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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 282 247
Rank change year-on-year -24 -35 +41
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 72 67 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.49% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 1.86% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 37 142
10th Percentile £402 £410 £550
25th Percentile £464 £500 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £707 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +1.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £838 £863 £800
90th Percentile £970 £928 £950
England median daily rate £574 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.69% -7.14% +8.74%

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 3,782 3,594 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.22% 26.05% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,565 2,354 3,485
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -0.17% -5.57%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £758 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -16.15%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -7 8 £550 -23.18% 13
South London - 2 £850 - 1
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 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.39%) RMDS
3 1 (1.39%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.94%) AWS
2 3 (4.17%) Azure
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.39%) Figma
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (13.89%) Multicast
3 5 (6.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.56%) tcpdump
4 4 (5.56%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) KDB
2 6 (8.33%) Kdb+
3 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.39%) HBase
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.72%) Maven
3 5 (6.94%) Gradle
4 4 (5.56%) Git
5 3 (4.17%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.17%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.78%) GCC
6 2 (2.78%) GDB
7 1 (1.39%) Crucible
7 1 (1.39%) JIRA
7 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 51 (70.83%) Front Office
2 28 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (30.56%) Banking
3 22 (30.56%) Finance
4 15 (20.83%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Law
7 2 (2.78%) Back Office
7 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) International Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (52.78%) Developer
2 31 (43.06%) Java Developer
3 15 (20.83%) Senior
4 14 (19.44%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 10 (13.89%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 10 (13.89%) Analyst
6 10 (13.89%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (9.72%) FIX Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) C# Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
11 2 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) Middleware
2 10 (13.89%) REST
2 10 (13.89%) XML
3 9 (12.50%) Ultra Messaging
4 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.94%) Kafka
5 4 (5.56%) .NET
5 4 (5.56%) JSON
5 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.17%) JMS
6 3 (4.17%) RESTful
7 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (2.78%) STL
7 2 (2.78%) Swing
8 1 (1.39%) Akka
8 1 (1.39%) Blazor
8 1 (1.39%) MyBatis
8 1 (1.39%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.39%) ReactiveX
Miscellaneous
1 30 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (30.56%) Algorithms
3 17 (23.61%) Derivative
4 15 (20.83%) Equities
5 11 (15.28%) Fixed Income
5 11 (15.28%) TWAP
5 11 (15.28%) VWAP
6 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
7 7 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
8 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
9 5 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (5.56%) Replication
11 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.56%) Linux
2 10 (13.89%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.11%) Low Latency
2 40 (55.56%) Electronic Trading
3 28 (38.89%) Multithreading
4 25 (34.72%) Algorithmic Trading
5 19 (26.39%) CI/CD
6 18 (25.00%) Agile
7 14 (19.44%) Smart Order Routing
7 14 (19.44%) TDD
8 13 (18.06%) Design Patterns
8 13 (18.06%) DevOps
8 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (16.67%) Garbage Collection
10 10 (13.89%) OO
10 10 (13.89%) Quantitative Trading
10 10 (13.89%) Scrum
10 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
11 9 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
11 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 9 (12.50%) Observability
11 9 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Java
2 22 (30.56%) SQL
3 21 (29.17%) Python
4 17 (23.61%) PowerShell
5 13 (18.06%) C#
6 7 (9.72%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) Clojure
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.39%) Rust
8 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) MiFID
3 3 (4.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) Grafana
4 5 (6.94%) Kibana
4 5 (6.94%) logstash
4 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.17%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (1.39%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Solace
2 10 (13.89%) Bloomberg
2 10 (13.89%) TIBCO
3 7 (9.72%) Charles River
4 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.56%) Refinitiv
6 3 (4.17%) NYFIX
6 3 (4.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.78%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle
8 1 (1.39%) Azul
8 1 (1.39%) Citrix
8 1 (1.39%) FIS
8 1 (1.39%) Portware
8 1 (1.39%) Radianz
8 1 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (1.39%) Trayport