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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 199 272
Rank change year-on-year -144 +73 -47
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 214 383 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.31% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 4.04% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 340 291
10th Percentile £524 £588 £600
25th Percentile £625 £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £847
90th Percentile £880 £889 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £720
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -0.69%
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 11,131 9,488 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.80% 32.35% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,739 8,208
10th Percentile £282 £285 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.68%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 287 456
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.60 £16.80
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.30 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% -14.04% +24.64%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.27 £42.40
% change year-on-year -18.21% -21.54% +21.15%

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 14 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 14 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 -90 211 £750 - 29
North of England -38 2 - -
Yorkshire -43 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 37 (17.29%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (12.15%) Apache
3 6 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.54%) Aladdin
2 7 (3.27%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.80%) ION MarketView
4 4 (1.87%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.93%) BondVision
6 1 (0.47%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 69 (32.24%) AWS
2 37 (17.29%) dbt
3 31 (14.49%) Snowflake
4 24 (11.21%) Azure
5 13 (6.07%) GCP
6 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.27%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.80%) GitHub
9 6 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.34%) Serverless
11 4 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.93%) SaaS
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.47%) Lucidchart
13 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Multicast
2 2 (0.93%) tcpdump
2 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.29%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (17.29%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (17.29%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (17.29%) Dremio
2 27 (12.62%) Data Lake
3 26 (12.15%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (7.94%) KDB
5 16 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.07%) Kdb+
7 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.27%) Power BI
9 6 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.80%) Flink
10 5 (2.34%) Data Mart
11 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.40%) Power Query
13 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.93%) Tableau
14 1 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.61%) JIRA
2 9 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.80%) Git
4 5 (2.34%) QUnit
5 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.93%) GitLab
6 2 (0.93%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 162 (75.70%) Finance
2 127 (59.35%) Front Office
3 82 (38.32%) Banking
4 59 (27.57%) Investment Banking
5 56 (26.17%) Social Skills
6 26 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.81%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.74%) Back Office
9 4 (1.87%) Legal
9 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.40%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (37.38%) Developer
2 53 (24.77%) Software Engineer
3 48 (22.43%) Senior
4 45 (21.03%) Python Engineer
5 43 (20.09%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (17.29%) AWS Software Engineer
6 37 (17.29%) Python Software Engineer
7 34 (15.89%) Analyst
8 30 (14.02%) Java Engineer
8 30 (14.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 30 (14.02%) Python Developer
9 29 (13.55%) Business Analyst
10 26 (12.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (11.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 25 (11.68%) Senior Java Engineer
11 25 (11.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 20 (9.35%) Senior Developer
13 15 (7.01%) Java Developer
14 13 (6.07%) Lead
15 11 (5.14%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.76%) NumPy
1 38 (17.76%) Pandas
2 37 (17.29%) SciPy
3 36 (16.82%) React
4 28 (13.08%) Kafka
5 26 (12.15%) gRPC
5 26 (12.15%) Protocol Buffers
6 24 (11.21%) Node.js
7 19 (8.88%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (8.41%) REST
9 15 (7.01%) .NET
10 14 (6.54%) Redux
11 12 (5.61%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.14%) AngularJS
12 11 (5.14%) Vue
13 8 (3.74%) .NET Framework
14 7 (3.27%) .NET Core
15 6 (2.80%) Dask
15 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (2.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (42.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 88 (41.12%) Equities
3 73 (34.11%) Derivative
4 36 (16.82%) Hedge funds
5 26 (12.15%) Pricing Data
6 19 (8.88%) Algorithms
6 19 (8.88%) Product Ownership
7 18 (8.41%) Cloud Native
8 14 (6.54%) Data Structures
9 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (4.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (4.21%) Reference Data
12 7 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.87%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
15 2 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.89%) Linux
2 12 (5.61%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (42.99%) Agile
2 67 (31.31%) Software Engineering
3 64 (29.91%) Investment Management
4 50 (23.36%) Asset Management
5 40 (18.69%) Electronic Trading
6 35 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.95%) DevOps
7 32 (14.95%) Risk Management
8 29 (13.55%) Analytics
8 29 (13.55%) Order Management
9 27 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (11.68%) Fintech
10 25 (11.68%) Low Latency
11 23 (10.75%) CI/CD
12 22 (10.28%) Computer Science
13 19 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.48%) Quantitative Finance
15 15 (7.01%) Multithreading
15 15 (7.01%) Portfolio Management
15 15 (7.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (54.21%) Python
2 59 (27.57%) Java
3 58 (27.10%) SQL
4 57 (26.64%) JavaScript
5 53 (24.77%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.94%) C#
7 12 (5.61%) Go
8 10 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.87%) C++
10 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Bash
11 2 (0.93%) Perl
11 2 (0.93%) Tcl
11 2 (0.93%) VBA
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (12.15%) Degree
2 12 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.14%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.80%) PhD
5 2 (0.93%) CISM
5 2 (0.93%) CISSP
5 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) MiFID
1 11 (5.14%) QA
2 8 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.34%) EMIR
4 2 (0.93%) Basel III
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (7.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.80%) Argo
3 6 (2.80%) Kibana
3 6 (2.80%) logstash
4 5 (2.34%) Ansible
5 4 (1.87%) Terraform
6 2 (0.93%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.93%) Grafana
6 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (8.41%) ION Trading
2 16 (7.48%) Murex
3 15 (7.01%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.21%) Tradeweb
5 8 (3.74%) Solace
6 7 (3.27%) Databricks
7 6 (2.80%) MarketAxess
7 6 (2.80%) TIBCO
8 5 (2.34%) Charles River
8 5 (2.34%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.87%) Portware
9 4 (1.87%) Reuters
10 3 (1.40%) CQG
10 3 (1.40%) Oracle
10 3 (1.40%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.93%) Splunk
12 1 (0.47%) FIS