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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 288 297
Rank change year-on-year -86 +9 -30
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 75 71 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.82% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 65
10th Percentile £551 £500 £432
25th Percentile £663 £594 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £715 £751
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -4.73% +11.19%
75th Percentile £800 £828 £875
90th Percentile £968 £913 £950
England median daily rate £755 £715 £751
% change year-on-year +5.59% -4.73% +11.19%

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 5,289 3,897 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.15% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,713 3,491
10th Percentile £400 £368 £383
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £823 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -36 2 £699 +3.52% 13
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 (2.67%) MTS
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Aladdin
1 6 (8.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.67%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.67%) Global One
3 1 (1.33%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Azure
3 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.67%) GitHub
3 2 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.33%) GCP
4 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (13.33%) Multicast
3 8 (10.67%) HTTP
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) KDB
2 5 (6.67%) Kdb+
3 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Redis
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.67%) Tableau
5 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) JIRA
2 4 (5.33%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.67%) GitLab
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) Crucible
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.33%) Gradle
4 1 (1.33%) Maven
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 50 (66.67%) Front Office
2 40 (53.33%) Banking
3 39 (52.00%) Investment Banking
4 21 (28.00%) Finance
5 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Back Office
7 2 (2.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (50.67%) Developer
2 30 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 28 (37.33%) Senior
4 20 (26.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 19 (25.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 16 (21.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 15 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 15 (20.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (10.67%) Senior Developer
8 8 (10.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Software Engineer
9 7 (9.33%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (9.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (8.00%) Applications Support
10 6 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (6.67%) Algorithm Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Java Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Kafka
2 10 (13.33%) WebSockets
3 7 (9.33%) Ultra Messaging
4 5 (6.67%) Middleware
5 4 (5.33%) Java Concurrency
6 3 (4.00%) .NET
6 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.00%) React
6 3 (4.00%) REST
6 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.67%) CSS
7 2 (2.67%) eBPF
7 2 (2.67%) FIXML
7 2 (2.67%) HTML
7 2 (2.67%) jQuery
7 2 (2.67%) Next.js
7 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.67%) SignalR
7 2 (2.67%) Spring
7 2 (2.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 33 (44.00%) Equities
2 32 (42.67%) Derivative
3 19 (25.33%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (25.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (25.33%) TWAP
3 19 (25.33%) VWAP
4 17 (22.67%) Algorithms
5 12 (16.00%) Fixed Income
6 8 (10.67%) Data Structures
7 5 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.67%) Eurex
9 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.67%) Swaptions
10 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.00%) Low Latency
2 44 (58.67%) Electronic Trading
3 38 (50.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 34 (45.33%) Multithreading
5 21 (28.00%) Quantitative Trading
5 21 (28.00%) Smart Order Routing
6 20 (26.67%) Agile
7 18 (24.00%) CI/CD
7 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.33%) Design Patterns
8 16 (21.33%) TDD
9 15 (20.00%) Garbage Collection
9 15 (20.00%) OO
9 15 (20.00%) UML
10 14 (18.67%) Event-Driven
11 13 (17.33%) Analytics
11 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
12 12 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (16.00%) Observability
13 9 (12.00%) Backtesting
Programming Languages
1 41 (54.67%) Java
2 24 (32.00%) Python
3 23 (30.67%) SQL
4 15 (20.00%) C++
5 14 (18.67%) TypeScript
6 12 (16.00%) C#
7 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.67%) Rust
9 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.00%) Perl
10 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.67%) Tcl
11 1 (1.33%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.67%) Control-M
3 2 (2.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) MarketAxess
1 8 (10.67%) Tradeweb
2 6 (8.00%) Bloomberg
3 5 (6.67%) Charles River
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.00%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.67%) Murex
6 2 (2.67%) NYFIX
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle
6 2 (2.67%) Solace
6 2 (2.67%) Sybase
7 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.33%) FIS
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) SunGard
7 1 (1.33%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.33%) Trayport