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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 189 176
Rank change year-on-year -185 -13 +73
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 217 343 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 1.43% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 4.18% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 313 473
10th Percentile £505 £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 £938 £938 £898
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 13,499 8,211 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.37% 34.30% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,479 5,331 7,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -3.18% -3.42%
75th Percentile £636 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 345 838
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.28
Median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -3.70% +59.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £83.76 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.03 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.64% +59.09%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -125 211 £750 - 75
North of England -75 3 £875 - 6
South West - 3 £875 - 1
North East - 2 £875 - 2
North West - 1 £875 - 3
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 (0.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.76%) Summit
3 5 (2.30%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.92%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.46%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.46%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.64%) AWS
2 33 (15.21%) GCP
3 30 (13.82%) Azure
4 12 (5.53%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.76%) Serverless
6 5 (2.30%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.30%) SaaS
7 4 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.84%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.38%) GitHub
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.92%) Collibra
9 2 (0.92%) Datadog
9 2 (0.92%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.92%) HTTP
1 2 (0.92%) Multicast
2 1 (0.46%) RTMP
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.61%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.15%) Metadata
5 6 (2.76%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.30%) Power BI
7 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.84%) KDB
7 4 (1.84%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.84%) Tableau
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.92%) Power Query
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.46%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.84%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.84%) ERwin
3 4 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.38%) Git
5 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.92%) JMeter
5 2 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.92%) Maven
5 2 (0.92%) Mocha
5 2 (0.92%) MSTest
5 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.92%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 141 (64.98%) Finance
2 131 (60.37%) Front Office
3 78 (35.94%) Banking
4 50 (23.04%) Investment Banking
5 46 (21.20%) Social Skills
6 33 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.29%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.76%) Back Office
9 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.84%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Law
11 2 (0.92%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.92%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (52.53%) Developer
2 53 (24.42%) Software Engineer
3 49 (22.58%) Lead
4 44 (20.28%) Analyst
4 44 (20.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 44 (20.28%) Java Developer
5 42 (19.35%) Business Analyst
5 42 (19.35%) Senior
6 37 (17.05%) Lead Developer
7 34 (15.67%) React Developer
8 32 (14.75%) Lead Software Developer
8 32 (14.75%) Lead Software Engineer
9 29 (13.36%) Senior Developer
10 26 (11.98%) Senior Java Developer
11 21 (9.68%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 20 (9.22%) UI Developer
13 17 (7.83%) Python Developer
14 16 (7.37%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 15 (6.91%) Senior React Developer
15 15 (6.91%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (31.80%) React
2 66 (30.41%) Redux
3 50 (23.04%) Node.js
4 38 (17.51%) Kafka
5 33 (15.21%) GraphQL
6 16 (7.37%) .NET
7 12 (5.53%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.69%) Vue
8 8 (3.69%) XML
9 7 (3.23%) Pandas
10 6 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.76%) HTML
10 6 (2.76%) NumPy
11 4 (1.84%) HTML5
11 4 (1.84%) Reactive Extensions
11 4 (1.84%) REST
11 4 (1.84%) RESTful
11 4 (1.84%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.38%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.38%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 72 (33.18%) Equities
2 56 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (24.88%) Derivative
4 16 (7.37%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.91%) Reference Data
6 12 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.07%) Market Risk
8 9 (4.15%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.23%) Credit Risk
9 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.30%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.91%) Linux
2 13 (5.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.02%) Agile
2 62 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 59 (27.19%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (24.42%) Investment Management
5 52 (23.96%) Portfolio Management
6 40 (18.43%) Low Latency
7 38 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (16.13%) Order Management
9 34 (15.67%) Asset Management
9 34 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 28 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 26 (11.98%) Analytics
12 25 (11.52%) AI
13 22 (10.14%) Fintech
14 21 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (8.76%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.76%) Risk Management
15 19 (8.76%) Test Automation
16 18 (8.29%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.70%) Python
2 84 (38.71%) Java
3 72 (33.18%) JavaScript
4 70 (32.26%) TypeScript
5 48 (22.12%) SQL
6 32 (14.75%) Go
7 25 (11.52%) C#
8 8 (3.69%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.38%) C++
11 2 (0.92%) Bash
11 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.60%) Degree
2 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.38%) PhD
4 1 (0.46%) ACCA
4 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.46%) CFA
4 1 (0.46%) CISA
4 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.46%) PMP
4 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.15%) QA
3 5 (2.30%) MiFID
4 4 (1.84%) IFRS
5 2 (0.92%) EMIR
5 2 (0.92%) GAAP
5 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.46%) ITGC
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 6 (2.76%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.76%) Terraform
2 4 (1.84%) Ansible
3 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.29%) Murex
2 14 (6.45%) Oracle
3 10 (4.61%) Charles River
4 7 (3.23%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.76%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.76%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.30%) Solace
7 4 (1.84%) Sybase
8 3 (1.38%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.92%) Citrix
9 2 (0.92%) Reuters
9 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.92%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.46%) Calypso
10 1 (0.46%) Databricks
10 1 (0.46%) FactSet
10 1 (0.46%) FIS
10 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.46%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.46%) TIBCO