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 England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 22 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 England region.

 Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank461494617
Rank change year-on-year
Up+33Up+123
Matching permanent IT job ads225162356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England0.275 %0.201 %0.186 %
As % of the Application Development category0.747 %0.575 %0.566 %
Salaries quoted163128274
Average salary£60,000£52,500£60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£42,400£42,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£79,550£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£65,000£45,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+44.44 %-
England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
301012815662887
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England36.79 %34.99 %32.79 %
Salaries quoted263782414053956
Average salary£38,500£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.940 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
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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 England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England 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 England region.

England FIX Protocol Salary Trend

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

England FIX Protocol Salary Histogram

FIX Protocol
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+35221£60,000+11.62 %
South EastDown-54£65,000+39.78 %
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FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

1240 (55.43 %)UNIX
2225 (51.96 %)Finance
3156 (36.03 %)SQL
4150 (34.64 %)Java
5144 (33.26 %)Equities
6142 (32.79 %)C++
7130 (30.02 %)Windows
8111 (25.64 %)Linux
9109 (25.17 %)Perl
1098 (22.63 %)Front Office
1194 (21.71 %)Banking
1290 (20.79 %)Algorithmic Trading
1369 (15.94 %)Derivative
1461 (14.09 %)Sybase
1557 (13.16 %)Education
1656 (12.93 %)Electronic Trading
1753 (12.24 %)C#
1851 (11.78 %)Microsoft
1948 (11.09 %)Oracle
1948 (11.09 %)Fidessa
1948 (11.09 %)Reuters
2045 (10.39 %)XML
2144 (10.16 %)Investment Banking
2240 (9.238 %)Degree
2339 (9.007 %)OO
2437 (8.545 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2535 (8.083 %)VBA
2634 (7.852 %).NET
2733 (7.621 %)Bloomberg
2733 (7.621 %)Multithreading

