FIX Protocol Contracts in London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 303 240
Rank change year-on-year +13 -63 +165
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 70 93 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.53% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.96% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 76 241
10th Percentile £545 £513 £538
25th Percentile £613 £659 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £751 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -
75th Percentile £825 £875 £738
90th Percentile £910 £1,250 £838
England median daily rate £715 £751 £650
% change year-on-year -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 3,504 4,756 6,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 27.03% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,492 5,137
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 43
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £48.75
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -37.04% +38.48%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £85.85
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in London.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in London.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

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 6 July 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 +9 15 £675 -18.18% 63
South London - 4 £738 -
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 (2.86%) IIS
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.86%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.86%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.29%) Azure
1 3 (4.29%) GitHub
1 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (2.86%) Serverless
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Multicast
2 7 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
4 3 (4.29%) HTTP
5 1 (1.43%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.43%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.71%) KDB
3 2 (2.86%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.86%) MySQL
3 2 (2.86%) Redis
3 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Big Data
4 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) JMeter
2 9 (12.86%) LoadRunner
3 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.00%) Git
5 5 (7.14%) GCC
5 5 (7.14%) GDB
6 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.29%) JIRA
6 3 (4.29%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.86%) git-flow
7 2 (2.86%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.86%) JUnit
7 2 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 38 (54.29%) Banking
2 32 (45.71%) Finance
3 21 (30.00%) Front Office
4 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 19 (27.14%) Investment Banking
6 13 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.14%) International Banking
8 4 (5.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.86%) Back Office
10 1 (1.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 28 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (18.57%) Analyst
4 11 (15.71%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 10 (14.29%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 10 (14.29%) Test Analyst
6 9 (12.86%) C++ Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Senior
7 8 (11.43%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (11.43%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) Python Developer
7 8 (11.43%) QA Analyst
7 8 (11.43%) QA Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) QA Test Analyst
7 8 (11.43%) QA Test Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) Test Engineer
8 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) Middleware
2 6 (8.57%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 6 (8.57%) STL
3 5 (7.14%) FpML
4 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.71%) REST
5 3 (4.29%) .NET
5 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.29%) Kafka
5 3 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.86%) MyBatis
6 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.86%) Ultra Messaging
6 2 (2.86%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.43%) QuickFIX
7 1 (1.43%) React
7 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (52.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (24.29%) Fixed Income
3 14 (20.00%) Equities
4 12 (17.14%) Derivative
5 11 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (12.86%) Algorithms
8 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
8 6 (8.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (5.71%) Clustering
10 4 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (5.71%) Reference Data
11 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
12 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
12 2 (2.86%) State Machine
12 2 (2.86%) TWAP
12 2 (2.86%) VWAP
13 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (15.71%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Low Latency
2 32 (45.71%) Electronic Trading
3 15 (21.43%) Algorithmic Trading
3 15 (21.43%) DevOps
3 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.00%) Agile
4 14 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 13 (18.57%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (17.14%) High Availability
7 11 (15.71%) Market Making
7 11 (15.71%) Order Management
8 10 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
8 10 (14.29%) Stress Testing
9 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
9 9 (12.86%) Computer Science
9 9 (12.86%) Smart Order Routing
9 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (62.86%) Java
2 30 (42.86%) Python
3 16 (22.86%) C++
4 9 (12.86%) Bash
5 8 (11.43%) SQL
5 8 (11.43%) VB
6 7 (10.00%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) CBAP
4 1 (1.43%) PhD
4 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) MiFID
3 1 (1.43%) EMIR
3 1 (1.43%) FINRA
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Kibana
3 4 (5.71%) logstash
3 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Solace
2 6 (8.57%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.71%) Refinitiv
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.86%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.86%) Portware
5 2 (2.86%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.43%) Calypso
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Citrix
6 1 (1.43%) FactSet
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) Murex
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO