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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 231 146
Rank change year-on-year -201 -85 +89
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 206 326 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 1.18% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 3.30% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 293 526
10th Percentile £500 £540 £550
25th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £913 £850 £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 15,309 9,886 10,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.63% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,366 6,242 6,543
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 501 506
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -34.58% +8.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% +2.66%

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 August 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 August 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 -134 192 £750 - 26
North of England -60 7 £875 -
South West - 5 £875 - 3
North East - 4 £875 -
North West - 3 £875 -
Midlands -45 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 3 (1.46%) MTS
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.43%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.94%) Summit
4 2 (0.97%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.49%) Actimize
5 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.49%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.96%) AWS
2 16 (7.77%) Azure
3 15 (7.28%) GCP
4 14 (6.80%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.85%) Serverless
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.91%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.94%) Datadog
10 3 (1.46%) GitHub
10 3 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.91%) Multicast
2 4 (1.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.49%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.88%) Metadata
3 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.91%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.91%) Power BI
5 5 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.94%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.94%) Tableau
7 3 (1.46%) KDB
7 3 (1.46%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (5.83%) JIRA
2 8 (3.88%) Git
3 7 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.43%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.43%) ERwin
4 5 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.94%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.97%) JMeter
6 2 (0.97%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.97%) Maven
6 2 (0.97%) Mocha
6 2 (0.97%) MSTest
6 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.97%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.49%) Selenium
7 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.49%) Storybook
7 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 133 (64.56%) Front Office
2 127 (61.65%) Finance
3 100 (48.54%) Banking
4 69 (33.50%) Investment Banking
5 42 (20.39%) Social Skills
6 30 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.80%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.40%) Back Office
9 5 (2.43%) Law
10 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (42.23%) Developer
2 58 (28.16%) Senior
3 49 (23.79%) Java Developer
4 45 (21.84%) Senior Developer
5 38 (18.45%) Analyst
5 38 (18.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 36 (17.48%) React Developer
7 33 (16.02%) Business Analyst
8 30 (14.56%) UI Developer
9 28 (13.59%) Software Engineer
10 27 (13.11%) Senior React Developer
10 27 (13.11%) Senior UI Developer
11 24 (11.65%) Lead
12 14 (6.80%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 13 (6.31%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 12 (5.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 11 (5.34%) Lead Developer
16 10 (4.85%) Technical Business Analyst
17 8 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
17 8 (3.88%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.64%) React
2 53 (25.73%) Redux
3 20 (9.71%) Node.js
4 16 (7.77%) .NET
5 13 (6.31%) Kafka
6 11 (5.34%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (4.37%) GraphQL
8 7 (3.40%) OpenFin
9 6 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.91%) Middleware
9 6 (2.91%) PySpark
10 5 (2.43%) NumPy
10 5 (2.43%) Pandas
10 5 (2.43%) REST
10 5 (2.43%) Terraform
11 4 (1.94%) CSS
11 4 (1.94%) Flask
11 4 (1.94%) HTML
11 4 (1.94%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (37.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 73 (35.44%) Equities
3 53 (25.73%) Derivative
4 30 (14.56%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.80%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.34%) Reference Data
7 9 (4.37%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.88%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.91%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.43%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.94%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.94%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.14%) Linux
2 20 (9.71%) Unix
3 4 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.01%) Electronic Trading
2 62 (30.10%) Low Latency
3 58 (28.16%) Agile
4 40 (19.42%) Software Engineering
5 36 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.02%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.08%) Asset Management
8 28 (13.59%) Investment Management
9 26 (12.62%) Analytics
10 25 (12.14%) Order Management
10 25 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (12.14%) Validation
11 23 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (10.68%) AI
13 20 (9.71%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.22%) Portfolio Management
15 18 (8.74%) Business Analysis
15 18 (8.74%) DevOps
15 18 (8.74%) Scrum
15 18 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.35%) Java
2 71 (34.47%) Python
3 58 (28.16%) TypeScript
4 57 (27.67%) JavaScript
5 51 (24.76%) SQL
6 47 (22.82%) C#
7 11 (5.34%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.88%) Go
9 6 (2.91%) C++
9 6 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.94%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) C
11 3 (1.46%) Tcl
11 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (10.19%) Degree
2 11 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.43%) PhD
4 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.43%) MiFID
2 5 (2.43%) QA
3 2 (0.97%) GAAP
3 2 (0.97%) IFRS
4 1 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.49%) EMIR
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.43%) Docker
3 2 (0.97%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 11 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.43%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (6.31%) Murex
2 12 (5.83%) Charles River
3 11 (5.34%) Tradeweb
4 10 (4.85%) Bloomberg
5 9 (4.37%) MarketAxess
5 9 (4.37%) Oracle
5 9 (4.37%) Solace
6 7 (3.40%) Sybase
7 4 (1.94%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.94%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.46%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.97%) Calypso
9 2 (0.97%) FIS
9 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.97%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.49%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.49%) Databricks
10 1 (0.49%) FactSet
10 1 (0.49%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.49%) Refinitiv