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 London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 17 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 London region.

 Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank282323362
Rank change year-on-year
Up+41Up+39
Matching permanent IT job ads215142347
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London0.555 %0.446 %0.414 %
As % of the Application Development category1.529 %1.312 %1.257 %
Salaries quoted158109264
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£45,000£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£65,000£45,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+44.44 %-
London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
140641082527601
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London36.28 %34.01 %32.94 %
Salaries quoted12002907323490
Average salary£47,000£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.440 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
FIX Protocol EnglandFIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London FIX Protocol Salary Trend

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the London region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of LondonDown-4100£55,000+7.31 %
Docklands, LondonUp+1411£65,000-1.88 %
FIX Protocol EnglandFIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the 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.

1229 (53.63 %)UNIX
2222 (51.99 %)Finance
3156 (36.53 %)SQL
4141 (33.02 %)Equities
5138 (32.32 %)Java
6133 (31.15 %)C++
7126 (29.51 %)Windows
8112 (26.23 %)Perl
9101 (23.65 %)Linux
10100 (23.42 %)Front Office
1192 (21.55 %)Banking
1288 (20.61 %)Algorithmic Trading
1367 (15.69 %)Derivative
1466 (15.46 %)Sybase
1560 (14.05 %)Electronic Trading
1659 (13.82 %)Education
1756 (13.11 %)C#
1855 (12.88 %)Oracle
1952 (12.18 %)Microsoft
2047 (11.01 %)Reuters
2146 (10.77 %)Fidessa
2244 (10.30 %)Degree
2342 (9.836 %)XML
2441 (9.602 %)Investment Banking
2539 (9.133 %)OO
2638 (8.899 %)VBA
2737 (8.665 %).NET
2836 (8.431 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2935 (8.197 %)SQL Server
3034 (7.963 %)Bloomberg

