Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FIX Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 774 687 886
Rank change year-on-year -87 +199 -188
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 121 270 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.91% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 83 245 307
10th Percentile £54,000 £49,500 £68,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £104,375 £107,500 £110,625
90th Percentile £147,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIX Protocol is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol.

Salary trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -23 105 £85,000 -2.86% 45
England -55 105 £85,000 -4.23% 46
Work from Home -2 39 £76,250 -2.24% 11
UK excluding London - 7 - - 4
Scotland - 7 - -

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (19.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Fidessa
2 5 (4.13%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.40%) AWS
2 11 (9.09%) Azure
3 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.48%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.65%) GCP
5 2 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.83%) TCP/IP
2 17 (14.05%) DHCP
2 17 (14.05%) DNS
2 17 (14.05%) Firewall
2 17 (14.05%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.31%) FTP
4 3 (2.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.62%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.61%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.79%) Redis
4 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.83%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (11.57%) JIRA
2 10 (8.26%) Git
3 7 (5.79%) Moq
4 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (63.64%) Finance
2 62 (51.24%) Banking
3 43 (35.54%) Front Office
4 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.40%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.74%) Back Office
7 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.79%) Law
7 7 (5.79%) Private Banking
8 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (33.88%) Developer
2 35 (28.93%) Analyst
3 31 (25.62%) Support Analyst
4 30 (24.79%) Applications Support
5 24 (19.83%) Java Developer
6 20 (16.53%) Applications Support Analyst
7 18 (14.88%) Senior
8 15 (12.40%) Quantitative Developer
9 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
10 12 (9.92%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 12 (9.92%) Financial Analyst
10 12 (9.92%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 11 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 11 (9.09%) FIX Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 11 (9.09%) Systems Support Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.88%) .NET
2 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
3 16 (13.22%) CSS
4 15 (12.40%) HTML
5 12 (9.92%) ASP.NET
5 12 (9.92%) ASP.NET MVC
5 12 (9.92%) React
6 10 (8.26%) .NET Framework
7 9 (7.44%) CSS3
7 9 (7.44%) HTML5
7 9 (7.44%) jQuery
7 9 (7.44%) REST
8 7 (5.79%) Ajax
8 7 (5.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 7 (5.79%) Entity Framework
8 7 (5.79%) LINQ
8 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 6 (4.96%) Spring
10 5 (4.13%) Kafka
10 5 (4.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (17.36%) Onboarding
3 20 (16.53%) Fixed Income
4 17 (14.05%) Eurex
5 16 (13.22%) Equities
6 15 (12.40%) Hedge funds
7 11 (9.09%) Cloud Native
8 8 (6.61%) Algorithms
9 7 (5.79%) Derivative
9 7 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
10 5 (4.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
12 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (1.65%) FPGA
13 2 (1.65%) OTC Derivatives
14 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (47.93%) Linux
2 28 (23.14%) Windows
3 27 (22.31%) Unix
4 17 (14.05%) CentOS
5 12 (9.92%) Solaris
5 12 (9.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) Client Onboarding
2 31 (25.62%) ITIL
3 25 (20.66%) Incident Management
4 24 (19.83%) Electronic Trading
5 22 (18.18%) Agile
6 20 (16.53%) Fintech
7 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.88%) Algorithmic Trading
8 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
9 16 (13.22%) Low Latency
10 15 (12.40%) Workflow
11 14 (11.57%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.57%) High-Frequency Trading
12 13 (10.74%) Asset Management
12 13 (10.74%) Market Making
13 12 (9.92%) MVC
14 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (9.09%) Microservices
15 10 (8.26%) Software Testing
16 9 (7.44%) UML
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) SQL
2 48 (39.67%) Java
3 43 (35.54%) Python
4 29 (23.97%) JavaScript
5 27 (22.31%) PowerShell
6 18 (14.88%) Bash
7 17 (14.05%) Perl
7 17 (14.05%) Ruby
8 16 (13.22%) C#
9 11 (9.09%) C++
10 7 (5.79%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.31%) Clojure
12 4 (3.31%) Groovy
12 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
12 4 (3.31%) Scala
13 3 (2.48%) Go
14 2 (1.65%) Rust
14 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (19.01%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) SLA
2 6 (4.96%) MiFID
3 3 (2.48%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.65%) EMIR
4 2 (1.65%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 11 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (1.65%) Kibana
3 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Oracle
2 25 (20.66%) ION Trading
3 23 (19.01%) Bloomberg
4 21 (17.36%) Reuters
5 17 (14.05%) CQG
5 17 (14.05%) Patsystems
5 17 (14.05%) Red Hat
5 17 (14.05%) Trayport
6 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
7 8 (6.61%) Algorithmics
7 8 (6.61%) IBM
8 5 (4.13%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (3.31%) Solace
10 3 (2.48%) Murex
11 2 (1.65%) MarketAxess
11 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
11 2 (1.65%) Sybase
11 2 (1.65%) Tradeweb
12 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.83%) SAP