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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 205 153
Rank change year-on-year -180 -52 +89
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 246 359 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.31% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 3.76% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 318 531
10th Percentile £515 £538 £563
25th Percentile £659 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £875 £872 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -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 14,953 9,537 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.27% 34.85% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,270 6,034 7,052
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 807 475 662
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.49 £12.29
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.87 £16.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -22.61% +2.98%
75th Percentile £72.25 £60.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £87.50 £80.00 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%

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 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 6 months to 24 July 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 -115 233 £750 - 76
North of England -61 6 £875 - 1
South West - 5 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Midlands -51 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 - 1
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 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.03%) Fidessa
2 5 (2.03%) Summit
3 4 (1.63%) Loan IQ
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 79 (32.11%) AWS
2 36 (14.63%) GCP
3 32 (13.01%) Azure
4 14 (5.69%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.07%) Serverless
6 7 (2.85%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.03%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.22%) Datadog
9 3 (1.22%) GitHub
10 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.81%) Collibra
10 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) Multicast
2 4 (1.63%) VPN
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.66%) Metadata
4 7 (2.85%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.03%) Power BI
6 5 (2.03%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.63%) KDB
7 4 (1.63%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.63%) Tableau
8 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) Power Query
9 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.88%) JIRA
2 6 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.03%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.03%) ERwin
3 5 (2.03%) Git
3 5 (2.03%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.22%) GitLab
4 3 (1.22%) Mocha
4 3 (1.22%) MSTest
4 3 (1.22%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.81%) JMeter
5 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 163 (66.26%) Finance
1 163 (66.26%) Front Office
2 98 (39.84%) Banking
3 66 (26.83%) Investment Banking
4 46 (18.70%) Social Skills
5 37 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.10%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.44%) Back Office
8 5 (2.03%) Law
9 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (50.81%) Developer
2 62 (25.20%) Software Engineer
3 58 (23.58%) Java Developer
3 58 (23.58%) Senior
4 52 (21.14%) Lead
5 48 (19.51%) React Developer
6 45 (18.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 45 (18.29%) Senior Developer
7 41 (16.67%) Analyst
8 39 (15.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (15.45%) Lead Developer
10 37 (15.04%) Business Analyst
11 33 (13.41%) UI Developer
12 32 (13.01%) Lead Software Developer
12 32 (13.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (10.98%) Senior React Developer
13 27 (10.98%) Senior UI Developer
14 18 (7.32%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 15 (6.10%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 14 (5.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (37.80%) React
2 86 (34.96%) Redux
3 56 (22.76%) Node.js
4 39 (15.85%) Kafka
5 33 (13.41%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.32%) .NET
7 13 (5.28%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.25%) Vue
10 7 (2.85%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.85%) Pandas
11 6 (2.44%) HTML
11 6 (2.44%) Middleware
11 6 (2.44%) NumPy
11 6 (2.44%) RESTful
11 6 (2.44%) XML
12 5 (2.03%) CSS
12 5 (2.03%) PySpark
12 5 (2.03%) REST
13 4 (1.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.55%) Equities
2 78 (31.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (24.39%) Derivative
4 29 (11.79%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (6.50%) Market Risk
6 12 (4.88%) Reference Data
7 11 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.44%) Credit Risk
11 6 (2.44%) Hedge funds
11 6 (2.44%) Virtual Team
12 5 (2.03%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
14 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.35%) Linux
2 20 (8.13%) Unix
3 3 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (39.02%) Agile
2 75 (30.49%) Software Engineering
3 71 (28.86%) Electronic Trading
4 63 (25.61%) Investment Management
4 63 (25.61%) Low Latency
5 56 (22.76%) Portfolio Management
6 48 (19.51%) Order Management
7 41 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.26%) Asset Management
8 40 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (14.63%) CI/CD
10 29 (11.79%) Analytics
10 29 (11.79%) Mentoring
11 25 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (9.76%) Validation
13 23 (9.35%) AI
13 23 (9.35%) Fintech
14 22 (8.94%) Risk Management
15 21 (8.54%) Business Analysis
15 21 (8.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.87%) Java
1 103 (41.87%) Python
2 93 (37.80%) JavaScript
3 92 (37.40%) TypeScript
4 54 (21.95%) SQL
5 43 (17.48%) C#
6 32 (13.01%) Go
7 12 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.44%) C++
8 6 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.22%) Bash
9 3 (1.22%) C
9 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (9.35%) Degree
2 12 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.63%) PhD
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ACCA
5 1 (0.41%) CFA
5 1 (0.41%) CISA
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.85%) QA
3 5 (2.03%) MiFID
4 2 (0.81%) GAAP
4 2 (0.81%) 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 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.03%) Docker
3 2 (0.81%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.03%) Ansible
3 4 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.63%) Terraform
4 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.32%) Murex
2 14 (5.69%) Charles River
3 10 (4.07%) Oracle
4 9 (3.66%) Solace
5 8 (3.25%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.44%) MarketAxess
6 6 (2.44%) Tradeweb
7 5 (2.03%) Sybase
8 4 (1.63%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.22%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.81%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.41%) Advent
11 1 (0.41%) Calypso
11 1 (0.41%) Citrix
11 1 (0.41%) FIS
11 1 (0.41%) Reuters
11 1 (0.41%) SGI
11 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.41%) SunGard