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
142 (9.836 %)XML
237 (8.665 %).NET
331 (7.260 %)J2EE
426 (6.089 %)Middleware
426 (6.089 %)Spring
521 (4.918 %)STL
618 (4.215 %)HTML
715 (3.513 %)CORBA
813 (3.044 %)JMX
911 (2.576 %)J2SE
107 (1.639 %)CGI
115 (1.171 %)WebSphere
124 (0.937 %)CSS
124 (0.937 %)XSL
132 (0.468 %)Java EE
132 (0.468 %)JMS
141 (0.234 %)XML Schema
141 (0.234 %)JDBC
141 (0.234 %)JSP
141 (0.234 %)SOAP
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (1.639 %)Rendezvous
24 (0.937 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
24 (0.937 %)AquaLogic
24 (0.937 %)WebLogic
24 (0.937 %)Apache
24 (0.937 %)MQSeries
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
115 (3.513 %)MS Office
21 (0.234 %)MS Excel
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (1.874 %)Capstone
23 (0.703 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
23 (0.703 %)GL Clearvision
31 (0.234 %)3000 Xtra
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (5.152 %)LAN
122 (5.152 %)WAN
219 (4.450 %)VPN
318 (4.215 %)TCP/IP
45 (1.171 %)SAN
54 (0.937 %)Firewall
62 (0.468 %)VLAN
62 (0.468 %)DNS
71 (0.234 %)Extranet
71 (0.234 %)SSH
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
135 (8.197 %)SQL Server
28 (1.874 %)Datawarehouse
36 (1.405 %)RDBMS
45 (1.171 %)MySQL
53 (0.703 %)Crystal Reports
53 (0.703 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (0.234 %)Oracle 9i
61 (0.234 %)Data Mining
61 (0.234 %)Oracle 10g
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
125 (5.855 %)Maven
125 (5.855 %)Ant
25 (1.171 %)PROIV
32 (0.468 %)JUnit
41 (0.234 %)JIRA
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1222 (51.99 %)Finance
2100 (23.42 %)Front Office
392 (21.55 %)Banking
459 (13.82 %)Education
541 (9.602 %)Investment Banking
627 (6.323 %)Back Office
713 (3.044 %)Private Banking
812 (2.810 %)Financial Institution
94 (0.937 %)Telecoms
103 (0.703 %)Pensions
112 (0.468 %)Retail
121 (0.234 %)Publishing
121 (0.234 %)Construction
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1152 (35.60 %)Analyst
2115 (26.93 %)Developer
387 (20.37 %)Support Analyst
454 (12.65 %)FIX Analyst
547 (11.01 %)Applications Support
634 (7.963 %)Java Developer
732 (7.494 %)Senior Developer
830 (7.026 %)C++ Developer
929 (6.792 %)Applications Support Analyst
1023 (5.386 %)C# Developer
1119 (4.450 %)Senior Java Developer
1210 (2.342 %)Team Leader
1210 (2.342 %)Software Engineer
1210 (2.342 %)Business Analyst
139 (2.108 %).NET Developer
148 (1.874 %)UNIX Engineer
148 (1.874 %)Java Team Leader
148 (1.874 %)Analyst Developer
148 (1.874 %)Senior Analyst
157 (1.639 %)UNIX Team Leader
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1141 (33.02 %)Equities
267 (15.69 %)Derivative
336 (8.431 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
430 (7.026 %)Equity Derivative
529 (6.792 %)Multithreading
626 (6.089 %)Computer Science
724 (5.621 %)Management Information System
820 (4.684 %)Mathematics
916 (3.747 %)Client/Server
1013 (3.044 %)Spread Betting
1111 (2.576 %)Statistics
128 (1.874 %)Fixed Income
137 (1.639 %)Physics
146 (1.405 %)Mandarin Language
155 (1.171 %)iSeries
164 (0.937 %)French Language
173 (0.703 %)Economics
182 (0.468 %)Grid Computing
182 (0.468 %)Equity Risk
182 (0.468 %)Chemistry
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1229 (53.63 %)UNIX
2126 (29.51 %)Windows
3101 (23.65 %)Linux
429 (6.792 %)Solaris
524 (5.621 %)Windows XP
620 (4.684 %)Windows Vista
77 (1.639 %)Windows 2000
85 (1.171 %)OpenVMS
85 (1.171 %)i5/OS
94 (0.937 %)Red Hat Linux
94 (0.937 %)AIX
103 (0.703 %)Windows Server 2003
112 (0.468 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
112 (0.468 %)SUSE
121 (0.234 %)VMS
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
188 (20.61 %)Algorithmic Trading
260 (14.05 %)Electronic Trading
339 (9.133 %)OO
425 (5.855 %)Asset Management
522 (5.152 %)Investment Management
620 (4.684 %)Project Management
715 (3.513 %)UML
813 (3.044 %)Software Architecture
910 (2.342 %)Risk Management
109 (2.108 %)Data Analysis
118 (1.874 %)Business Analysis
127 (1.639 %)Web Development
136 (1.405 %)Incident Management
136 (1.405 %)E-Commerce
136 (1.405 %)OOD
145 (1.171 %)User Acceptance Testing
145 (1.171 %)Programme Management
145 (1.171 %)Agile Software Development
153 (0.703 %)Problem Management
153 (0.703 %)Release Management
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1156 (36.53 %)SQL
2138 (32.32 %)Java
3133 (31.15 %)C++
4112 (26.23 %)Perl
556 (13.11 %)C#
638 (8.899 %)VBA
731 (7.260 %)VB
824 (5.621 %)Korn
923 (5.386 %)Shell Script
1021 (4.918 %)Python
1120 (4.684 %)C
1219 (4.450 %)VB.NET
1311 (2.576 %)PL/SQL
148 (1.874 %)Bash shell
156 (1.405 %)AWK
156 (1.405 %)VC++
165 (1.171 %)COBOL
165 (1.171 %)PHP
165 (1.171 %)JavaScript
174 (0.937 %)Ruby
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
144 (10.30 %)Degree
23 (0.703 %)PhD
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
129 (6.792 %)QA
22 (0.468 %)SLA
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.703 %)NFS
21 (0.234 %)Oracle RAC
21 (0.234 %)SRDF
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (3.513 %)MOM
21 (0.234 %)CONTROL-M
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
166 (15.46 %)Sybase
255 (12.88 %)Oracle
352 (12.18 %)Microsoft
447 (11.01 %)Reuters
546 (10.77 %)Fidessa
634 (7.963 %)Bloomberg
719 (4.450 %)GL TRADE
817 (3.981 %)TIBCO
915 (3.513 %)Terracotta
1012 (2.810 %)IBM
1111 (2.576 %)Murex
1210 (2.342 %)Charles River
138 (1.874 %)Calypso
138 (1.874 %)Triple Point
145 (1.171 %)HP
145 (1.171 %)SimCorp
154 (0.937 %)LatentZero
154 (0.937 %)Patsystems
154 (0.937 %)EccoWare
154 (0.937 %)NYFIX