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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 294 251
Rank change year-on-year -31 -43 -10
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 75 52 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 1.56% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 28 126
10th Percentile £378 £500 £550
25th Percentile £463 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £715 £750
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% -4.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £763 £842 £825
90th Percentile £920 £912 £1,250
England median daily rate £565 £715 £750
% change year-on-year -20.98% -4.67% +15.38%

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 4,139 3,332 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.88% 26.15% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 2,306 3,335
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £829 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -3 10 £538 -28.67% 11
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%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.33%) Front Arena
3 1 (1.33%) Global One
3 1 (1.33%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) AWS
2 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.33%) Azure
4 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (14.67%) Multicast
3 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.33%) tcpdump
4 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.33%) HTTP
5 1 (1.33%) SSL
5 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) KDB
2 3 (4.00%) Kdb+
2 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) HBase
4 1 (1.33%) Redis
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.67%) Maven
2 4 (5.33%) Gradle
3 2 (2.67%) GCC
3 2 (2.67%) GDB
3 2 (2.67%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) Crucible
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 53 (70.67%) Front Office
2 28 (37.33%) Banking
3 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
4 22 (29.33%) Finance
4 22 (29.33%) Investment Banking
5 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Law
7 3 (4.00%) Back Office
8 2 (2.67%) International Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Developer
2 35 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 22 (29.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 20 (26.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 19 (25.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 19 (25.33%) Senior
6 16 (21.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 16 (21.33%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
7 11 (14.67%) Analyst
8 9 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (10.67%) FIX Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) Electronics Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.00%) C++ Developer
11 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) Middleware
2 8 (10.67%) REST
2 8 (10.67%) XML
3 6 (8.00%) Kafka
3 6 (8.00%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (5.33%) JMS
5 2 (2.67%) .NET
5 2 (2.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 2 (2.67%) STL
5 2 (2.67%) Web Services
6 1 (1.33%) Akka
6 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.33%) ReactiveX
6 1 (1.33%) Swing
6 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (33.33%) Derivative
3 24 (32.00%) Equities
4 19 (25.33%) Algorithms
5 18 (24.00%) TWAP
5 18 (24.00%) VWAP
6 10 (13.33%) Fixed Income
7 8 (10.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
9 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
11 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
11 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (1.33%) Eurex
12 1 (1.33%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 10 (13.33%) Unix
3 2 (2.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (61.33%) Electronic Trading
2 43 (57.33%) Low Latency
3 33 (44.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 29 (38.67%) Multithreading
5 23 (30.67%) Smart Order Routing
6 20 (26.67%) TDD
7 18 (24.00%) Design Patterns
8 17 (22.67%) Garbage Collection
9 16 (21.33%) Agile
9 16 (21.33%) Quantitative Trading
10 15 (20.00%) OO
10 15 (20.00%) UML
11 11 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
13 8 (10.67%) Analytics
13 8 (10.67%) Scrum
14 7 (9.33%) DevOps
14 7 (9.33%) Kanban
14 7 (9.33%) Quantitative Finance
14 7 (9.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (62.67%) Java
2 22 (29.33%) SQL
3 18 (24.00%) Python
4 12 (16.00%) C#
5 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.67%) C++
7 4 (5.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.67%) Rust
9 1 (1.33%) Clojure
9 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.33%) Perl
9 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) EMIR
2 3 (4.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Grafana
2 6 (8.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (1.33%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.33%) Control-M
5 1 (1.33%) Kibana
5 1 (1.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Bloomberg
1 12 (16.00%) Solace
2 10 (13.33%) Charles River
3 5 (6.67%) Splunk
3 5 (6.67%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.33%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.33%) Refinitiv
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.00%) NYFIX
6 2 (2.67%) Citrix
6 2 (2.67%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.33%) FIS
7 1 (1.33%) Murex
7 1 (1.33%) Radianz
7 1 (1.33%) Sybase
7 1 (1.33%) Trayport