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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 182 246
Rank change year-on-year -98 +64 -25
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 264 445 397
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.40% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 4.48% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 407 367
10th Percentile £538 £563 £550
25th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £844
90th Percentile £875 £888 £943
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 10,330 9,929 13,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.36% 31.27% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,465 5,970 9,061
10th Percentile £294 £295 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £808 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 335 440
10th Percentile £14.37 £17.15 £17.11
25th Percentile £18.44 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.36 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% +16.67% +73.71%
75th Percentile £51.56 £70.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.16 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £45.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.87% +2.45% +71.15%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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 -54 261 £750 -6.25% 76
Yorkshire -21 2 - -
North of England -31 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 £375 -
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 67 (25.38%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (15.15%) Apache
3 8 (3.03%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (9.85%) Aladdin
2 11 (4.17%) thinkFolio
3 7 (2.65%) Fidessa
4 6 (2.27%) ION MarketView
5 3 (1.14%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.76%) BondVision
Cloud Services
1 113 (42.80%) AWS
2 67 (25.38%) dbt
3 53 (20.08%) GCP
4 44 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 34 (12.88%) Azure
6 10 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.89%) Serverless
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.76%) SaaS
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.38%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.52%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) Multicast
3 2 (0.76%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.76%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (25.38%) Amazon Athena
1 67 (25.38%) Apache Arrow
1 67 (25.38%) Apache Iceberg
1 67 (25.38%) Dremio
2 43 (16.29%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (15.15%) Apache Ignite
3 40 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.82%) KDB
5 12 (4.55%) Kdb+
5 12 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.41%) Power BI
7 7 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.89%) Data Mart
8 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.14%) Power Query
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.55%) JIRA
2 7 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.89%) QUnit
4 3 (1.14%) Git
4 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.76%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 216 (81.82%) Finance
2 186 (70.45%) Front Office
3 106 (40.15%) Banking
4 73 (27.65%) Investment Banking
5 54 (20.45%) Social Skills
6 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.20%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.41%) Back Office
9 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Law
10 3 (1.14%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (43.56%) Developer
2 108 (40.91%) Software Engineer
3 67 (25.38%) AWS Engineer
3 67 (25.38%) AWS Software Engineer
4 65 (24.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 60 (22.73%) Python Engineer
5 60 (22.73%) Senior
6 59 (22.35%) Python Software Engineer
7 52 (19.70%) Java Engineer
7 52 (19.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 50 (18.94%) Analyst
9 40 (15.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 39 (14.77%) Senior Java Engineer
10 39 (14.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 37 (14.02%) Business Analyst
12 33 (12.50%) Python Developer
13 27 (10.23%) AWS Developer
14 24 (9.09%) Java Developer
15 23 (8.71%) React Developer
16 18 (6.82%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (28.41%) React
2 71 (26.89%) NumPy
3 70 (26.52%) Pandas
4 68 (25.76%) SciPy
5 55 (20.83%) Node.js
6 40 (15.15%) gRPC
6 40 (15.15%) Protocol Buffers
7 37 (14.02%) Redux
8 36 (13.64%) AngularJS
8 36 (13.64%) Vue
9 26 (9.85%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (5.68%) .NET
10 15 (5.68%) Kafka
11 14 (5.30%) REST
12 12 (4.55%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.79%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.65%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (2.65%) Middleware
15 5 (1.89%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 144 (54.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 121 (45.83%) Equities
3 98 (37.12%) Derivative
4 69 (26.14%) Hedge funds
5 40 (15.15%) Pricing Data
6 21 (7.95%) Algorithms
7 16 (6.06%) Product Ownership
8 15 (5.68%) Cloud Native
8 15 (5.68%) Data Structures
9 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
10 11 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.27%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.52%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.14%) Market Risk
15 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.12%) Linux
2 12 (4.55%) Unix
3 6 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (61.36%) Agile
2 125 (47.35%) Investment Management
3 123 (46.59%) Software Engineering
4 115 (43.56%) Asset Management
5 58 (21.97%) Fintech
6 45 (17.05%) Order Management
7 44 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 37 (14.02%) Analytics
9 34 (12.88%) Electronic Trading
10 32 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (11.74%) Performance Attribution
12 27 (10.23%) Portfolio Management
13 25 (9.47%) DevOps
13 25 (9.47%) Low Latency
14 23 (8.71%) Computer Science
14 23 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.95%) TDD
16 20 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (7.58%) Scrum
17 19 (7.20%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 159 (60.23%) Python
2 110 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 105 (39.77%) TypeScript
4 82 (31.06%) Java
5 62 (23.48%) SQL
6 23 (8.71%) C#
7 12 (4.55%) Go
8 11 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.03%) C++
10 3 (1.14%) Bash
10 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Tcl
11 2 (0.76%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) C
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (7.95%) Degree
2 13 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.76%) PhD
4 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.76%) PMP
4 2 (0.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.38%) CBAP
5 1 (0.38%) CFA
5 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.79%) MiFID
2 8 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.03%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) EMIR
4 1 (0.38%) Basel III
4 1 (0.38%) FINRA
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (5.68%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (2.65%) Kibana
2 7 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.65%) logstash
3 4 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.14%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (7.58%) Murex
2 17 (6.44%) ION Trading
3 14 (5.30%) Bloomberg
4 11 (4.17%) BISAM
4 11 (4.17%) Charles River
5 10 (3.79%) Calypso
6 9 (3.41%) Solace
7 7 (2.65%) SimCorp
7 7 (2.65%) TIBCO
7 7 (2.65%) Tradeweb
8 6 (2.27%) Databricks
8 6 (2.27%) Oracle
8 6 (2.27%) Reuters
9 5 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.89%) Microsoft
10 4 (1.52%) Portware
11 3 (1.14%) CQG
11 3 (1.14%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.76%) MarketAxess
12 2 (0.76%) Splunk