 (12.02%) Low Latency
11 24 (11.54%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.06%) AI
13 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (9.62%) DevOps
15 19 (9.13%) Risk Management
16 18 (8.65%) Machine Learning
17 17 (8.17%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (53.37%) Python
2 71 (34.13%) Java
3 59 (28.37%) JavaScript
3 59 (28.37%) TypeScript
4 55 (26.44%) SQL
5 32 (15.38%) Go
6 11 (5.29%) C#
7 8 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.44%) C++
8 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) Perl
9 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (10.10%) Degree
2 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.44%) PhD
5 2 (0.96%) CISM
5 2 (0.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.48%) ACCA
6 1 (0.48%) CFA
6 1 (0.48%) CISA
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) QA
2 12 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
3 3 (1.44%) IFRS
4 2 (0.96%) MiFID
4 2 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Basel III
5 1 (0.48%) EMIR
5 1 (0.48%) GAAP
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) ITGC
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) GridGain
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.85%) Terraform
3 5 (2.40%) Ansible
3 5 (2.40%) Argo
4 3 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 14 (6.73%) Murex
2 13 (6.25%) Oracle
3 12 (5.77%) Bloomberg
4 10 (4.81%) ION Trading
5 8 (3.85%) Charles River
6 6 (2.88%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.44%) MarketAxess
7 3 (1.44%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.44%) Solace
7 3 (1.44%) Sybase
7 3 (1.44%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.96%) Citrix
8 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.96%) Databricks
8 2 (0.96%) Reuters
8 2 (0.96%) Splunk
8 2 (0.96%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) TIBCO