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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 291 242
Rank change year-on-year -6 -49 +62
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 77 78 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.52% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 2.02% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 46 151
10th Percentile £423 £436 £550
25th Percentile £504 £514 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £819 £889 £800
90th Percentile £963 £928 £950
England median daily rate £688 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +12.00%

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 3,812 3,852 4,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 25.73% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,572 2,512 3,569
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 31
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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
Central London -15 10 £660 -8.97% 14
South London - 2 £850 - 1
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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.19%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.19%) thinkFolio
3 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.30%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.79%) Azure
2 4 (5.19%) AWS
2 4 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (5.19%) Serverless
3 2 (2.60%) GitHub
3 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.30%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) Multicast
2 9 (11.69%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.79%) tcpdump
3 6 (7.79%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) KDB
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (7.79%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.30%) HBase
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.09%) Maven
3 5 (6.49%) GCC
3 5 (6.49%) GDB
4 4 (5.19%) Gradle
5 3 (3.90%) Git
6 2 (2.60%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.30%) Crucible
7 1 (1.30%) GitLab
7 1 (1.30%) JIRA
7 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 52 (67.53%) Front Office
2 37 (48.05%) Social Skills
3 31 (40.26%) Banking
4 24 (31.17%) Finance
5 20 (25.97%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.49%) International Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Back Office
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (49.35%) Developer
2 28 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior
4 11 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 11 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 6 (7.79%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) .NET Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Architect
8 4 (5.19%) FIX Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) Middleware
2 12 (15.58%) REST
3 10 (12.99%) Ultra Messaging
4 9 (11.69%) XML
5 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (7.79%) .NET
6 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 5 (6.49%) Kafka
7 5 (6.49%) STL
8 4 (5.19%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.19%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.19%) JSON
9 2 (2.60%) JMS
9 2 (2.60%) MyBatis
9 2 (2.60%) RESTful
9 2 (2.60%) Swing
10 1 (1.30%) Akka
10 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (1.30%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 40 (51.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (25.97%) Algorithms
3 18 (23.38%) Derivative
4 17 (22.08%) Fixed Income
5 13 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
6 12 (15.58%) Equities
7 8 (10.39%) TWAP
7 8 (10.39%) VWAP
8 7 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
10 5 (6.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
11 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
11 4 (5.19%) Replication
12 3 (3.90%) Hedge funds
12 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (2.60%) Clustering
13 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (38.96%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Unix
3 4 (5.19%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.94%) Low Latency
2 40 (51.95%) Electronic Trading
3 29 (37.66%) Multithreading
4 25 (32.47%) CI/CD
5 23 (29.87%) Algorithmic Trading
6 21 (27.27%) Agile
7 20 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (24.68%) DevOps
9 13 (16.88%) Design Patterns
10 12 (15.58%) Observability
11 11 (14.29%) TDD
12 10 (12.99%) Capacity Planning
12 10 (12.99%) Decision-Making
12 10 (12.99%) Garbage Collection
12 10 (12.99%) High Availability
12 10 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.99%) Smart Order Routing
13 9 (11.69%) Concurrent Programming
13 9 (11.69%) Scrum
13 9 (11.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.05%) Java
2 26 (33.77%) Python
3 23 (29.87%) PowerShell
4 20 (25.97%) SQL
5 15 (19.48%) C#
6 11 (14.29%) Bash
7 6 (7.79%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) Clojure
8 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.30%) Rust
8 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 7 (9.09%) MiFID
3 3 (3.90%) EMIR
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (11.69%) Grafana
2 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Prometheus
3 7 (9.09%) Kibana
3 7 (9.09%) logstash
4 3 (3.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.30%) Terraform
5 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (37.66%) Solace
2 11 (14.29%) TIBCO
3 10 (12.99%) Bloomberg
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.49%) Refinitiv
6 4 (5.19%) Charles River
6 4 (5.19%) Portware
7 3 (3.90%) NYFIX
7 3 (3.90%) Oracle
7 3 (3.90%) Splunk
8 2 (2.60%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.30%) Azul
9 1 (1.30%) Calypso
9 1 (1.30%) Citrix
9 1 (1.30%) Murex
9 1 (1.30%) Radianz
9 1 (1.30%) Reuters
9 1 (1.30%) Sophis
9 1 (1.30%) Sybase
9 1 (1.30%) Trayport