FIX Protocol Contract Job Trends in London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 293 293
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -42
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 79 57 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 1.76% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 94
10th Percentile £363 £510 £550
25th Percentile £425 £600 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £715 £763
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -6.26% +17.35%
75th Percentile £788 £831 £850
90th Percentile £825 £908 £1,250
England median daily rate £667 £715 £751
% change year-on-year -6.68% -4.73% +15.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,166 3,230 4,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.14% 26.07% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,775 2,256 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 24
10th Percentile £23.33 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +21.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £59.85 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £81.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Central London -19 8 £550 -31.25% 13
FIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.53%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.53%) Global One
4 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) AWS
2 5 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (3.80%) Azure
5 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.65%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (8.86%) HTTP
2 7 (8.86%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) KDB
2 3 (3.80%) Kdb+
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.53%) Redis
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.53%) Tableau
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.27%) Big Data
4 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.53%) Gradle
2 2 (2.53%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.27%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.27%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.27%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 54 (68.35%) Front Office
2 37 (46.84%) Banking
3 36 (45.57%) Investment Banking
4 21 (26.58%) Finance
5 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
6 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Law
9 2 (2.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 46 (58.23%) Developer
2 40 (50.63%) Java Developer
3 29 (36.71%) Senior
4 24 (30.38%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 23 (29.11%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 22 (27.85%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 20 (25.32%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 20 (25.32%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (10.13%) Analyst
8 8 (10.13%) FIX Analyst
8 8 (10.13%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (10.13%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.86%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) Java Engineer
10 6 (7.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Algorithm Engineer
11 5 (6.33%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) Kafka
2 8 (10.13%) WebSockets
3 7 (8.86%) Ultra Messaging
4 6 (7.59%) Middleware
5 5 (6.33%) REST
6 4 (5.06%) Java Concurrency
6 4 (5.06%) JMS
6 4 (5.06%) XML
7 2 (2.53%) .NET
7 2 (2.53%) FIXML
7 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.53%) Web Services
8 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 1 (1.27%) FpML
8 1 (1.27%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.27%) NumPy
8 1 (1.27%) RESTful
8 1 (1.27%) SignalR
8 1 (1.27%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (43.04%) Equities
2 33 (41.77%) Derivative
3 26 (32.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (30.38%) Algorithms
4 24 (30.38%) TWAP
4 24 (30.38%) VWAP
5 16 (20.25%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (10.13%) Data Structures
6 8 (10.13%) Onboarding
7 7 (8.86%) Fixed Income
8 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 2 (2.53%) Eurex
10 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.53%) Swaptions
11 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
11 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Unix
2 3 (3.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) Electronic Trading
2 53 (67.09%) Low Latency
3 42 (53.16%) Algorithmic Trading
4 39 (49.37%) Multithreading
5 28 (35.44%) Smart Order Routing
6 25 (31.65%) Quantitative Trading
7 20 (25.32%) Design Patterns
7 20 (25.32%) Garbage Collection
7 20 (25.32%) TDD
8 19 (24.05%) OO
8 19 (24.05%) UML
9 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
11 13 (16.46%) Agile
12 12 (15.19%) Analytics
12 12 (15.19%) Event-Driven
13 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (11.39%) Backtesting
14 9 (11.39%) Observability
14 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (65.82%) Java
2 20 (25.32%) Python
2 20 (25.32%) SQL
3 11 (13.92%) C++
4 9 (11.39%) C#
5 8 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.86%) Rust
7 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) Perl
8 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.27%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Grafana
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Control-M
3 2 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Charles River
2 7 (8.86%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.06%) Splunk
4 3 (3.80%) Solace
5 2 (2.53%) Citrix
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.53%) Murex
6 1 (1.27%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.27%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.27%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.27%) Tradeweb