Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FpML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FpML over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 875 970 1218
Rank change year-on-year +95 +248 -307
Permanent jobs citing FpML 2 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.009% 0.026% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - £57,500 -
25th Percentile £107,500 £84,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £97,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £110,313 -
90th Percentile - £140,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FpML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,058 31,283 63,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.13% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,741 19,277 30,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FpML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FpML.

Salary trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FpML within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +118 2 £115,000 +17.95% 1
England +81 2 £115,000 +17.95% 1

FpML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Murex Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Murex Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Murex