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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 290 316
Rank change year-on-year -96 +26 -69
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 60 82 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.61% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 2.05% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 66 53
10th Percentile £663 £456 £411
25th Percentile £696 £525 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £663 £725
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -8.62% +3.57%
75th Percentile £859 £834 £900
90th Percentile £998 £919 £932
England median daily rate £755 £663 £725
% change year-on-year +13.96% -8.62% +3.57%

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 5,357 4,006 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 29.70% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,614 2,732 3,352
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £701
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -40 2 £699 +3.52% 26
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 3 (5.00%) MTS
2 2 (3.33%) Solana
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Aladdin
1 6 (10.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.67%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.00%) AWS
1 6 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (3.33%) GitHub
2 2 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (13.33%) HTTP
3 7 (11.67%) Multicast
4 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) KDB
2 4 (6.67%) Kdb+
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 5 (8.33%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.67%) Crucible
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (63.33%) Front Office
2 32 (53.33%) Banking
2 32 (53.33%) Investment Banking
3 18 (30.00%) Finance
4 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (46.67%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) Senior
3 21 (35.00%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 11 (18.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
5 11 (18.33%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 4 (6.67%) Algorithm Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 9 (15.00%) Kafka
3 5 (8.33%) React
3 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) Spring
4 4 (6.67%) Ultra Messaging
5 3 (5.00%) .NET
5 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.00%) Java Concurrency
5 3 (5.00%) Middleware
5 3 (5.00%) REST
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) eBPF
6 2 (3.33%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) jQuery
6 2 (3.33%) Next.js
6 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.33%) Redux
6 2 (3.33%) SignalR
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 26 (43.33%) Equities
2 25 (41.67%) Derivative
3 15 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (23.33%) Fixed Income
4 14 (23.33%) TWAP
4 14 (23.33%) VWAP
5 11 (18.33%) Algorithms
6 10 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (11.67%) Data Structures
8 5 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (3.33%) Blockchain
10 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
10 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
11 1 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Low Latency
2 32 (53.33%) Electronic Trading
3 29 (48.33%) Algorithmic Trading
4 24 (40.00%) Multithreading
5 17 (28.33%) Quantitative Trading
6 16 (26.67%) Smart Order Routing
7 15 (25.00%) Agile
7 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 13 (21.67%) Event-Driven
8 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
9 12 (20.00%) Design Patterns
9 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (20.00%) TDD
10 11 (18.33%) Garbage Collection
10 11 (18.33%) OO
10 11 (18.33%) UML
11 10 (16.67%) Observability
12 9 (15.00%) Analytics
12 9 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) Java
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 19 (31.67%) Python
4 13 (21.67%) C++
4 13 (21.67%) TypeScript
5 12 (20.00%) C#
6 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.67%) Rust
8 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.00%) Tcl
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) MarketAxess
1 9 (15.00%) Tradeweb
2 6 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 5 (8.33%) Charles River
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.00%) ION Trading
5 3 (5.00%) Sybase
6 2 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (3.33%) NYFIX
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Refinitiv
6 2 (3.33%) Solace
7 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.67%) FIS
7 1 (1.67%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) SunGard
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.67%) Trayport