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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 296 235
Rank change year-on-year -19 -61 +29
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 73 55 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.41% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 1.55% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 29 141
10th Percentile £400 £481 £550
25th Percentile £456 £513 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £707 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +1.00% +8.74%
75th Percentile £850 £863 £813
90th Percentile £975 £910 £950
England median daily rate £574 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.69% -7.14% +9.80%

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 3,909 3,541 4,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.06% 26.31% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,634 2,318 3,454
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -10 9 £550 -11.79% 12
South London - 2 £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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Fidessa
2 3 (4.11%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.37%) RMDS
3 1 (1.37%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.22%) AWS
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (4.11%) Azure
3 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.37%) Figma
4 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (13.70%) Multicast
3 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.48%) tcpdump
4 4 (5.48%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.37%) SSL
5 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) KDB
2 6 (8.22%) Kdb+
3 5 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.74%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.37%) HBase
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.22%) Maven
3 5 (6.85%) Gradle
4 4 (5.48%) Git
5 3 (4.11%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.11%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.74%) GCC
6 2 (2.74%) GDB
7 1 (1.37%) Crucible
7 1 (1.37%) JIRA
7 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 52 (71.23%) Front Office
2 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
3 23 (31.51%) Banking
3 23 (31.51%) Finance
4 16 (21.92%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Law
7 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Back Office
8 2 (2.74%) International Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (53.42%) Developer
2 32 (43.84%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 16 (21.92%) Senior
4 15 (20.55%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 15 (20.55%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 12 (16.44%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
5 12 (16.44%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 11 (15.07%) Analyst
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (10.96%) FIX Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Electronics Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Middleware
2 11 (15.07%) REST
2 11 (15.07%) XML
3 9 (12.33%) Ultra Messaging
4 6 (8.22%) Kafka
5 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.48%) .NET
6 4 (5.48%) JMS
6 4 (5.48%) JSON
6 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.11%) RESTful
8 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (2.74%) STL
8 2 (2.74%) Swing
8 2 (2.74%) Web Services
9 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.37%) Akka
9 1 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (1.37%) ReactiveX
Miscellaneous
1 30 (41.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (31.51%) Algorithms
3 19 (26.03%) Derivative
4 18 (24.66%) Equities
5 13 (17.81%) TWAP
5 13 (17.81%) VWAP
6 12 (16.44%) Fixed Income
7 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
8 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
9 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
9 6 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (5.48%) Replication
11 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
13 1 (1.37%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.03%) Linux
2 10 (13.70%) Unix
3 3 (4.11%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.90%) Low Latency
2 40 (54.79%) Electronic Trading
3 29 (39.73%) Multithreading
4 28 (38.36%) Algorithmic Trading
5 18 (24.66%) Agile
6 17 (23.29%) Smart Order Routing
7 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
7 16 (21.92%) TDD
8 15 (20.55%) Design Patterns
9 13 (17.81%) Garbage Collection
10 12 (16.44%) DevOps
10 12 (16.44%) OO
10 12 (16.44%) Quantitative Trading
11 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (15.07%) UML
12 10 (13.70%) Scrum
12 10 (13.70%) Unit Testing
13 9 (12.33%) Concurrent Programming
13 9 (12.33%) Observability
14 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) Java
2 23 (31.51%) SQL
3 20 (27.40%) Python
4 15 (20.55%) PowerShell
5 13 (17.81%) C#
6 5 (6.85%) Bash
7 3 (4.11%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) Clojure
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) Rust
8 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) MiFID
3 3 (4.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Grafana
4 5 (6.85%) Kibana
4 5 (6.85%) logstash
5 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (1.37%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Solace
2 10 (13.70%) Bloomberg
2 10 (13.70%) TIBCO
3 9 (12.33%) Charles River
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Splunk
6 3 (4.11%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.11%) NYFIX
6 3 (4.11%) Refinitiv
7 2 (2.74%) Citrix
7 2 (2.74%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
8 1 (1.37%) Azul
8 1 (1.37%) FIS
8 1 (1.37%) Portware
8 1 (1.37%) Radianz
8 1 (1.37%) Sybase
8 1 (1.37%) Trayport