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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 302 230
Rank change year-on-year +14 -72 +119
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 84 78 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.50% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.92% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 175
10th Percentile £456 £410 £540
25th Percentile £519 £523 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £910 £750
90th Percentile £925 £932 £950
England median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +5.66%

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 3,703 4,057 5,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.51% 26.16% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,524 2,654 3,963
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £32.99 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £38.31 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £47.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.34% -18.53% -
75th Percentile £63.19 £60.76 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £73.70 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 +2 15 £648 -10.69% 35
South London - 6 £850 -
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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Aladdin
1 4 (4.76%) Fidessa
1 4 (4.76%) thinkFolio
2 1 (1.19%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.14%) Azure
2 4 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (4.76%) GitHub
2 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (4.76%) Serverless
3 3 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.19%) Figma
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.24%) Multicast
2 12 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.14%) tcpdump
3 6 (7.14%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.38%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.19%) HTTP
5 1 (1.19%) SSL
5 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (10.71%) KDB
2 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.95%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.19%) HBase
6 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.52%) GCC
2 8 (9.52%) GDB
3 7 (8.33%) Maven
4 4 (4.76%) Git
4 4 (4.76%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.57%) Gradle
5 3 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.38%) git-flow
6 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.19%) Crucible
7 1 (1.19%) GitLab
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 50 (59.52%) Front Office
2 41 (48.81%) Social Skills
3 36 (42.86%) Banking
4 31 (36.90%) Finance
5 20 (23.81%) Investment Banking
6 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (9.52%) International Banking
8 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.38%) Back Office
9 2 (2.38%) Legal
10 1 (1.19%) Advertising
10 1 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (55.95%) Developer
2 26 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 10 (11.90%) C++ Developer
4 9 (10.71%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) .NET Architect
8 4 (4.76%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Architect
8 4 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
10 2 (2.38%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.95%) Middleware
2 10 (11.90%) REST
2 10 (11.90%) Ultra Messaging
3 9 (10.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 9 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (10.71%) STL
4 6 (7.14%) .NET
4 6 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (7.14%) XML
5 5 (5.95%) FpML
6 4 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.76%) JSON
6 4 (4.76%) Kafka
7 3 (3.57%) MyBatis
8 2 (2.38%) RESTful
8 2 (2.38%) Swing
9 1 (1.19%) JMS
9 1 (1.19%) Rendezvous
9 1 (1.19%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (29.76%) Fixed Income
3 21 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 18 (21.43%) Derivative
5 17 (20.24%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (16.67%) Cloud Native
7 10 (11.90%) Data Structures
8 9 (10.71%) Equities
9 8 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (5.95%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (4.76%) Clustering
11 4 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
11 4 (4.76%) Reference Data
11 4 (4.76%) Replication
12 3 (3.57%) Hedge funds
12 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (3.57%) TWAP
12 3 (3.57%) VWAP
13 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (47.62%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Unix
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (65.48%) Low Latency
2 41 (48.81%) Electronic Trading
3 27 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 26 (30.95%) DevOps
4 26 (30.95%) Multithreading
5 25 (29.76%) Agile
6 20 (23.81%) Algorithmic Trading
6 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (21.43%) High Availability
8 17 (20.24%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (16.67%) Observability
11 13 (15.48%) Design Patterns
12 12 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 12 (14.29%) Scrum
12 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 11 (13.10%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
13 11 (13.10%) Kanban
14 10 (11.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) Python
2 35 (41.67%) Java
3 26 (30.95%) PowerShell
4 23 (27.38%) SQL
5 18 (21.43%) C#
5 18 (21.43%) C++
6 11 (13.10%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) Clojure
7 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.19%) Rust
7 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.38%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.19%) CBAP
4 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) MiFID
1 7 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) EMIR
3 1 (1.19%) FINRA
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Prometheus
3 9 (10.71%) Kibana
3 9 (10.71%) logstash
4 8 (9.52%) Grafana
5 3 (3.57%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (1.19%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.19%) Terraform
6 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (40.48%) Solace
2 11 (13.10%) TIBCO
3 10 (11.90%) Bloomberg
4 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.33%) Refinitiv
6 4 (4.76%) Portware
7 3 (3.57%) NYFIX
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
8 2 (2.38%) Calypso
8 2 (2.38%) Murex
8 2 (2.38%) Splunk
9 1 (1.19%) Azul
9 1 (1.19%) Cisco
9 1 (1.19%) Citrix
9 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.19%) FactSet
9 1 (1.19%) Radianz
9 1 (1.19%) Reuters
9 1 (1.19%) Tradeweb
9 1 (1.19%) Trayport