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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 289 302
Rank change year-on-year -53 +13 -72
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 77 61 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.49% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.78% 1.85% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 86
10th Percentile £363 £529 £538
25th Percentile £425 £613 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £720 £775
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% -7.10% +19.23%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £875
90th Percentile £844 £913 £1,250
England median daily rate £668 £715 £775
% change year-on-year -6.64% -7.74% +19.23%

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 4,322 3,304 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 26.48% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,315 3,476
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -23 8 £550 -25.42% 6
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 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Fidessa
2 3 (3.90%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.60%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.60%) Global One
4 1 (1.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (5.19%) Azure
3 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (33.77%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (10.39%) HTTP
3 7 (9.09%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) KDB
2 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.90%) Kdb+
3 3 (3.90%) Redis
4 2 (2.60%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.60%) Tableau
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Git
1 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) GitLab
2 2 (2.60%) Gradle
2 2 (2.60%) Maven
3 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.30%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 51 (66.23%) Front Office
2 37 (48.05%) Banking
3 36 (46.75%) Investment Banking
4 22 (28.57%) Finance
5 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
6 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 44 (57.14%) Developer
2 36 (46.75%) Java Developer
3 29 (37.66%) Senior
4 24 (31.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 23 (29.87%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 20 (25.97%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 20 (25.97%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 20 (25.97%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Analyst
7 8 (10.39%) FIX Analyst
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (9.09%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Algorithm Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Kafka
2 10 (12.99%) WebSockets
3 7 (9.09%) Ultra Messaging
4 5 (6.49%) Middleware
4 5 (6.49%) REST
5 4 (5.19%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (5.19%) XML
6 3 (3.90%) .NET
6 3 (3.90%) JMS
6 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.90%) React
7 2 (2.60%) FIXML
7 2 (2.60%) Next.js
7 2 (2.60%) SignalR
7 2 (2.60%) Web Services
8 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.30%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.30%) NumPy
8 1 (1.30%) Pandas
8 1 (1.30%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (45.45%) Derivative
2 33 (42.86%) Equities
3 24 (31.17%) TWAP
3 24 (31.17%) VWAP
4 23 (29.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (27.27%) Algorithms
6 17 (22.08%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (10.39%) Data Structures
7 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
8 7 (9.09%) Fixed Income
9 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
11 2 (2.60%) Eurex
11 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (2.60%) Swaptions
12 1 (1.30%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Unix
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (71.43%) Electronic Trading
2 50 (64.94%) Low Latency
3 42 (54.55%) Algorithmic Trading
4 37 (48.05%) Multithreading
5 27 (35.06%) Smart Order Routing
6 25 (32.47%) Quantitative Trading
7 20 (25.97%) Design Patterns
7 20 (25.97%) Garbage Collection
7 20 (25.97%) TDD
8 19 (24.68%) OO
8 19 (24.68%) UML
9 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
11 12 (15.58%) Agile
11 12 (15.58%) Event-Driven
11 12 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (14.29%) Analytics
13 10 (12.99%) Observability
14 9 (11.69%) Backtesting
14 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.04%) Java
2 22 (28.57%) Python
3 21 (27.27%) SQL
4 12 (15.58%) C++
5 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.99%) C#
7 8 (10.39%) Rust
8 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) Perl
9 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Control-M
3 2 (2.60%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Charles River
2 7 (9.09%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.19%) Splunk
4 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.60%) Citrix
5 2 (2.60%) MarketAxess
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) Murex
5 2 (2.60%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.30%) Solace