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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 430 390
Rank change year-on-year +14 -40 +177
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 57 111 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.46% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 96 236
10th Percentile £500 £513 £538
25th Percentile £591 £625 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £751 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -5.45%
75th Percentile £819 £850 £738
90th Percentile £906 £1,250 £850
UK median daily rate £715 £751 £650
% change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -5.45%

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 5,355 7,617 10,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 20.75% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,716 5,406 8,049
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £791 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 236 129
10th Percentile £29.66 £22.63 £29.15
25th Percentile £47.90 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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 29 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 29 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 0 54 £715 -4.73% 133
South West - 1 £300 - 18
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 (3.51%) IIS
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.75%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.75%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.51%) GitHub
1 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (1.75%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (15.79%) Multicast
3 4 (7.02%) Wireshark
4 3 (5.26%) HTTP
4 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.51%) DHCP
5 2 (3.51%) DNS
5 2 (3.51%) Firewall
6 1 (1.75%) BGP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.75%) HSRP
6 1 (1.75%) IGMP
6 1 (1.75%) IPsec
6 1 (1.75%) OSPF
6 1 (1.75%) Unicast
6 1 (1.75%) VLAN
6 1 (1.75%) VRRP
6 1 (1.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.77%) KDB
3 2 (3.51%) Hazelcast
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Redis
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Big Data
4 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JMeter
2 9 (15.79%) LoadRunner
3 7 (12.28%) Git
4 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.51%) git-flow
6 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.51%) JUnit
7 1 (1.75%) GCC
7 1 (1.75%) GDB
7 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 31 (54.39%) Banking
2 25 (43.86%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Investment Banking
4 9 (15.79%) Front Office
5 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Back Office
8 1 (1.75%) Advertising
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Developer
2 30 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 16 (28.07%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 16 (28.07%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 15 (26.32%) Analyst
5 10 (17.54%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 10 (17.54%) Test Analyst
6 9 (15.79%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (15.79%) Senior
7 8 (14.04%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
7 8 (14.04%) QA Analyst
7 8 (14.04%) QA Engineer
7 8 (14.04%) QA Test Analyst
7 8 (14.04%) QA Test Engineer
7 8 (14.04%) Test Engineer
8 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
9 5 (8.77%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.26%) FIX Support Analyst
10 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Kafka
1 4 (7.02%) Middleware
2 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.26%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (3.51%) REST
3 2 (3.51%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.75%) MyBatis
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) STL
4 1 (1.75%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (31.58%) Equities
3 10 (17.54%) Derivative
3 10 (17.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (12.28%) Fixed Income
5 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (7.02%) Algorithms
7 3 (5.26%) Clustering
7 3 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (5.26%) Eurex
7 3 (5.26%) State Machine
7 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (3.51%) TWAP
8 2 (3.51%) VWAP
9 1 (1.75%) Bitcoin
9 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.11%) Linux
2 11 (19.30%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Unix
4 3 (5.26%) CentOS
5 2 (3.51%) Rocky
6 1 (1.75%) Debian
6 1 (1.75%) Fedora
6 1 (1.75%) Solaris
6 1 (1.75%) SUSE
6 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Low Latency
2 28 (49.12%) Electronic Trading
3 17 (29.82%) Algorithmic Trading
4 13 (22.81%) Smart Order Routing
5 11 (19.30%) Market Making
6 10 (17.54%) Multithreading
6 10 (17.54%) Non-Functional Testing
6 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (17.54%) Stress Testing
7 7 (12.28%) Agile
7 7 (12.28%) DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 5 (8.77%) Order Management
9 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.02%) Client Onboarding
10 4 (7.02%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis
10 4 (7.02%) Garbage Collection
10 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.02%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 43 (75.44%) Java
2 19 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (19.30%) Bash
4 8 (14.04%) VB
5 7 (12.28%) SQL
6 4 (7.02%) C++
7 3 (5.26%) Perl
7 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) C#
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.75%) CBAP
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) PhD
3 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) EMIR
2 1 (1.75%) FINRA
2 1 (1.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Rundeck
2 3 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.26%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Kibana
4 1 (1.75%) logstash
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Bloomberg
1 7 (12.28%) ION Trading
1 7 (12.28%) Solace
2 3 (5.26%) CQG
2 3 (5.26%) Patsystems
2 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.26%) Refinitiv
2 3 (5.26%) Reuters
2 3 (5.26%) Trayport
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Calypso
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco
4 1 (1.75%) HP
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.75%) Murex
4 1 (1.75%) Tradeweb