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 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 243 249
Rank change year-on-year +67 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 519 513 810
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.09% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.57% 3.25% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 452 700
10th Percentile £550 £525 £538
25th Percentile £659 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £791 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £875 £838 £825
90th Percentile £888 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £788 £725 £713
% change year-on-year +8.62% +1.75% +9.62%
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 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 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £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 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +48 517 £798 +10.00% 113
North of England - 2 £650 - 3
North West - 1 £650 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
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
1 231 (44.51%) Apache
1 231 (44.51%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.93%) Confluence
3 7 (1.35%) SAS
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.89%) ION Anvil
2 14 (2.70%) ION MarketView
3 13 (2.50%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.77%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.77%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.58%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.58%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.58%) RMDS
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 321 (61.85%) AWS
2 213 (41.04%) GCP
3 158 (30.44%) dbt
4 127 (24.47%) Snowflake
5 113 (21.77%) Azure
6 11 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.96%) npm
9 3 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (42.77%) Apache Ignite
2 158 (30.44%) Apache Arrow
2 158 (30.44%) Dremio
3 150 (28.90%) Amazon Athena
4 135 (26.01%) Data Lake
5 69 (13.29%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (4.82%) KDB
7 22 (4.24%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.73%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.54%) Big Data
9 8 (1.54%) Power BI
9 8 (1.54%) Tableau
10 5 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.58%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.19%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (9.83%) Cypress.io
2 29 (5.59%) JIRA
3 21 (4.05%) Git
4 19 (3.66%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.12%) git-flow
6 6 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.96%) webpack
8 4 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.58%) JUnit
9 3 (0.58%) Mockito
10 2 (0.39%) Babel
10 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.39%) Gradle
10 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.39%) Moq
10 2 (0.39%) NUnit
10 2 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 405 (78.03%) Finance
2 401 (77.26%) Front Office
3 307 (59.15%) Banking
4 209 (40.27%) Investment Banking
5 47 (9.06%) Social Skills
6 32 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.93%) Marketing
8 9 (1.73%) Back Office
8 9 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.39%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.19%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (56.65%) Developer
2 199 (38.34%) Software Engineer
3 156 (30.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 132 (25.43%) Python Engineer
4 132 (25.43%) Python Software Engineer
5 123 (23.70%) Python Developer
6 97 (18.69%) React Developer
7 96 (18.50%) Senior
8 71 (13.68%) Lead
9 67 (12.91%) Analyst
10 63 (12.14%) Java Developer
11 59 (11.37%) AWS Engineer
11 59 (11.37%) AWS Software Engineer
12 57 (10.98%) Business Analyst
12 57 (10.98%) Finance Manager
13 51 (9.83%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (9.25%) Java Engineer
14 48 (9.25%) Java Software Engineer
15 44 (8.48%) Full Stack Developer
16 41 (7.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (44.32%) gRPC
1 230 (44.32%) Protocol Buffers
2 178 (34.30%) React
3 155 (29.87%) Pandas
4 148 (28.52%) NumPy
4 148 (28.52%) SciPy
5 126 (24.28%) Redux
6 88 (16.96%) Material-UI
7 45 (8.67%) .NET
8 39 (7.51%) AngularJS
8 39 (7.51%) FIX Protocol
9 35 (6.74%) Node.js
10 27 (5.20%) CSS
11 26 (5.01%) .NET Core
12 22 (4.24%) WPF
13 20 (3.85%) Vue
14 18 (3.47%) WebSockets
15 17 (3.28%) HTML
16 14 (2.70%) Sass
17 13 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 286 (55.11%) Hedge funds
2 281 (54.14%) Equities
3 265 (51.06%) Derivative
4 241 (46.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 43 (8.29%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.62%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (3.08%) Pricing Data
9 14 (2.70%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.96%) Credit Derivative
12 5 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.58%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.58%) Wiki
15 2 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.78%) Unix
2 27 (5.20%) Linux
3 9 (1.73%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (67.05%) Agile
2 324 (62.43%) Asset Management
3 286 (55.11%) Software Engineering
4 265 (51.06%) Investment Management
5 108 (20.81%) Full Stack Development
6 94 (18.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 94 (18.11%) Machine Learning
7 91 (17.53%) Electronic Trading
8 77 (14.84%) Analytics
9 70 (13.49%) Automated Trading
10 68 (13.10%) Line Management
11 57 (10.98%) Fintech
12 49 (9.44%) TDD
13 43 (8.29%) Greeks
14 35 (6.74%) Computer Science
14 35 (6.74%) User Experience
15 32 (6.17%) DevOps
16 31 (5.97%) Front End Development
17 27 (5.20%) Roadmaps
18 26 (5.01%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 320 (61.66%) Python
2 277 (53.37%) TypeScript
3 231 (44.51%) Java
4 225 (43.35%) JavaScript
5 113 (21.77%) SQL
6 80 (15.41%) C#
7 12 (2.31%) C++
7 12 (2.31%) R
8 9 (1.73%) Scala
9 8 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.16%) Ruby
10 6 (1.16%) VBA
11 5 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.77%) Perl
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (7.51%) Degree
2 16 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.12%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.39%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.78%) QA
3 8 (1.54%) MiFID
4 4 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.77%) EMIR
5 2 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 7 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.77%) Control-M
3 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (12.72%) Google
2 49 (9.44%) Bloomberg
3 42 (8.09%) ION Trading
4 12 (2.31%) BISAM
5 9 (1.73%) MarketAxess
5 9 (1.73%) Oracle
5 9 (1.73%) Tradeweb
6 8 (1.54%) Reuters
7 7 (1.35%) Murex
8 4 (0.77%) Solace
9 2 (0.39%) Charles River
9 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.39%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.19%) HP
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.19%) SimCorp