Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for FIX Protocol skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

 Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank197179214
Rank change year-on-year
Down-18Up+35
Matching permanent IT job ads10359124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London0.883 %0.715 %0.646 %
As % of the Application Development category2.421 %2.115 %2.065 %
Salaries quoted685294
Average salary£56,250£51,250£60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-14.58 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£42,750£42,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£65,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£65,000£45,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+44.44 %-
City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
425427896006
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London36.46 %33.81 %31.28 %
Salaries quoted385824025130
Average salary£47,500£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,000£32,500£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
FIX Protocol LondonFIX Protocol
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FIX Protocol
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London FIX Protocol Demand Trend

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the City of London region.

City of London FIX Protocol Salary Trend

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London FIX Protocol Salary Histogram

FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol.

1131 (60.65 %)UNIX
2130 (60.19 %)Finance
380 (37.04 %)Equities
479 (36.57 %)Windows
479 (36.57 %)C++
572 (33.33 %)Java
670 (32.41 %)Algorithmic Trading
765 (30.09 %)SQL
857 (26.39 %)Education
947 (21.76 %)Linux
1046 (21.30 %)Perl
1143 (19.91 %)Front Office
1241 (18.98 %)Banking
1338 (17.59 %)C#
1338 (17.59 %)Microsoft
1437 (17.13 %)Sybase
1533 (15.28 %)Oracle
1632 (14.81 %)Reuters
1728 (12.96 %)Electronic Trading
1728 (12.96 %)Degree
1827 (12.50 %)Bloomberg
1827 (12.50 %)VBA
1923 (10.65 %)Management Information System
1923 (10.65 %)Fidessa
2022 (10.19 %)Solaris
2121 (9.722 %)STL
2121 (9.722 %)Investment Banking
2219 (8.796 %)Derivative
2219 (8.796 %)Multithreading
2219 (8.796 %)Computer Science

