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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 184 175
Rank change year-on-year -201 -9 +66
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 211 355 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.48% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 4.32% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 324 467
10th Percentile £520 £550 £550
25th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £880 £938 £900
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £775
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%

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 13,329 8,220 11,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 34.26% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,401 5,373 7,334
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 330 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.61 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.73 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% -1.43% +56.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.98 £32.05 £32.12
% change year-on-year +27.86% -0.20% +45.98%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -109 210 £750 - 36
South West - 1 £725 - 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 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.84%) Summit
3 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.47%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.07%) AWS
2 32 (15.17%) GCP
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 12 (5.69%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.37%) Serverless
6 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.90%) GitHub
6 4 (1.90%) SaaS
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.95%) Collibra
8 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) Multicast
2 1 (0.47%) RTMP
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.21%) Relational Database
2 11 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.27%) Metadata
4 6 (2.84%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.37%) KDB
5 5 (2.37%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.37%) Power BI
6 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.90%) Tableau
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.95%) Power Query
8 1 (0.47%) Flink
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.47%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.79%) JIRA
2 5 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.90%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.90%) ERwin
3 4 (1.90%) Git
3 4 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.95%) JMeter
4 2 (0.95%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.95%) Maven
4 2 (0.95%) Mocha
4 2 (0.95%) MSTest
4 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.95%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 132 (62.56%) Finance
2 121 (57.35%) Front Office
3 68 (32.23%) Banking
4 48 (22.75%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Investment Banking
6 32 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (9.00%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Back Office
8 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Law
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 107 (50.71%) Developer
2 53 (25.12%) Software Engineer
3 48 (22.75%) Lead
4 44 (20.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 42 (19.91%) Analyst
6 41 (19.43%) Business Analyst
7 37 (17.54%) Lead Developer
8 34 (16.11%) Java Developer
9 33 (15.64%) Senior
10 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Developer
10 32 (15.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 23 (10.90%) React Developer
12 21 (9.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 21 (9.95%) Python Developer
13 20 (9.48%) Senior Developer
14 16 (7.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 15 (7.11%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (6.64%) Python Engineer
17 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
18 9 (4.27%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.49%) React
2 55 (26.07%) Redux
3 50 (23.70%) Node.js
4 41 (19.43%) Kafka
5 33 (15.64%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.11%) .NET
7 12 (5.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.79%) Vue
8 8 (3.79%) XML
9 7 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (3.32%) Pandas
10 6 (2.84%) HTML
10 6 (2.84%) NumPy
10 6 (2.84%) REST
11 5 (2.37%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (1.90%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
13 3 (1.42%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.86%) Equities
2 53 (25.12%) Derivative
3 44 (20.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.58%) Reference Data
5 12 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.74%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.32%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.37%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.53%) Linux
2 14 (6.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.02%) Agile
2 61 (28.91%) Software Engineering
3 55 (26.07%) Investment Management
4 53 (25.12%) Portfolio Management
5 52 (24.64%) Electronic Trading
6 39 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (16.59%) Order Management
8 34 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (15.64%) Asset Management
10 30 (14.22%) Low Latency
11 29 (13.74%) CI/CD
12 27 (12.80%) Mentoring
13 26 (12.32%) Analytics
14 25 (11.85%) AI
15 22 (10.43%) Fintech
16 20 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (9.00%) Risk Management
17 19 (9.00%) Test Automation
18 18 (8.53%) Machine Learning
19 17 (8.06%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (47.39%) Python
2 74 (35.07%) Java
3 61 (28.91%) JavaScript
4 59 (27.96%) TypeScript
5 51 (24.17%) SQL
6 32 (15.17%) Go
7 13 (6.16%) C#
8 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.42%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (10.43%) Degree
2 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.95%) PhD
4 1 (0.47%) ACCA
4 1 (0.47%) CFA
4 1 (0.47%) CISA
4 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.47%) PMP
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) MiFID
4 3 (1.42%) IFRS
5 2 (0.95%) EMIR
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.47%) GAAP
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) GridGain
2 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.84%) Terraform
3 4 (1.90%) Ansible
4 2 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.47%) Argo
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Murex
2 14 (6.64%) Oracle
3 10 (4.74%) Charles River
4 9 (4.27%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.79%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.37%) Solace
7 4 (1.90%) Sybase
8 3 (1.42%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.95%) Citrix
9 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.95%) Reuters
9 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.95%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.47%) FactSet
10 1 (0.47%) FIS
10 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.47%) Splunk