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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 207 160
Rank change year-on-year -176 -47 +90
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 248 360 564
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.32% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 3.80% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 321 534
10th Percentile £515 £550 £563
25th Percentile £663 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £863 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 - -
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 14,950 9,480 11,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.16% 34.75% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,294 6,041 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £305 £288
25th Percentile £416 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 459 795
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -14.29% +20.31%
75th Percentile £71.50 £61.12 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.68 £80.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +41.81% -15.07% +32.25%

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 12 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 12 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 -100 235 £750 - 63
North of England -74 6 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 - 7
North East - 4 £875 -
Midlands -45 2 £875 +133.33%
North West - 2 £875 -
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 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.40%) CMS
1 1 (0.40%) Confluence
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (6.85%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.42%) Summit
3 4 (1.61%) Loan IQ
4 3 (1.21%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.81%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.40%) Actimize
6 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.40%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.45%) AWS
2 36 (14.52%) GCP
3 33 (13.31%) Azure
4 13 (5.24%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.03%) Serverless
6 7 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.61%) SaaS
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.21%) Datadog
10 3 (1.21%) GitHub
11 2 (0.81%) Collibra
11 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Multicast
2 3 (1.21%) VPN
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.65%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.63%) Metadata
5 6 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.42%) Power BI
5 6 (2.42%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.02%) KDB
6 5 (2.02%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.61%) Tableau
8 2 (0.81%) Power Query
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.03%) JIRA
2 6 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.61%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.61%) ERwin
3 4 (1.61%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.21%) GitLab
4 3 (1.21%) Mocha
4 3 (1.21%) MSTest
4 3 (1.21%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.81%) JMeter
5 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) NUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Storybook
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 164 (66.13%) Finance
2 160 (64.52%) Front Office
3 103 (41.53%) Banking
4 68 (27.42%) Investment Banking
5 50 (20.16%) Social Skills
6 36 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.45%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.42%) Back Office
9 5 (2.02%) Law
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Marketing
11 2 (0.81%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 129 (52.02%) Developer
2 60 (24.19%) Software Engineer
3 59 (23.79%) Java Developer
4 54 (21.77%) Senior
5 51 (20.56%) Lead
6 48 (19.35%) Analyst
6 48 (19.35%) React Developer
7 45 (18.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 42 (16.94%) Business Analyst
8 42 (16.94%) Senior Developer
9 38 (15.32%) Lead Developer
9 38 (15.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 33 (13.31%) UI Developer
11 32 (12.90%) Lead Software Developer
11 32 (12.90%) Lead Software Engineer
12 27 (10.89%) Senior React Developer
12 27 (10.89%) Senior UI Developer
13 20 (8.06%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 16 (6.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 14 (5.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (36.29%) React
2 86 (34.68%) Redux
3 56 (22.58%) Node.js
4 39 (15.73%) Kafka
5 33 (13.31%) GraphQL
6 19 (7.66%) .NET
7 13 (5.24%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.03%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.23%) Pandas
9 8 (3.23%) Vue
10 7 (2.82%) HTML
10 7 (2.82%) NumPy
10 7 (2.82%) OpenFin
10 7 (2.82%) XML
11 5 (2.02%) CSS
11 5 (2.02%) Middleware
11 5 (2.02%) RESTful
12 4 (1.61%) HTML5
12 4 (1.61%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (35.08%) Equities
2 75 (30.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (25.00%) Derivative
4 29 (11.69%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.05%) Market Risk
6 12 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.44%) Reference Data
8 10 (4.03%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.82%) Credit Risk
10 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.02%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (2.02%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.61%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.21%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.21%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.06%) Linux
2 18 (7.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (37.50%) Agile
2 74 (29.84%) Electronic Trading
3 71 (28.63%) Software Engineering
4 63 (25.40%) Investment Management
4 63 (25.40%) Low Latency
5 56 (22.58%) Portfolio Management
6 45 (18.15%) Order Management
7 42 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (15.32%) Asset Management
10 35 (14.11%) CI/CD
11 30 (12.10%) Analytics
12 29 (11.69%) Mentoring
13 25 (10.08%) Risk Management
13 25 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.68%) AI
15 23 (9.27%) Fintech
16 21 (8.47%) Business Analysis
16 21 (8.47%) Validation
17 20 (8.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.53%) Java
1 103 (41.53%) Python
2 92 (37.10%) JavaScript
3 91 (36.69%) TypeScript
4 52 (20.97%) SQL
5 41 (16.53%) C#
6 32 (12.90%) Go
7 10 (4.03%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.61%) C++
10 3 (1.21%) Bash
10 3 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.68%) Degree
2 12 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.61%) 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 (0.40%) ACCA
5 1 (0.40%) CFA
5 1 (0.40%) CISA
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.82%) QA
3 4 (1.61%) IFRS
3 4 (1.61%) MiFID
4 2 (0.81%) GAAP
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.40%) EMIR
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.02%) Docker
3 2 (0.81%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.02%) Ansible
2 5 (2.02%) Terraform
3 3 (1.21%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (7.26%) Murex
2 13 (5.24%) Charles River
3 12 (4.84%) Oracle
4 8 (3.23%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.23%) Solace
5 6 (2.42%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.02%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.02%) Sybase
7 4 (1.61%) MarketAxess
7 4 (1.61%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.21%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.21%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.81%) Reuters
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.40%) Advent
10 1 (0.40%) Calypso
10 1 (0.40%) Citrix
10 1 (0.40%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.40%) SunGard
10 1 (0.40%) Vermilion