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (9.722 %)STL
218 (8.333 %)XML
218 (8.333 %).NET
315 (6.944 %)J2EE
414 (6.481 %)CORBA
414 (6.481 %)JMX
414 (6.481 %)Spring
510 (4.630 %)Middleware
64 (1.852 %)HTML
73 (1.389 %)XSL
73 (1.389 %)CSS
82 (0.926 %)JMS
91 (0.463 %)XML Schema
91 (0.463 %)CGI
91 (0.463 %)JDBC
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (2.315 %)Rendezvous
24 (1.852 %)AquaLogic
24 (1.852 %)WebLogic
24 (1.852 %)Apache
24 (1.852 %)MQSeries
24 (1.852 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
31 (0.463 %)TIBCO EMS
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (1.852 %)MS Office
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (3.704 %)Capstone
21 (0.463 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
117 (7.870 %)LAN
117 (7.870 %)WAN
117 (7.870 %)VPN
28 (3.704 %)TCP/IP
31 (0.463 %)DNS
31 (0.463 %)Firewall
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
119 (8.796 %)SQL Server
27 (3.241 %)Datawarehouse
36 (2.778 %)RDBMS
44 (1.852 %)MySQL
53 (1.389 %)SQL Server 2000
53 (1.389 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.463 %)Oracle 9i
61 (0.463 %)Oracle 10g
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
114 (6.481 %)Ant
114 (6.481 %)Maven
24 (1.852 %)PROIV
31 (0.463 %)JUnit
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1130 (60.19 %)Finance
257 (26.39 %)Education
343 (19.91 %)Front Office
441 (18.98 %)Banking
521 (9.722 %)Investment Banking
613 (6.019 %)Back Office
74 (1.852 %)Telecoms
74 (1.852 %)Financial Institution
74 (1.852 %)Private Banking
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
177 (35.65 %)Analyst
275 (34.72 %)Developer
342 (19.44 %)Support Analyst
431 (14.35 %)FIX Analyst
526 (12.04 %)C++ Developer
625 (11.57 %)Java Developer
625 (11.57 %)Senior Developer
718 (8.333 %)Applications Support
815 (6.944 %)C# Developer
815 (6.944 %)Applications Support Analyst
815 (6.944 %)Senior Java Developer
910 (4.630 %)Software Engineer
109 (4.167 %).NET Developer
117 (3.241 %)Analyst Developer
117 (3.241 %)Team Leader
126 (2.778 %)Graduate
126 (2.778 %)C++/C# Developer
135 (2.315 %)C++/Java Developer
135 (2.315 %)Portfolio Manager
135 (2.315 %)Compliance Manager
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
180 (37.04 %)Equities
223 (10.65 %)Management Information System
319 (8.796 %)Derivative
319 (8.796 %)Computer Science
319 (8.796 %)Multithreading
416 (7.407 %)Mathematics
416 (7.407 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
514 (6.481 %)Spread Betting
613 (6.019 %)Client/Server
711 (5.093 %)Statistics
86 (2.778 %)Mandarin Language
86 (2.778 %)Equity Derivative
95 (2.315 %)Fixed Income
103 (1.389 %)Economics
103 (1.389 %)French Language
103 (1.389 %)Physics
112 (0.926 %)Chemistry
121 (0.463 %)Market Risk
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1131 (60.65 %)UNIX
279 (36.57 %)Windows
347 (21.76 %)Linux
422 (10.19 %)Solaris
518 (8.333 %)Windows Vista
617 (7.870 %)Windows XP
74 (1.852 %)OpenVMS
82 (0.926 %)AIX
91 (0.463 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.463 %)VMS
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
170 (32.41 %)Algorithmic Trading
228 (12.96 %)Electronic Trading
316 (7.407 %)UML
413 (6.019 %)Asset Management
413 (6.019 %)Software Architecture
511 (5.093 %)OO
68 (3.704 %)Investment Management
75 (2.315 %)OOD
75 (2.315 %)Programme Management
75 (2.315 %)Web Development
83 (1.389 %)User Acceptance Testing
83 (1.389 %)Data Analysis
83 (1.389 %)Business Analysis
92 (0.926 %)Risk Management
92 (0.926 %)OOP
92 (0.926 %)OOA/OOD
101 (0.463 %)E-Commerce
101 (0.463 %)Test-First Development
101 (0.463 %)Business Intelligence
101 (0.463 %)Project Management
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
179 (36.57 %)C++
272 (33.33 %)Java
365 (30.09 %)SQL
446 (21.30 %)Perl
538 (17.59 %)C#
627 (12.50 %)VBA
716 (7.407 %)VB
810 (4.630 %)C
99 (4.167 %)Shell Script
107 (3.241 %)Korn
107 (3.241 %)Python
107 (3.241 %)VB.NET
114 (1.852 %)VC++
123 (1.389 %)AWK
123 (1.389 %)JavaScript
132 (0.926 %)PL/SQL
132 (0.926 %)Bash shell
141 (0.463 %)Bourne shell
141 (0.463 %)Ruby
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
128 (12.96 %)Degree
23 (1.389 %)PhD
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
117 (7.870 %)QA
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
114 (6.481 %)MOM
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
138 (17.59 %)Microsoft
237 (17.13 %)Sybase
333 (15.28 %)Oracle
432 (14.81 %)Reuters
527 (12.50 %)Bloomberg
623 (10.65 %)Fidessa
714 (6.481 %)Terracotta
89 (4.167 %)TIBCO
98 (3.704 %)Triple Point
98 (3.704 %)Murex
98 (3.704 %)Calypso
104 (1.852 %)IBM
104 (1.852 %)Charles River
104 (1.852 %)SimCorp
113 (1.389 %)LatentZero
122 (0.926 %)Radianz
131 (0.463 %)Informatica
131 (0.463 %)GL TRADE
131 (0.463 %)Portware
131 (0.463 %)Wall Street Systems