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
145 (10.39 %)XML
234 (7.852 %).NET
332 (7.390 %)J2EE
332 (7.390 %)Spring
424 (5.543 %)Middleware
522 (5.081 %)STL
618 (4.157 %)HTML
618 (4.157 %)JMX
717 (3.926 %)CORBA
811 (2.540 %)J2SE
97 (1.617 %)CGI
105 (1.155 %)WebSphere
114 (0.924 %)XSL
114 (0.924 %)CSS
123 (0.693 %)Java EE
132 (0.462 %)JMS
141 (0.231 %)XML Schema
141 (0.231 %)JSP
141 (0.231 %)SOAP
141 (0.231 %)DHTML
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (1.155 %)MQSeries
15 (1.155 %)Rendezvous
24 (0.924 %)AquaLogic
24 (0.924 %)WebLogic
24 (0.924 %)Apache
24 (0.924 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
31 (0.231 %)TIBCO EMS
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
112 (2.771 %)MS Office
21 (0.231 %)MS Excel
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (1.848 %)Capstone
23 (0.693 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
23 (0.693 %)GL Clearvision
31 (0.231 %)3000 Xtra
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (4.850 %)LAN
121 (4.850 %)WAN
218 (4.157 %)VPN
317 (3.926 %)TCP/IP
45 (1.155 %)SAN
54 (0.924 %)Firewall
62 (0.462 %)DNS
62 (0.462 %)VLAN
71 (0.231 %)SSH
71 (0.231 %)Extranet
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
131 (7.159 %)SQL Server
27 (1.617 %)Datawarehouse
36 (1.386 %)RDBMS
44 (0.924 %)MySQL
53 (0.693 %)SQL Server 2000
53 (0.693 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.231 %)Oracle 9i
61 (0.231 %)Data Mining
61 (0.231 %)Oracle 10g
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (7.159 %)Ant
227 (6.236 %)Maven
35 (1.155 %)PROIV
44 (0.924 %)JUnit
51 (0.231 %)JIRA
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1225 (51.96 %)Finance
298 (22.63 %)Front Office
394 (21.71 %)Banking
457 (13.16 %)Education
544 (10.16 %)Investment Banking
624 (5.543 %)Back Office
712 (2.771 %)Private Banking
811 (2.540 %)Financial Institution
94 (0.924 %)Telecoms
94 (0.924 %)Pensions
102 (0.462 %)Retail
111 (0.231 %)Construction
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1152 (35.10 %)Analyst
2124 (28.64 %)Developer
389 (20.55 %)Support Analyst
455 (12.70 %)FIX Analyst
547 (10.85 %)Applications Support
640 (9.238 %)Java Developer
735 (8.083 %)C++ Developer
834 (7.852 %)Senior Developer
929 (6.697 %)Applications Support Analyst
1022 (5.081 %)C# Developer
1121 (4.850 %)Senior Java Developer
1212 (2.771 %)Software Engineer
1310 (2.309 %)Business Analyst
149 (2.079 %)Team Leader
149 (2.079 %).NET Developer
158 (1.848 %)Analyst Developer
158 (1.848 %)Senior Analyst
167 (1.617 %)Technical Specialist
167 (1.617 %)UNIX Engineer
167 (1.617 %)Developer Analyst
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1144 (33.26 %)Equities
269 (15.94 %)Derivative
337 (8.545 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
433 (7.621 %)Multithreading
531 (7.159 %)Equity Derivative
624 (5.543 %)Management Information System
720 (4.619 %)Mathematics
720 (4.619 %)Computer Science
816 (3.695 %)Client/Server
914 (3.233 %)Spread Betting
1011 (2.540 %)Statistics
119 (2.079 %)Fixed Income
127 (1.617 %)Physics
136 (1.386 %)Mandarin Language
145 (1.155 %)iSeries
154 (0.924 %)French Language
163 (0.693 %)Grid Computing
172 (0.462 %)Replication
172 (0.462 %)Economics
172 (0.462 %)Chemistry
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1240 (55.43 %)UNIX
2130 (30.02 %)Windows
3111 (25.64 %)Linux
431 (7.159 %)Solaris
523 (5.312 %)Windows XP
618 (4.157 %)Windows Vista
77 (1.617 %)Windows 2000
85 (1.155 %)OpenVMS
85 (1.155 %)i5/OS
94 (0.924 %)Red Hat Linux
94 (0.924 %)AIX
103 (0.693 %)Windows Server 2003
112 (0.462 %)SUSE
112 (0.462 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
121 (0.231 %)VMS
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
190 (20.79 %)Algorithmic Trading
256 (12.93 %)Electronic Trading
339 (9.007 %)OO
424 (5.543 %)Asset Management
521 (4.850 %)Investment Management
618 (4.157 %)Project Management
716 (3.695 %)UML
813 (3.002 %)Software Architecture
910 (2.309 %)Risk Management
109 (2.079 %)Data Analysis
118 (1.848 %)Business Analysis
126 (1.386 %)Incident Management
126 (1.386 %)Web Development
126 (1.386 %)OOD
135 (1.155 %)E-Commerce
135 (1.155 %)Programme Management
135 (1.155 %)Agile Software Development
135 (1.155 %)User Acceptance Testing
144 (0.924 %)Continuous Integration
153 (0.693 %)Cash Management
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1156 (36.03 %)SQL
2150 (34.64 %)Java
3142 (32.79 %)C++
4109 (25.17 %)Perl
553 (12.24 %)C#
635 (8.083 %)VBA
731 (7.159 %)VB
825 (5.774 %)Shell Script
825 (5.774 %)Korn
923 (5.312 %)Python
1022 (5.081 %)C
1116 (3.695 %)VB.NET
1211 (2.540 %)PL/SQL
138 (1.848 %)Bash shell
146 (1.386 %)AWK
146 (1.386 %)VC++
155 (1.155 %)COBOL
155 (1.155 %)PHP
155 (1.155 %)JavaScript
163 (0.693 %)Ruby
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
140 (9.238 %)Degree
23 (0.693 %)PhD
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
126 (6.005 %)QA
22 (0.462 %)SLA
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.693 %)NFS
22 (0.462 %)SRDF
31 (0.231 %)Oracle RAC
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
117 (3.926 %)MOM
21 (0.231 %)CONTROL-M
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
161 (14.09 %)Sybase
251 (11.78 %)Microsoft
348 (11.09 %)Oracle
348 (11.09 %)Fidessa
348 (11.09 %)Reuters
433 (7.621 %)Bloomberg
520 (4.619 %)GL TRADE
617 (3.926 %)Terracotta
716 (3.695 %)TIBCO
813 (3.002 %)IBM
911 (2.540 %)Murex
1010 (2.309 %)Charles River
118 (1.848 %)Triple Point
118 (1.848 %)Calypso
125 (1.155 %)HP
125 (1.155 %)SimCorp
134 (0.924 %)EccoWare
134 (0.924 %)LatentZero
134 (0.924 %)Patsystems
134 (0.924 %)NYFIX