FIX Protocol Contracts in the City of London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 138 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 +44 -48
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 13 34 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.93% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 3.27% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 9
10th Percentile £471 £533 £505
25th Percentile £503 £597 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £698 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.31% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £834 £684 £683
90th Percentile £875 £931 £855
Central London median daily rate £698 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +7.31% +8.33% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of 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 481 1,039 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.84% 28.57% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 674 1,041
10th Percentile £405 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.92% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +171.43%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +171.43%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) 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 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Back Office
5 2 (15.38%) Front Office
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
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 Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) FIX Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
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 3 (23.08%) 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 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 5 (38.46%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (38.46%) Low Latency
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (15.38%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) Coaching
4 2 (15.38%) Code Coverage
4 2 (15.38%) CQRS
4 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
4 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
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 Management
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C++
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
1 3 (23.08%) Solace
1 3 (23.08%) TIBCO
2 2 (15.38%) Murex
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) ION Trading
3 1 (7.69%) MarketAxess
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Tradeweb