The first table below looks at the demand for FIX Protocol skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Rank 607 610 468
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -142
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 262 309 475
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.241% 0.252% 0.389%
As % of the Application Development category 0.595% 0.604% 0.971%
Number of salaries quoted 220 271 425
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -17.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £52,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £41,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-2.40% -20.95%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44030 51132 48922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.48% 41.69% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38280 45443 43240
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

FIX Protocol
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

FIX Protocol Salary Trend

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

FIX Protocol Salary Histogram

FIX Protocol
Top 21 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -4 262 £55,000 -4.34%
London +2 230 £55,000 -8.33%
City of London -25 79 £50,000 -2.43%
South East +25 23 £41,500 +10.66%
Berkshire +15 12 £42,000 -2.32%
Newbury +17 10 £41,250 -4.06%
Kent -15 8 £40,500 +8.00%
Canary Wharf - 7 £43,250 -
East Midlands - 6 £32,500 -
Surrey +18 3 £47,500 -5.00%
Nottinghamshire - 3 £32,500 -
Guildford - 3 £47,500 -
Derby - 3 £32,500 -
Nottingham - 3 £32,500 -
Derbyshire - 3 £32,500 -
East of England - 2 £35,000 -
Maidenhead - 2 £44,500 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £45,000 -
Essex - 1 £25,000 -
Birmingham - 1 - -

FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol.

