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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 303 262
Rank change year-on-year -39 -41 -20
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 73 48 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.38% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 1.47% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 120
10th Percentile £363 £500 £550
25th Percentile £444 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £715 £750
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% -4.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £775 £811 £850
90th Percentile £919 £910 £1,250
England median daily rate £574 £715 £750
% change year-on-year -19.72% -4.67% +15.38%

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 4,180 3,274 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.63% 26.00% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,841 2,287 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £835 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +41.53% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 £69.40
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 3 April 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 April 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 -18 8 £506 -32.81% 10
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 (2.74%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.74%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.74%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.22%) AWS
2 5 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.37%) Azure
4 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (30.14%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (10.96%) Multicast
3 2 (2.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) KDB
2 4 (5.48%) Kdb+
3 2 (2.74%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.74%) Tableau
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Redis
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Gradle
1 3 (4.11%) Maven
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Crucible
3 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.37%) GCC
3 1 (1.37%) GDB
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 54 (73.97%) Front Office
2 31 (42.47%) Banking
3 27 (36.99%) Investment Banking
4 24 (32.88%) Finance
5 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
6 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.48%) Back Office
7 4 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Law
9 2 (2.74%) Legal
9 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.37%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (58.90%) Developer
2 38 (52.05%) Java Developer
3 23 (31.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 23 (31.51%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 22 (30.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 22 (30.14%) Senior
5 17 (23.29%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
5 17 (23.29%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 10 (13.70%) Analyst
7 8 (10.96%) FIX Analyst
7 8 (10.96%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Middleware
2 7 (9.59%) REST
2 7 (9.59%) XML
3 6 (8.22%) Kafka
4 4 (5.48%) JMS
5 3 (4.11%) Ultra Messaging
6 2 (2.74%) .NET
6 2 (2.74%) FIXML
6 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) Web Services
6 2 (2.74%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (1.37%) FpML
7 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.37%) Java Concurrency
7 1 (1.37%) NHibernate
7 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.37%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (38.36%) Equities
1 28 (38.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (36.99%) Derivative
3 23 (31.51%) Algorithms
4 19 (26.03%) TWAP
4 19 (26.03%) VWAP
5 8 (10.96%) Fixed Income
5 8 (10.96%) Onboarding
6 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
8 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
11 2 (2.74%) Eurex
11 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (2.74%) Swaptions
11 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 1 (1.37%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Unix
2 6 (8.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) Electronic Trading
2 44 (60.27%) Low Latency
3 34 (46.58%) Multithreading
4 33 (45.21%) Algorithmic Trading
5 23 (31.51%) Smart Order Routing
6 20 (27.40%) TDD
7 18 (24.66%) Agile
7 18 (24.66%) Design Patterns
7 18 (24.66%) Quantitative Trading
8 17 (23.29%) Garbage Collection
9 16 (21.92%) OO
9 16 (21.92%) UML
10 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.07%) Analytics
12 8 (10.96%) Scrum
13 7 (9.59%) Concurrent Programming
13 7 (9.59%) Kanban
13 7 (9.59%) Quantitative Finance
13 7 (9.59%) Sprint Planning
13 7 (9.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (67.12%) Java
2 20 (27.40%) SQL
3 15 (20.55%) Python
4 12 (16.44%) C#
5 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.85%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Perl
7 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.74%) Rust
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) EMIR
2 3 (4.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Grafana
2 3 (4.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (2.74%) Control-M
3 2 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Bloomberg
2 10 (13.70%) Charles River
3 4 (5.48%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.48%) Refinitiv
3 4 (5.48%) Splunk
4 3 (4.11%) NYFIX
4 3 (4.11%) Solace
5 2 (2.74%) Citrix
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Murex
6 1 (1.37%) FIS
6 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.37%) Trayport