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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 202 275
Rank change year-on-year -150 +73 -36
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 207 376 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.31% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 4.05% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 333 286
10th Percentile £525 £588 £600
25th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £850
90th Percentile £928 £936 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +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 11,234 9,290 11,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 32.43% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,090 5,621 7,916
10th Percentile £281 £278 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £745 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.70% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 274 460
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.67
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.59 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.51% +25.12%
75th Percentile £63.21 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 -90 205 £750 +1.69% 48
Yorkshire -40 2 - -
North of England -45 2 - -
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 34 (16.43%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (11.59%) Apache
3 6 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.90%) Fidessa
2 6 (2.90%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.93%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.97%) BondVision
5 1 (0.48%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 65 (31.40%) AWS
2 34 (16.43%) dbt
3 29 (14.01%) Snowflake
4 21 (10.14%) Azure
5 11 (5.31%) GCP
6 10 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (2.90%) GitHub
8 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.42%) Serverless
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.97%) SaaS
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.48%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) Firewall
1 2 (0.97%) Multicast
1 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.97%) tcpdump
1 2 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.43%) Amazon Athena
1 34 (16.43%) Apache Arrow
1 34 (16.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 34 (16.43%) Dremio
2 25 (12.08%) Data Lake
3 24 (11.59%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (7.73%) KDB
5 14 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.28%) Kdb+
7 11 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.90%) Flink
9 5 (2.42%) Data Mart
9 5 (2.42%) Power BI
10 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.97%) Tableau
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.80%) JIRA
2 9 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.90%) Git
4 5 (2.42%) QUnit
5 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.97%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 152 (73.43%) Finance
2 118 (57.00%) Front Office
3 81 (39.13%) Banking
4 58 (28.02%) Investment Banking
5 57 (27.54%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (10.63%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.86%) Back Office
9 5 (2.42%) Legal
10 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.45%) Law
12 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (36.71%) Developer
2 49 (23.67%) Software Engineer
3 45 (21.74%) Senior
4 42 (20.29%) Python Engineer
5 40 (19.32%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (16.43%) AWS Software Engineer
6 34 (16.43%) Python Software Engineer
7 32 (15.46%) Analyst
8 29 (14.01%) Business Analyst
9 28 (13.53%) Java Engineer
9 28 (13.53%) Java Software Engineer
9 28 (13.53%) Python Developer
10 24 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 23 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
11 23 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 18 (8.70%) Senior Developer
13 15 (7.25%) Java Developer
14 13 (6.28%) Lead
15 12 (5.80%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.43%) NumPy
1 34 (16.43%) Pandas
1 34 (16.43%) SciPy
2 33 (15.94%) React
3 28 (13.53%) Kafka
4 24 (11.59%) gRPC
4 24 (11.59%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (10.63%) Node.js
6 18 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
6 18 (8.70%) REST
7 14 (6.76%) .NET
8 13 (6.28%) Redux
9 12 (5.80%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.83%) Vue
11 8 (3.86%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.38%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.90%) Dask
13 6 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (41.06%) Equities
2 84 (40.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (32.37%) Derivative
4 34 (16.43%) Hedge funds
5 24 (11.59%) Pricing Data
6 19 (9.18%) Algorithms
7 18 (8.70%) Cloud Native
8 16 (7.73%) Product Ownership
9 13 (6.28%) Data Structures
10 12 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (5.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (4.35%) Reference Data
13 7 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
15 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.45%) Credit Risk
16 2 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
16 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 2 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.91%) Linux
2 12 (5.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.10%) Agile
2 62 (29.95%) Software Engineering
3 59 (28.50%) Investment Management
4 46 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 42 (20.29%) Electronic Trading
6 38 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.98%) DevOps
7 31 (14.98%) Risk Management
8 28 (13.53%) Analytics
8 28 (13.53%) Order Management
9 24 (11.59%) Low Latency
10 23 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.63%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.63%) Fintech
12 20 (9.66%) Computer Science
13 17 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.73%) Multithreading
15 15 (7.25%) Portfolio Management
16 13 (6.28%) Design Patterns
16 13 (6.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (53.14%) Python
2 56 (27.05%) Java
2 56 (27.05%) SQL
3 53 (25.60%) JavaScript
4 49 (23.67%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.25%) C#
6 12 (5.80%) Go
7 10 (4.83%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.93%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) Bash
9 2 (0.97%) Perl
9 2 (0.97%) Tcl
9 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.97%) VBA
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (12.08%) Degree
2 11 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (5.31%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.90%) PhD
4 2 (0.97%) CISM
4 2 (0.97%) CISSP
4 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.48%) PMP
5 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) QA
2 11 (5.31%) MiFID
3 7 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.42%) EMIR
5 2 (0.97%) Basel III
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (7.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.80%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.90%) Argo
3 6 (2.90%) Kibana
3 6 (2.90%) logstash
4 5 (2.42%) Ansible
5 4 (1.93%) Terraform
6 2 (0.97%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.97%) Grafana
6 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) ION Trading
2 15 (7.25%) Murex
3 14 (6.76%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.35%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.86%) Solace
6 7 (3.38%) Databricks
7 6 (2.90%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.90%) TIBCO
8 5 (2.42%) Charles River
8 5 (2.42%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.93%) Portware
10 3 (1.45%) Oracle
10 3 (1.45%) Reuters
11 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.97%) CQG
11 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.97%) Splunk
11 2 (0.97%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.48%) FIS