FIX Protocol Contracts in the City of London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +37
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 10 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.59% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 2.70% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 34
10th Percentile £500 £471 £533
25th Percentile £528 £503 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £698 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +7.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £825 £834 £684
90th Percentile £958 £875 £931
Central London median daily rate £800 £698 £650
% change year-on-year +14.70% +7.31% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

FIX Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 480 481 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.32% 21.89% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 344 669
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Back Office
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) FpML
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Equities
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) State Machine
3 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Stress Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) EMIR
1 2 (20.00%) MiFID
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) HP
1 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Solace
1 1 (10.00%) Sybase