FIX Protocol Contracts in London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 246 378
Rank change year-on-year -30 +132 -74
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 117 277 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 1.02% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.62% 3.75% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 241 189
10th Percentile £550 £550 £525
25th Percentile £625 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £775
90th Percentile £1,250 £835 £800
England median daily rate £751 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +15.46% -3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,471 7,396 12,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.06% 27.36% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 5,505 9,420
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £30.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.60
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +15 13 £698 +7.31% 6
FIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (9.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (12.82%) ION MarketView
2 12 (10.26%) ION Anvil
3 3 (2.56%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.85%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.42%) AWS
1 4 (3.42%) WhatsApp
2 3 (2.56%) Azure
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (0.85%) Contentful
3 1 (0.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.53%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (2.56%) Internet
3 2 (1.71%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) FTP
4 1 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.85%) Multicast
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) KDB
3 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.42%) MySQL
3 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) JIRA
2 11 (9.40%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.71%) Git
4 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) Gatling
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (57.26%) Finance
2 63 (53.85%) Banking
3 40 (34.19%) Investment Banking
4 22 (18.80%) Front Office
5 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (13.68%) Social Skills
7 6 (5.13%) Back Office
8 3 (2.56%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 34 (29.06%) Developer
2 24 (20.51%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Business Analyst
4 16 (13.68%) Analyst
5 15 (12.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Quantitative Developer
7 13 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 12 (10.26%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 12 (10.26%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 12 (10.26%) Lead
9 10 (8.55%) Senior
9 10 (8.55%) Technical Leader
10 8 (6.84%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.84%) Project Manager
11 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.98%) Support Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Financial Services Project Manager
12 6 (5.13%) FIX Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.82%) XML
2 7 (5.98%) HTML
2 7 (5.98%) Middleware
2 7 (5.98%) Rendezvous
3 5 (4.27%) CSS
3 5 (4.27%) pytest
4 4 (3.42%) HTML5
4 4 (3.42%) Kafka
4 4 (3.42%) Spring
4 4 (3.42%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.42%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.56%) ADO
5 3 (2.56%) Node.js
6 2 (1.71%) React
6 2 (1.71%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.85%) .NET
7 1 (0.85%) FIXML
7 1 (0.85%) Playwright
7 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (38.46%) Fixed Income
2 37 (31.62%) Derivative
3 23 (19.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.27%) Equities
7 4 (3.42%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.71%) Clustering
9 2 (1.71%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.71%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.85%) EFT
10 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (41.03%) Linux
2 40 (34.19%) Unix
3 6 (5.13%) Windows
4 4 (3.42%) CentOS
4 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.85%) Electronic Trading
2 42 (35.90%) Algorithmic Trading
3 40 (34.19%) Low Latency
4 17 (14.53%) Incident Management
5 16 (13.68%) Agile
5 16 (13.68%) Risk Management
6 15 (12.82%) Capacity Management
6 15 (12.82%) Change Management
6 15 (12.82%) High Availability
7 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (9.40%) Data Modelling
8 11 (9.40%) UML
9 8 (6.84%) E-Commerce
9 8 (6.84%) OO
9 8 (6.84%) SDLC
10 7 (5.98%) Project Management
11 6 (5.13%) Business Analysis
11 6 (5.13%) TDD
11 6 (5.13%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 5 (4.27%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (39.32%) Java
2 33 (28.21%) SQL
3 17 (14.53%) Python
4 16 (13.68%) C#
5 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.13%) Bash
7 5 (4.27%) Perl
8 4 (3.42%) C++
8 4 (3.42%) PHP
8 4 (3.42%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.85%) Clojure
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.11%) Degree
2 12 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.40%) CCNA
4 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.82%) QA
2 12 (10.26%) MiFID
3 8 (6.84%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (6.84%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.68%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.71%) Ansible
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (22.22%) ION Trading
2 17 (14.53%) Bloomberg
3 13 (11.11%) MarketAxess
3 13 (11.11%) Tradeweb
4 12 (10.26%) Cisco
5 10 (8.55%) TIBCO
6 9 (7.69%) Solace
7 7 (5.98%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.13%) BT
9 4 (3.42%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.56%) Sybase
11 2 (1.71%) Murex
11 2 (1.71%) Reuters
11 2 (1.71%) Splunk
12 1 (0.85%) Azul
12 1 (0.85%) FactSet
12 1 (0.85%) Finsemble
12 1 (0.85%) Informatica
12 1 (0.85%) Oracle
12 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow