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 3 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 203 140
Rank change year-on-year -127 -63 +77
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 115 164 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 1.15% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.27% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 146 255
10th Percentile £500 £550 £563
25th Percentile £659 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £888
90th Percentile - £875 -
UK median daily rate £765 £750 £800
% change year-on-year +2.03% -6.25% +14.29%

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 7,878 5,018 4,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 35.23% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,824 3,109 3,041
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £650 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £538
% change year-on-year +3.75% -5.90% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 293 188
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.13 £15.70
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £24.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -46.19% +44.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +49.02% -37.89% +35.71%

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 3 months to 31 July 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 3 months to 31 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -116 102 £755 +0.67% 75
North of England -49 7 £875 -
South West - 4 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -17 2 £875 +133.33%
West Midlands - 2 £875 -
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 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.41%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.06%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.65%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.65%) Summit
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.41%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.69%) AWS
2 36 (14.81%) GCP
3 32 (13.17%) Azure
4 14 (5.76%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.12%) Serverless
6 7 (2.88%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.47%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.23%) Datadog
9 3 (1.23%) GitHub
10 2 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.47%) Multicast
2 4 (1.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.29%) Metadata
4 6 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.47%) Power BI
4 6 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.65%) KDB
6 4 (1.65%) Kdb+
6 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.65%) Tableau
7 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Power Query
8 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.94%) JIRA
2 6 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.06%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.06%) ERwin
3 5 (2.06%) Git
3 5 (2.06%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Mocha
4 3 (1.23%) MSTest
4 3 (1.23%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.82%) JMeter
5 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.82%) Maven
5 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 162 (66.67%) Finance
1 162 (66.67%) Front Office
2 97 (39.92%) Banking
3 66 (27.16%) Investment Banking
4 46 (18.93%) Social Skills
5 36 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.17%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.06%) Back Office
7 5 (2.06%) Law
8 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) French Language
10 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 124 (51.03%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) Software Engineer
3 58 (23.87%) Senior
4 56 (23.05%) Java Developer
5 52 (21.40%) Lead
6 48 (19.75%) React Developer
7 45 (18.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 45 (18.52%) Senior Developer
8 39 (16.05%) Analyst
9 38 (15.64%) Lead Developer
9 38 (15.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (14.40%) Business Analyst
11 33 (13.58%) UI Developer
12 32 (13.17%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (13.17%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (11.11%) Senior UI Developer
14 17 (7.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 14 (5.76%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 14 (5.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (38.27%) React
2 86 (35.39%) Redux
3 56 (23.05%) Node.js
4 39 (16.05%) Kafka
5 33 (13.58%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.41%) .NET
7 13 (5.35%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.53%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.29%) Pandas
9 8 (3.29%) Vue
10 7 (2.88%) NumPy
10 7 (2.88%) OpenFin
11 6 (2.47%) HTML
11 6 (2.47%) Middleware
11 6 (2.47%) PySpark
11 6 (2.47%) REST
11 6 (2.47%) RESTful
12 5 (2.06%) CSS
13 4 (1.65%) Django
13 4 (1.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.98%) Equities
2 75 (30.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (24.69%) Derivative
4 29 (11.93%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (6.58%) Market Risk
6 12 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.94%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.88%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.47%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.06%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.06%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.47%) Linux
2 21 (8.64%) Unix
3 4 (1.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (38.68%) Agile
2 75 (30.86%) Software Engineering
3 69 (28.40%) Electronic Trading
4 63 (25.93%) Investment Management
5 62 (25.51%) Low Latency
6 56 (23.05%) Portfolio Management
7 49 (20.16%) Order Management
8 40 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.05%) Asset Management
10 35 (14.40%) CI/CD
11 29 (11.93%) Analytics
12 28 (11.52%) Mentoring
13 26 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.47%) Fintech
14 23 (9.47%) Validation
15 22 (9.05%) AI
16 20 (8.23%) Business Analysis
16 20 (8.23%) Risk Management
16 20 (8.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.39%) Python
2 101 (41.56%) Java
3 93 (38.27%) JavaScript
4 92 (37.86%) TypeScript
5 53 (21.81%) SQL
6 44 (18.11%) C#
7 32 (13.17%) Go
8 13 (5.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.88%) C++
10 6 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.65%) C
12 3 (1.23%) Bash
12 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) R
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.05%) Degree
2 12 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.65%) PhD
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ACCA
5 1 (0.41%) CISA
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.88%) QA
3 5 (2.06%) MiFID
4 2 (0.82%) GAAP
4 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.41%) EMIR
5 1 (0.41%) ITGC
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 10 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (1.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.41%) Murex
2 13 (5.35%) Charles River
3 9 (3.70%) Oracle
3 9 (3.70%) Solace
4 8 (3.29%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.47%) MarketAxess
5 6 (2.47%) Tradeweb
6 5 (2.06%) Sybase
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.23%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.82%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Advent
10 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.41%) Databricks
10 1 (0.41%) FactSet
10 1 (0.41%) FIS
10 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.41%) SimCorp