1 267 (55.63%) UNIX
2 237 (49.38%) Finance
3 216 (45.00%) SQL
4 166 (34.58%) Linux
5 145 (30.21%) Banking
6 129 (26.88%) Equities
7 126 (26.25%) Oracle
8 119 (24.79%) Java
9 111 (23.13%) Front Office
10 109 (22.71%) Electronic Trading
11 93 (19.38%) Investment Banking
12 87 (18.13%) Degree
13 84 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 83 (17.29%) Windows
15 64 (13.33%) Perl
16 62 (12.92%) TCP/IP
17 60 (12.50%) C++
18 55 (11.46%) XML
19 53 (11.04%) Derivative
20 45 (9.375%) ITIL
21 43 (8.958%) Asset Management
22 41 (8.542%) Shell Script
23 40 (8.333%) QA
24 39 (8.125%) Big Data
24 39 (8.125%) SLA
25 38 (7.917%) Multithreading
26 37 (7.708%) Red Hat
27 36 (7.500%) SQL Server
28 35 (7.292%) Budget Control
29 33 (6.875%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FIX Protocol. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 55 (11.46%) XML
2 31 (6.458%) JMS
3 25 (5.208%) .NET
4 17 (3.542%) Swing
5 16 (3.333%) Flash
6 14 (2.917%) Middleware
7 12 (2.500%) Spring
8 10 (2.083%) ASP.NET
9 9 (1.875%) Web Services
9 9 (1.875%) XSLT
9 9 (1.875%) WCF
10 7 (1.458%) J2SE
10 7 (1.458%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 6 (1.250%) STL
12 5 (1.042%) XML Messaging
12 5 (1.042%) WPF
13 4 (0.833%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.833%) LINQ
13 4 (0.833%) jQuery
13 4 (0.833%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 19 (3.958%) SAS
2 17 (3.542%) TIBCO EMS
3 12 (2.500%) Rendezvous
4 8 (1.667%) Apache
5 7 (1.458%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.042%) IIS
7 4 (0.833%) Oracle Service Bus
7 4 (0.833%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (0.833%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.625%) GemFire
8 3 (0.625%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (0.417%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.208%) Lotus Notes
10 1 (0.208%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (4.583%) MS Excel
2 16 (3.333%) MS Office
3 10 (2.083%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (0.625%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.875%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (1.875%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.667%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.833%) RMDS
4 1 (0.208%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.92%) TCP/IP
2 23 (4.792%) iSCSI
2 23 (4.792%) Fibre Channel
3 22 (4.583%) SNMP
4 19 (3.958%) SSL
5 18 (3.750%) DNS
6 8 (1.667%) Firewall
7 5 (1.042%) SAN
7 5 (1.042%) Internet
7 5 (1.042%) HTTP
7 5 (1.042%) BGP
7 5 (1.042%) OSPF
8 4 (0.833%) SWIFTNet
8 4 (0.833%) 4G
8 4 (0.833%) WAN
9 3 (0.625%) LDAP
9 3 (0.625%) FTP
9 3 (0.625%) VPN
9 3 (0.625%) WPA
9 3 (0.625%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.125%) Big Data
2 36 (7.500%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.792%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.500%) MySQL
5 9 (1.875%) Oracle 10g
5 9 (1.875%) Oracle 9i
5 9 (1.875%) Oracle 11g
6 6 (1.250%) KDB
7 4 (0.833%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (0.833%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (0.417%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.417%) MS Access
8 2 (0.417%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (0.417%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (3.750%) JUnit
2 14 (2.917%) Maven
2 14 (2.917%) Ant
3 7 (1.458%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.250%) Subversion
4 6 (1.250%) TestDirector
5 4 (0.833%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.625%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.625%) Hudson
7 1 (0.208%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.208%) WinRunner
7 1 (0.208%) JIRA
7 1 (0.208%) Git (software)
General
1 237 (49.38%) Finance
2 145 (30.21%) Banking
3 111 (23.13%) Front Office
4 93 (19.38%) Investment Banking
5 18 (3.750%) Back Office
6 13 (2.708%) Advertising
7 9 (1.875%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.875%) Russian Language
8 7 (1.458%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.250%) Retail
10 5 (1.042%) Games
11 2 (0.417%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.417%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.208%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.208%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (32.29%) Analyst
2 101 (21.04%) Support Analyst
3 92 (19.17%) Developer
4 56 (11.67%) Applications Support
5 43 (8.958%) Applications Support Analyst
6 39 (8.125%) Java Developer
7 29 (6.042%) Administrator
8 25 (5.208%) Systems Administrator
8 25 (5.208%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.750%) FIX Analyst
10 16 (3.333%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 15 (3.125%) UNIX Administrator
11 15 (3.125%) C++ Developer
11 15 (3.125%) UNIX Systems Administrator
11 15 (3.125%) Test Analyst
12 14 (2.917%) Junior
12 14 (2.917%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 13 (2.708%) DBA
14 12 (2.500%) Service Support Manager
14 12 (2.500%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 129 (26.88%) Equities
2 84 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (11.04%) Derivative
4 31 (6.458%) Computer Science
5 30 (6.250%) CLARiiON
6 26 (5.417%) Fixed Income
7 22 (4.583%) Clustering
7 22 (4.583%) EMC Centera
8 19 (3.958%) Mathematics
9 16 (3.333%) Hedge funds
9 16 (3.333%) Firmware
9 16 (3.333%) Device Driver
10 15 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.083%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (2.083%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.667%) SWIFT
13 6 (1.250%) Replication
14 4 (0.833%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.833%) iSeries
14 4 (0.833%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 267 (55.63%) UNIX
2 166 (34.58%) Linux
3 83 (17.29%) Windows
4 33 (6.875%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (5.625%) Solaris
6 16 (3.333%) FreeBSD
7 6 (1.250%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.042%) Windows 2000
8 5 (1.042%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.625%) CentOS
10 2 (0.417%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.417%) Debian
10 2 (0.417%) OpenBSD
10 2 (0.417%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.208%) AIX
11 1 (0.208%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (22.71%) Electronic Trading
2 45 (9.375%) ITIL
3 43 (8.958%) Asset Management
4 38 (7.917%) Multithreading
5 35 (7.292%) Budget Control
6 32 (6.667%) Analytics
7 27 (5.625%) Project Management
8 26 (5.417%) Algorithmic Trading
9 21 (4.375%) E-Commerce
10 19 (3.958%) Portfolio Management
10 19 (3.958%) Agile Software Development
11 17 (3.542%) Workflow
11 17 (3.542%) Configuration Management
12 16 (3.333%) OO
13 15 (3.125%) Change Control
14 14 (2.917%) Business Analysis
14 14 (2.917%) Software Testing
15 13 (2.708%) Risk Analysis
16 11 (2.292%) TDD
16 11 (2.292%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 216 (45.00%) SQL
2 119 (24.79%) Java
3 64 (13.33%) Perl
4 60 (12.50%) C++
5 41 (8.542%) Shell Script
6 33 (6.875%) C
6 33 (6.875%) Python
7 30 (6.250%) Bash shell
8 24 (5.000%) C#
9 19 (3.958%) Embedded C
10 16 (3.333%) Embedded C++
11 12 (2.500%) Ruby
12 11 (2.292%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.875%) PHP
