FIX Protocol Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for FIX Protocol skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Rank 484 495 444
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -51
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 56 86 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.119% 0.147% 0.226%
As % of the Application Development category 0.434% 0.575% 0.824%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 51 102
Average daily rate £425 £450 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £350 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £550 £673
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

FIX Protocol
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

FIX Protocol Jobs Demand Trend

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK.

FIX Protocol Daily Rate Trend

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

FIX Protocol Daily Rate Histogram

FIX Protocol
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK.

FIX Protocol Hourly Rate Trend

FIX Protocol
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +12 53 £419 -6.94%
London -21 49 £425 -5.55%
City of London +12 24 £475 +18.75%
Docklands, London +3 3 £500 +42.85%
Glasgow - 3 £425 -
Birmingham - 3 £400 -
West Midlands - 3 £400 -
Scotland - 3 £425 -
Canary Wharf -6 1 £400 -
South East - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -

FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing FIX Protocol also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol.

1 45 (54.22%) UNIX
2 42 (50.60%) Finance
3 35 (42.17%) Banking
4 33 (39.76%) SQL
5 26 (31.33%) Perl
6 25 (30.12%) Derivative
7 24 (28.92%) Java
8 23 (27.71%) Linux
8 23 (27.71%) Equities
9 22 (26.51%) Front Office
10 19 (22.89%) Investment Banking
11 18 (21.69%) QA
12 17 (20.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (16.87%) Shell Script
13 14 (16.87%) Financial Institution
13 14 (16.87%) Electronic Trading
14 10 (12.05%) Multithreading
15 9 (10.84%) Automated Testing
16 8 (9.639%) Python
16 8 (9.639%) XML
17 7 (8.434%) C++
17 7 (8.434%) JIRA
17 7 (8.434%) Algorithmic Trading
18 6 (7.229%) Confluence
18 6 (7.229%) Agile Software Development
18 6 (7.229%) Back Office
18 6 (7.229%) C#
19 5 (6.024%) E-Commerce
19 5 (6.024%) Windows
19 5 (6.024%) QuickTest Pro

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing FIX Protocol also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (9.639%) XML
2 4 (4.819%) Middleware
3 3 (3.614%) XSLT
3 3 (3.614%) .NET
4 2 (2.410%) WCF
4 2 (2.410%) REST
4 2 (2.410%) SOAP
4 2 (2.410%) Web Services
5 1 (1.205%) JMS
5 1 (1.205%) FIXML
5 1 (1.205%) FpML
5 1 (1.205%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.205%) Spring
5 1 (1.205%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.229%) Confluence
2 1 (1.205%) Rendezvous
2 1 (1.205%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (1.205%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.410%) ION MarketView
1 2 (2.410%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
2 1 (1.205%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.205%) RMDS
2 1 (1.205%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.614%) CTI
2 2 (2.410%) 4G
2 2 (2.410%) Internet
2 2 (2.410%) HTTP
2 2 (2.410%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.205%) Firewall
3 1 (1.205%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (1.205%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.819%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.614%) KDB
3 1 (1.205%) DB2
3 1 (1.205%) MySQL
3 1 (1.205%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (8.434%) JIRA
2 5 (6.024%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (4.819%) WinRunner
3 4 (4.819%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.410%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.410%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.205%) JUnit
5 1 (1.205%) Subversion
5 1 (1.205%) Concordion
5 1 (1.205%) WATIR
5 1 (1.205%) Selenium
5 1 (1.205%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.205%) GDB
5 1 (1.205%) Valgrind
5 1 (1.205%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (50.60%) Finance
2 35 (42.17%) Banking
3 22 (26.51%) Front Office
4 19 (22.89%) Investment Banking
5 14 (16.87%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.229%) Back Office
7 2 (2.410%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.205%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (54.22%) Analyst
2 26 (31.33%) Support Analyst
3 14 (16.87%) Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Test Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) FIX Analyst
6 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.024%) Tester
7 5 (6.024%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.819%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.819%) Consultant
9 3 (3.614%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.614%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (3.614%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.614%) Fidessa Analyst
9 3 (3.614%) QA Consultant
10 2 (2.410%) Fidessa Business Analyst
11 1 (1.205%) Software Developer
11 1 (1.205%) Test Manager
11 1 (1.205%) Systems Administrator
11 1 (1.205%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Derivative
2 23 (27.71%) Equities
3 17 (20.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.819%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.410%) SWIFT
5 2 (2.410%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.410%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (2.410%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.205%) AS400
6 1 (1.205%) Replication
6 1 (1.205%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.205%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (54.22%) UNIX
2 23 (27.71%) Linux
3 5 (6.024%) Windows
4 3 (3.614%) Solaris
5 2 (2.410%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.205%) SUSE
6 1 (1.205%) Debian
6 1 (1.205%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.87%) Electronic Trading
2 10 (12.05%) Multithreading
3 9 (10.84%) Automated Testing
4 7 (8.434%) Algorithmic Trading
5 6 (7.229%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (6.024%) E-Commerce
6 5 (6.024%) Test Strategy
6 5 (6.024%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (4.819%) Performance Testing
7 4 (4.819%) Test Scripting
7 4 (4.819%) Regression Testing
8 3 (3.614%) Risk Management
8 3 (3.614%) TDD
8 3 (3.614%) Business Analysis
9 2 (2.410%) Analytics
9 2 (2.410%) Automation Testing
9 2 (2.410%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.410%) Web Development
9 2 (2.410%) Project Management
9 2 (2.410%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) SQL
2 26 (31.33%) Perl
3 24 (28.92%) Java
4 14 (16.87%) Shell Script
5 8 (9.639%) Python
6 7 (8.434%) C++
7 6 (7.229%) C#
8 3 (3.614%) Korn
9 1 (1.205%) C
9 1 (1.205%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.205%) Ruby
9 1 (1.205%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (4.819%) ISEB
2 1 (1.205%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) QA
2 1 (1.205%) SLA
2 1 (1.205%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.205%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.205%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.819%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.205%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.205%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.205%) Control-M
2 1 (1.205%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (6.024%) Microsoft
1 5 (6.024%) Fidessa
2 4 (4.819%) Oracle
3 3 (3.614%) TIBCO
3 3 (3.614%) ION Trading
4 2 (2.410%) 29West
4 2 (2.410%) FFastFill
4 2 (2.410%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.410%) EasyScreen
5 1 (1.205%) Sybase
5 1 (1.205%) Cisco
5 1 (1.205%) Remedy
5 1 (1.205%) Reuters
5 1 (1.205%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.205%) VMware
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