FIX Protocol Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 107 121
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +38
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 12 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.92% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.87% 3.58% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 16
10th Percentile £509 £483 £456
25th Percentile £587 £503 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £716 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £697 £825 £713
90th Percentile £913 £948 £794
Central London median daily rate £648 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -10.69% +11.54% +4.00%

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 418 530 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.99% 25.72% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 320 419
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £440 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £591 £598
% change year-on-year -6.90% -1.13% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FIX Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (8.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (8.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Front Office
3 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Architect
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) C# Architect
3 1 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Swing
2 1 (8.33%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (41.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (16.67%) Derivative
6 1 (8.33%) Equities
6 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
6 1 (8.33%) State Machine
6 1 (8.33%) TWAP
6 1 (8.33%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Low Latency
2 7 (58.33%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (41.67%) High-Frequency Trading
4 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 5 (41.67%) Observability
5 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (33.33%) Data Science
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (33.33%) Project Management
5 4 (33.33%) RBAC
5 4 (33.33%) Time Management
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Order Management
6 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (41.67%) Kibana
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Solace
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) ION Trading
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Portware
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase
3 1 (8.33%) TIBCO