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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 308 249
Rank change year-on-year +18 -59 +142
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 72 80 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.50% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 1.78% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 56 186
10th Percentile £456 £411 £535
25th Percentile £575 £596 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £763 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +12.96% +3.85%
75th Percentile £834 £875 £786
90th Percentile £916 £932 £919
England median daily rate £700 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%

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 3,503 4,485 5,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 27.77% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 3,076 4,240
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 17 £663 -11.67% 6
South London - 6 £850 -
FIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.78%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) IIS
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Aladdin
1 4 (5.56%) Fidessa
1 4 (5.56%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (5.56%) GitHub
2 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (5.56%) Serverless
3 2 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) Figma
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) Multicast
2 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) tcpdump
3 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.33%) KDB
3 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.17%) Redis
5 2 (2.78%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.78%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.11%) Git
3 6 (8.33%) GCC
3 6 (8.33%) GDB
4 5 (6.94%) Maven
5 4 (5.56%) IntelliJ
6 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.17%) JIRA
6 3 (4.17%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.78%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.78%) git-flow
7 2 (2.78%) Gradle
7 2 (2.78%) JMeter
7 2 (2.78%) JUnit
7 2 (2.78%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 33 (45.83%) Front Office
2 31 (43.06%) Banking
3 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
4 28 (38.89%) Finance
5 18 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.33%) International Banking
8 4 (5.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 45 (62.50%) Developer
2 25 (34.72%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.89%) C++ Developer
4 8 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior
7 5 (6.94%) Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.56%) .NET Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.17%) Middleware
2 9 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (9.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (9.72%) STL
4 6 (8.33%) Ultra Messaging
5 5 (6.94%) .NET
5 5 (6.94%) FpML
5 5 (6.94%) Kafka
5 5 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.17%) JSON
7 3 (4.17%) MyBatis
7 3 (4.17%) XML
8 1 (1.39%) JMS
8 1 (1.39%) Swing
8 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (62.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (29.17%) Fixed Income
3 19 (26.39%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (22.22%) Algorithms
5 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
6 12 (16.67%) Derivative
6 12 (16.67%) Equities
7 7 (9.72%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (9.72%) Data Structures
7 7 (9.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (5.56%) Clustering
8 4 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
8 4 (5.56%) Reference Data
9 3 (4.17%) Hedge funds
9 3 (4.17%) Replication
9 3 (4.17%) TWAP
9 3 (4.17%) VWAP
10 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 37 (51.39%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Unix
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) Low Latency
2 34 (47.22%) Electronic Trading
3 24 (33.33%) DevOps
4 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 20 (27.78%) Multithreading
6 19 (26.39%) Agile
7 18 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (22.22%) Algorithmic Trading
8 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (20.83%) High Availability
9 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
10 11 (15.28%) Design Patterns
10 11 (15.28%) Order Management
11 10 (13.89%) Observability
11 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.89%) Test Automation
12 9 (12.50%) Data Protection
12 9 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 9 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Python
2 32 (44.44%) Java
3 18 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 17 (23.61%) C++
5 13 (18.06%) SQL
6 9 (12.50%) C#
7 8 (11.11%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.39%) CBAP
4 1 (1.39%) PhD
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.39%) PMP
4 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) MiFID
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) FINRA
3 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.50%) Kibana
3 9 (12.50%) logstash
4 7 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.56%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Ansible
6 1 (1.39%) Terraform
6 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Solace
2 6 (8.33%) Bloomberg
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) TIBCO
3 4 (5.56%) Portware
3 4 (5.56%) Refinitiv
4 2 (2.78%) Calypso
4 2 (2.78%) Murex
5 1 (1.39%) Azul
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) Citrix
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) FactSet
5 1 (1.39%) HP
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Reuters
5 1 (1.39%) Sophis
5 1 (1.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Tradeweb