Fixed Income Contracts in England

Fixed Income
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fixed Income over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 266 268
Rank change year-on-year +59 +2 -28
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 425 511 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.00% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.69% 2.98% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 430 631
10th Percentile £550 £548 £538
25th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £800
90th Percentile £900 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50

All Generic Skills
England

Fixed Income is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,505 17,152 24,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.91% 33.67% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,517 11,896 17,190
10th Percentile £263 £312 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 615 646
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -16.67% +3.85%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in England

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 23 April 2024. 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 +46 425 £750 +3.45% 127
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (30.12%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (27.76%) Apache
3 16 (3.76%) Confluence
4 5 (1.18%) SAS
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (4.47%) ION MarketView
2 15 (3.53%) ION Anvil
3 11 (2.59%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.41%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.71%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.24%) Actimize
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 224 (52.71%) AWS
2 165 (38.82%) GCP
3 106 (24.94%) Azure
4 74 (17.41%) dbt
5 56 (13.18%) Snowflake
6 8 (1.88%) npm
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.47%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.29%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (27.53%) Apache Ignite
2 74 (17.41%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (17.41%) Apache Arrow
2 74 (17.41%) Dremio
3 56 (13.18%) Data Lake
4 45 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 19 (4.47%) KDB
7 7 (1.65%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.71%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.47%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (8.71%) JIRA
2 30 (7.06%) Cypress.io
3 24 (5.65%) TeamCity
4 18 (4.24%) Git
5 9 (2.12%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.88%) webpack
7 7 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.41%) git-flow
9 4 (0.94%) JUnit
9 4 (0.94%) Mockito
9 4 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.47%) Babel
11 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.47%) Moq
11 2 (0.47%) NUnit
11 2 (0.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 311 (73.18%) Finance
2 301 (70.82%) Front Office
3 222 (52.24%) Banking
4 146 (34.35%) Investment Banking
5 59 (13.88%) Social Skills
6 40 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.76%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.18%) Marketing
9 4 (0.94%) Back Office
9 4 (0.94%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.71%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.24%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.24%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 256 (60.24%) Developer
2 133 (31.29%) Software Engineer
3 118 (27.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 90 (21.18%) Python Developer
5 75 (17.65%) Python Engineer
5 75 (17.65%) Python Software Engineer
6 74 (17.41%) React Developer
7 60 (14.12%) Finance Manager
8 57 (13.41%) Senior
9 55 (12.94%) Analyst
9 55 (12.94%) Business Analyst
10 54 (12.71%) Java Developer
11 47 (11.06%) Lead
12 37 (8.71%) Full Stack Developer
13 36 (8.47%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 34 (8.00%) .NET Developer
14 34 (8.00%) C# Developer
14 34 (8.00%) Quantitative Developer
15 32 (7.53%) Full Stack Engineer
15 32 (7.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (34.82%) React
2 127 (29.88%) gRPC
2 127 (29.88%) Protocol Buffers
3 101 (23.76%) Redux
4 80 (18.82%) Pandas
5 71 (16.71%) NumPy
5 71 (16.71%) SciPy
6 67 (15.76%) Material-UI
7 47 (11.06%) .NET
8 46 (10.82%) FIX Protocol
9 39 (9.18%) AngularJS
10 31 (7.29%) Node.js
11 27 (6.35%) .NET Core
12 24 (5.65%) CSS
12 24 (5.65%) Vue
13 20 (4.71%) WPF
14 18 (4.24%) WebSockets
15 17 (4.00%) ASP.NET
16 15 (3.53%) HTML
17 14 (3.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (48.00%) Derivative
2 196 (46.12%) Equities
3 181 (42.59%) Hedge funds
4 164 (38.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (7.29%) Product Ownership
6 20 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (4.24%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.35%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.88%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.41%) Wiki
13 4 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.71%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.71%) Unix
2 26 (6.12%) Linux
3 13 (3.06%) Windows
4 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (61.18%) Agile
2 220 (51.76%) Asset Management
3 203 (47.76%) Software Engineering
4 193 (45.41%) Investment Management
5 91 (21.41%) Electronic Trading
6 87 (20.47%) Full Stack Development
7 66 (15.53%) Analytics
7 66 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 66 (15.53%) Machine Learning
8 57 (13.41%) Fintech
9 51 (12.00%) TDD
10 43 (10.12%) Automated Trading
11 42 (9.88%) DevOps
12 32 (7.53%) Line Management
13 31 (7.29%) Front End Development
14 27 (6.35%) User Experience
15 26 (6.12%) Computer Science
15 26 (6.12%) Roadmaps
16 25 (5.88%) CI/CD
16 25 (5.88%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 206 (48.47%) Python
2 186 (43.76%) TypeScript
3 161 (37.88%) Java
4 159 (37.41%) JavaScript
5 90 (21.18%) C#
5 90 (21.18%) SQL
6 18 (4.24%) R
7 13 (3.06%) C++
8 11 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.12%) VBA
10 7 (1.65%) Scala
10 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.41%) Perl
11 6 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (9.88%) Degree
2 14 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.06%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.94%) APMP
6 2 (0.47%) CIMA
7 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.88%) QA
2 22 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.06%) MiFID
4 9 (2.12%) EMIR
5 8 (1.88%) Dodd-Frank
6 6 (1.41%) PMO
7 2 (0.47%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (1.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.47%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 44 (10.35%) Bloomberg
2 43 (10.12%) Google
3 41 (9.65%) ION Trading
4 14 (3.29%) Tradeweb
5 13 (3.06%) MarketAxess
6 10 (2.35%) BISAM
6 10 (2.35%) Oracle
7 7 (1.65%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.18%) Murex
9 4 (0.94%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.47%) Charles River
10 2 (0.47%) Reuters
10 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.47%) Solace
11 1 (0.24%) HP
11 1 (0.24%) SimCorp