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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 300 274
Rank change year-on-year -28 -26 -30
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 76 54 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 1.65% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 106
10th Percentile £363 £500 £550
25th Percentile £425 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £715 £751
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% -4.73% +15.46%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £850
90th Percentile £895 £913 £1,250
England median daily rate £565 £715 £751
% change year-on-year -20.98% -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 4,198 3,272 4,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.73% 26.07% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 2,298 3,357
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 25
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +42.51% -44.18%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 30 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 30 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 -14 8 £506 -36.72% 14
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 (1.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.63%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.63%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) AWS
2 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.63%) Azure
4 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.89%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (6.58%) HTTP
3 4 (5.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) KDB
2 2 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.63%) Kdb+
2 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.63%) Redis
2 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.63%) Tableau
3 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Git
1 3 (3.95%) Gradle
1 3 (3.95%) Maven
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 54 (71.05%) Front Office
2 31 (40.79%) Banking
3 29 (38.16%) Investment Banking
4 24 (31.58%) Finance
5 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
6 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.95%) Back Office
8 3 (3.95%) Law
9 2 (2.63%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (60.53%) Developer
2 41 (53.95%) Java Developer
3 26 (34.21%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 25 (32.89%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 24 (31.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 24 (31.58%) Senior
6 20 (26.32%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 20 (26.32%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
7 9 (11.84%) Analyst
8 8 (10.53%) FIX Analyst
8 8 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (7.89%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) Kafka
2 6 (7.89%) Middleware
2 6 (7.89%) REST
2 6 (7.89%) WebSockets
3 5 (6.58%) XML
4 4 (5.26%) Java Concurrency
4 4 (5.26%) JMS
5 3 (3.95%) Ultra Messaging
6 2 (2.63%) .NET
6 2 (2.63%) FIXML
6 2 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.63%) Web Services
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.32%) FpML
7 1 (1.32%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.32%) Next.js
7 1 (1.32%) React
7 1 (1.32%) RESTful
7 1 (1.32%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 30 (39.47%) Derivative
1 30 (39.47%) Equities
2 26 (34.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (32.89%) TWAP
3 25 (32.89%) VWAP
4 23 (30.26%) Algorithms
5 9 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (10.53%) Onboarding
7 6 (7.89%) Data Structures
8 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (6.58%) Fixed Income
9 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (2.63%) Eurex
10 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (2.63%) Swaptions
11 1 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
11 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Unix
2 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (67.11%) Electronic Trading
2 50 (65.79%) Low Latency
3 38 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 35 (46.05%) Multithreading
5 29 (38.16%) Smart Order Routing
6 24 (31.58%) Quantitative Trading
7 22 (28.95%) TDD
8 21 (27.63%) Design Patterns
9 20 (26.32%) Garbage Collection
10 19 (25.00%) OO
10 19 (25.00%) UML
11 17 (22.37%) Agile
12 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (17.11%) Analytics
14 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
14 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
15 8 (10.53%) Event-Driven
16 7 (9.21%) Quantitative Finance
16 7 (9.21%) Scrum
16 7 (9.21%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 54 (71.05%) Java
2 17 (22.37%) SQL
3 16 (21.05%) Python
4 11 (14.47%) C#
5 7 (9.21%) C++
6 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.58%) Rust
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) Perl
9 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Grafana
2 2 (2.63%) Control-M
2 2 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Charles River
2 8 (10.53%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.26%) Splunk
4 2 (2.63%) Citrix
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) Murex
4 2 (2.63%) Solace
5 1 (1.32%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.32%) Refinitiv