FIX Protocol Contracts in England

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 424 394
Rank change year-on-year -2 -30 +159
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 59 118 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 1.57% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 106 242
10th Percentile £500 £538 £550
25th Percentile £600 £625 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £751 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £804 £850 £738
90th Percentile £913 £1,250 £837
UK median daily rate £715 £751 £650
% change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -2.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in England

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in England.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in England

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in England

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in England.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in England

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -24 54 £715 -4.73% 110
Midlands +22 2 £650 +82.58%
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 £650 -
North of England - 2 £650 -
South West - 1 £300 - 1
FIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.39%) IIS
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Fidessa
2 2 (3.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.69%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.69%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.08%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (13.56%) Multicast
3 5 (8.47%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) DNS
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) HTTP
4 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.69%) BGP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.69%) HSRP
5 1 (1.69%) IGMP
5 1 (1.69%) IPsec
5 1 (1.69%) OSPF
5 1 (1.69%) Unicast
5 1 (1.69%) VLAN
5 1 (1.69%) VRRP
5 1 (1.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) KDB
3 2 (3.39%) MySQL
3 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) JMeter
2 9 (15.25%) LoadRunner
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.39%) ERwin
5 2 (3.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (54.24%) Banking
2 24 (40.68%) Finance
3 14 (23.73%) Investment Banking
4 11 (18.64%) Front Office
5 8 (13.56%) Back Office
6 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
7 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Developer
2 27 (45.76%) Java Developer
3 18 (30.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 18 (30.51%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 17 (28.81%) Analyst
5 12 (20.34%) Senior
6 10 (16.95%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 10 (16.95%) Test Analyst
7 9 (15.25%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (13.56%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) QA Analyst
8 8 (13.56%) QA Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) QA Test Analyst
8 8 (13.56%) QA Test Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) Test Engineer
9 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
9 6 (10.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (8.47%) Senior Flex Developer
11 4 (6.78%) Applications Support
11 4 (6.78%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) Kafka
2 5 (8.47%) FpML
3 3 (5.08%) .NET
4 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) Middleware
4 2 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (3.39%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.39%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) React
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.51%) Equities
2 17 (28.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (20.34%) Derivative
4 9 (15.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (10.17%) State Machine
6 5 (8.47%) Algorithms
7 4 (6.78%) Fixed Income
8 3 (5.08%) Eurex
8 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.39%) Reference Data
9 2 (3.39%) TWAP
9 2 (3.39%) VWAP
10 1 (1.69%) Bitcoin
10 1 (1.69%) Clustering
10 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.20%) Linux
2 11 (18.64%) Windows
3 5 (8.47%) Unix
4 3 (5.08%) CentOS
5 2 (3.39%) Rocky
6 1 (1.69%) Debian
6 1 (1.69%) Fedora
6 1 (1.69%) Solaris
6 1 (1.69%) SUSE
6 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.69%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) Low Latency
2 27 (45.76%) Electronic Trading
3 18 (30.51%) Smart Order Routing
4 15 (25.42%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (16.95%) Non-Functional Testing
5 10 (16.95%) Stress Testing
6 9 (15.25%) Multithreading
7 8 (13.56%) Market Making
8 7 (11.86%) Order Management
9 5 (8.47%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (8.47%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (6.78%) CI/CD
10 4 (6.78%) DevOps
10 4 (6.78%) E-Commerce
10 4 (6.78%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (6.78%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
11 3 (5.08%) Agile
11 3 (5.08%) Business Analysis
11 3 (5.08%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (69.49%) Java
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) Bash
3 11 (18.64%) SQL
4 8 (13.56%) VB
5 4 (6.78%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) Perl
7 2 (3.39%) C++
7 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) EMIR
2 3 (5.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Rundeck
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
2 3 (5.08%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) ION Trading
2 6 (10.17%) Solace
3 5 (8.47%) Bloomberg
4 3 (5.08%) CQG
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Patsystems
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.08%) Reuters
4 3 (5.08%) Trayport
5 2 (3.39%) Sparx
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.69%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.69%) Sybase
6 1 (1.69%) Tradeweb