14 7 (1.458%) Scala
15 6 (1.250%) JavaScript
15 6 (1.250%) VB
16 5 (1.042%) Korn
17 4 (0.833%) Lua
18 3 (0.625%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (18.13%) Degree
2 31 (6.458%) CCA
3 14 (2.917%) ISEB
4 8 (1.667%) HNC
5 6 (1.250%) Sun Certification
6 5 (1.042%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.833%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.833%) MCSE
8 1 (0.208%) Brainbench
8 1 (0.208%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.208%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.333%) QA
2 39 (8.125%) SLA
3 11 (2.292%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.875%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.042%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.833%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.625%) ClearTrust
5 1 (0.208%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (1.875%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 7 (1.458%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.625%) Nagios
3 3 (0.625%) Control-M
3 3 (0.625%) Cacti
4 1 (0.208%) Unicenter
4 1 (0.208%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.208%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.208%) OpenView
4 1 (0.208%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 126 (26.25%) Oracle
2 37 (7.708%) Red Hat
3 30 (6.250%) EMC
4 29 (6.042%) Sybase
5 22 (4.583%) Microsoft
5 22 (4.583%) TIBCO
5 22 (4.583%) Bloomberg
6 20 (4.167%) Fidessa
7 10 (2.083%) Reuters
7 10 (2.083%) SunGard
8 9 (1.875%) Cisco
9 7 (1.458%) IBM
9 7 (1.458%) Charles River
10 5 (1.042%) Juniper
10 5 (1.042%) VMware
10 5 (1.042%) MarketAxess
10 5 (1.042%) Tradeweb
11 4 (0.833%) Citrix
11 4 (0.833%) Veritas
11 4 (0.833%) CheckPoint
City, London
Your technical background will be based towards Unix/Linux and you will possess shell scripting skills as well as good experience with SQL. Experience with the FIX protocol...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + Bonus, Life insurance ,Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Fantastic opportunity to gain FIX Protocol - FIX Connectivity experience... The Support Analyst will troubleshoot problems using a wide range of technical issues using UNIX, SQL, Java and XML,...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonus and benefits package
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Application Support; Charles River; Fixed Income; Equities; Perl; Python; Oracle. A leading Investment Management company is after an enthusiastic and passionate Application Support Specialist to play a critical...
iKas International
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
PERL or Java) - Experience in a Windows and UNIX environment. - SQL These technical skills are not musts, but are highly beneficial: - FIX Protocol - Other scripting languages including: PowerShell,...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
As the application support analyst, you will be working extensively with technologies such as Excel, VBA, SQL and FIX to technically support front office trade applications within a...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Application support, FIX electronic trading platform, FIX client on-boarding, FIX certification FIX Engineer required for Equities Front Office Connectivity team. This role will cover client on-boarding,...
Real Staffing
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
For this role, you must have previous experience of: - Banking, ideally either Client facing or Trader facing - Strong technical skills in Scripting, Unix and Databases It is also...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Understanding of and hands on experience with FIX protocol and connectivity - Experience of liaising with or working with exchanges and algo trading/ DMAs - SQL - Linux OS - Excel/VBA...
Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
the FIX protocol, Market Links Development)... Other essential skills include multi-threaded programming, Spring framework, Oracle PL/SQL, XML based GUI frameworks and Unix... Ideal additional skills cover...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
C# GUI Developer with Java -Electronic Trading- Investment Banking... the FIX protocol, Market Links Development)... The system is written in Java with a C++ core and is running...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Technical skills required: Java Developer - Options Market Making - Java / C++ / Linux / Multi threading / KDB / FIX - London* Solid Java Core experience in a Linux runtime and Windows IDE (Eclipse/...
Argyll Scott International
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
The focus is on building market leading solutions of which this global brand has built a significant reputation on. Working in agile paired programming methodologies on full life...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
The focus is on building market leading solutions of which this global brand has built a significant reputation on. Working in agile paired programming methodologies on full life...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
You MUST have the following experience: - Technical knowledge and support of FX trading platforms, whether for a brokerage, buy-side or sell side environment - Computer Science or IT...
Joseph Harry Ltd
Salary: From £28,000 to £42,000 per annum + 10-20% Bonus + Pension
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Skills Desired:- Knowledge of Sybase and tuning techniques along with scripting (perl).- C++ /KDB/q Knowledge would also be an advantage but is not essential.- Strong knowledge and/...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
The day to day activities of this role will include the following: Team build out and development Department management and progression Technical upgrade and implementation You will be...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
To be considered for the role of, Head of Low Latency technology, Electronic Trading, Head of Connectivity (Head of Connectivity, Low Latency, FIX Protocol, Finance, London) you must...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Software Engineer, Software Developer, C/C++, C++, VC++, Visual C++, MFC, Visual Studio, Windows, Linux, Embedded C, RTOS, TCP/IP, UDP... Visual Studio and using MFC (Microsoft Foundation...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Embedded C, Embedded Software, Firmware, C/C++, FreeBSD Kernel, RTOS, Linux, Device drivers, PCIe, Fiber channel, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, Storage, Datacentre, SATA disks, Disk storage, R&D. This...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The Professional Services Consultant will have; - A degree in Computer Science related subject - At least 2-3 years client facing, implementation, integration, pre-sales or consultancy focussed position -...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: - In depth Java development experience using JDBC, JQuery, Spring, and Hibernate - Additional skills desired include FIX Protocol, Flex, actuate and WSDL but not essential This role...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: Up to 80k + bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013