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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 303 258
Rank change year-on-year -25 -45 -22
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 75 50 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.40% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 1.51% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 122
10th Percentile £370 £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 £750 £825 £825
90th Percentile £909 £908 £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 4,180 3,305 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.80% 26.17% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,311 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £544
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.01%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
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 28 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 28 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 -11 9 £506 -32.81% 10
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
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 12 (16.00%) Multicast
3 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.33%) tcpdump
3 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) KDB
2 4 (5.33%) Kdb+
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
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 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.33%) Maven
2 3 (4.00%) Gradle
3 2 (2.67%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) Crucible
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.33%) GCC
4 1 (1.33%) GDB
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
General
1 54 (72.00%) Front Office
2 28 (37.33%) Banking
3 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
4 24 (32.00%) Investment Banking
5 23 (30.67%) Finance
6 11 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.00%) Back Office
8 3 (4.00%) Law
9 2 (2.67%) Legal
9 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) Developer
2 37 (49.33%) 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 10 (13.33%) Analyst
8 8 (10.67%) FIX Analyst
8 8 (10.67%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Electronics Engineer
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%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
12 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Middleware
2 8 (10.67%) REST
2 8 (10.67%) Ultra Messaging
2 8 (10.67%) XML
3 5 (6.67%) Kafka
4 4 (5.33%) JMS
5 2 (2.67%) .NET
5 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 2 (2.67%) Web Services
6 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.33%) FIXML
6 1 (1.33%) FpML
6 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.33%) STL
6 1 (1.33%) Swing
6 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (34.67%) Equities
3 24 (32.00%) Derivative
4 22 (29.33%) Algorithms
5 17 (22.67%) TWAP
5 17 (22.67%) VWAP
6 10 (13.33%) Fixed Income
7 8 (10.67%) Onboarding
8 7 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
10 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
12 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
12 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (1.33%) Eurex
13 1 (1.33%) State Machine
13 1 (1.33%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 9 (12.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 44 (58.67%) Electronic Trading
3 33 (44.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 31 (41.33%) Multithreading
5 22 (29.33%) Smart Order Routing
6 19 (25.33%) TDD
7 17 (22.67%) Design Patterns
8 16 (21.33%) Agile
8 16 (21.33%) Garbage Collection
8 16 (21.33%) Quantitative Trading
9 15 (20.00%) OO
9 15 (20.00%) UML
10 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.67%) Analytics
11 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.67%) Scrum
12 7 (9.33%) Concurrent Programming
12 7 (9.33%) DevOps
12 7 (9.33%) Kanban
12 7 (9.33%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) Java
2 19 (25.33%) SQL
3 17 (22.67%) Python
4 11 (14.67%) C#
5 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.33%) Bash
6 4 (5.33%) C++
7 1 (1.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.33%) Rust
7 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
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 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Grafana
2 6 (8.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.33%) Control-M
6 1 (1.33%) Kibana
6 1 (1.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Bloomberg
2 11 (14.67%) Solace
3 10 (13.33%) Charles River
4 5 (6.67%) TIBCO
5 4 (5.33%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.33%) Refinitiv
5 4 (5.33%) Splunk
6 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.00%) NYFIX
7 2 (2.67%) Citrix
7 2 (2.67%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.33%) FIS
8 1 (1.33%) Murex
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) Sybase
8 1 (1.33%) Trayport