Fixed Income Contract Job Trends in the North West

Fixed Income
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.054% - 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.75%
75th Percentile £938 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,188 649 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.28% 30.19% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 435 416
10th Percentile £336 £268 £299
25th Percentile £413 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £712
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 39 56
10th Percentile £19.61 £21.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.41 £26.88 £15.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £35.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.83% +40.59% -8.84%
75th Percentile £77.00 £67.50 £44.81
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.20 £62.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year +33.21% -19.76% +4.34%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in the North West

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Fixed Income.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cumbria - 2 £875 -
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) React Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior React Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior UI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Equities
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript