FIX Protocol Contracts in Central London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for FIX Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 148 188
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -36
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 13 35 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 0.93% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 3.37% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 7
10th Percentile £468 £535 -
25th Percentile £475 £606 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £838 £706 £666
90th Percentile £875 £800 £780
London median daily rate £751 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +15.46% -3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 540 1,039 1,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.28% 27.48% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 679 1,116
10th Percentile £413 £423 £423
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.04
% change year-on-year -40.52% +39.99% -3.92%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in Central London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in Central London.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in Central London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in Central London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in Central London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in Central London

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +21 13 £745 +14.62% 6
FIX Protocol
London

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Mart
1 2 (15.38%) KDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Front Office
5 2 (15.38%) Back Office
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Market Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) pytest
2 2 (15.38%) Rendezvous
2 2 (15.38%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (30.77%) Derivative
3 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Low Latency
2 4 (30.77%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (15.38%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) Coaching
4 2 (15.38%) CQRS
4 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
4 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Epics
4 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 2 (15.38%) Product Management
4 2 (15.38%) Product Vision
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
2 3 (23.08%) Solace
2 3 (23.08%) TIBCO
3 2 (15.38%) Murex
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) ION Trading
4 1 (7.69%) MarketAxess
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Tradeweb