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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 299 244
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 +92
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 79 79 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.52% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 2.03% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 48 158
10th Percentile £456 £446 -
25th Percentile £519 £518 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +10.24%
75th Percentile £819 £902 £769
90th Percentile £955 £927 £950
England median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +12.00%

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 3,760 3,886 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.18% 25.66% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 2,537 3,706
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -7 13 £645 -11.03% 14
South London - 2 £850 - 1
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 (2.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.06%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.06%) thinkFolio
3 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.59%) Azure
2 4 (5.06%) AWS
2 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (5.06%) Serverless
3 2 (2.53%) GitHub
3 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.27%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) Multicast
2 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.59%) tcpdump
3 6 (7.59%) Wireshark
4 5 (6.33%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (1.27%) SSL
5 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (11.39%) KDB
2 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.59%) Kdb+
4 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.27%) HBase
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.86%) Maven
3 6 (7.59%) GCC
3 6 (7.59%) GDB
4 4 (5.06%) Gradle
5 3 (3.80%) Git
6 2 (2.53%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.53%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.27%) Crucible
7 1 (1.27%) GitLab
7 1 (1.27%) JIRA
7 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 52 (65.82%) Front Office
2 40 (50.63%) Social Skills
3 35 (44.30%) Banking
4 26 (32.91%) Finance
5 21 (26.58%) Investment Banking
6 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.59%) International Banking
8 3 (3.80%) Law
9 2 (2.53%) Back Office
9 2 (2.53%) Legal
9 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Developer
2 26 (32.91%) Java Developer
3 11 (13.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Senior
6 8 (10.13%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) C++ Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.58%) Middleware
2 12 (15.19%) REST
3 10 (12.66%) Ultra Messaging
4 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (8.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 7 (8.86%) STL
5 7 (8.86%) XML
6 6 (7.59%) .NET
6 6 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.33%) Kafka
8 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.06%) JSON
9 2 (2.53%) JMS
9 2 (2.53%) MyBatis
9 2 (2.53%) RESTful
9 2 (2.53%) Swing
10 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (1.27%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (1.27%) QuickFIX
Miscellaneous
1 42 (53.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (25.32%) Algorithms
3 19 (24.05%) Fixed Income
4 18 (22.78%) Derivative
5 15 (18.99%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (17.72%) Cloud Native
7 11 (13.92%) Equities
8 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
8 7 (8.86%) TWAP
8 7 (8.86%) VWAP
9 6 (7.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
11 4 (5.06%) Reference Data
11 4 (5.06%) Replication
12 3 (3.80%) Hedge funds
12 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (2.53%) Clustering
13 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
13 2 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (45.57%) Linux
2 6 (7.59%) Unix
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) Low Latency
2 40 (50.63%) Electronic Trading
3 27 (34.18%) Multithreading
4 25 (31.65%) CI/CD
5 24 (30.38%) Algorithmic Trading
6 23 (29.11%) DevOps
7 21 (26.58%) Agile
8 20 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (17.72%) Observability
10 13 (16.46%) Design Patterns
11 12 (15.19%) High Availability
11 12 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (13.92%) Smart Order Routing
13 10 (12.66%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
13 10 (12.66%) Event-Driven
13 10 (12.66%) High-Frequency Trading
13 10 (12.66%) Order Management
13 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.04%) Java
1 34 (43.04%) Python
2 25 (31.65%) PowerShell
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 14 (17.72%) C#
5 11 (13.92%) Bash
5 11 (13.92%) C++
6 1 (1.27%) Clojure
6 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.27%) Rust
6 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) MiFID
1 7 (8.86%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) EMIR
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.78%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.39%) Grafana
3 9 (11.39%) Kibana
3 9 (11.39%) logstash
3 9 (11.39%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (1.27%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
5 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Solace
2 11 (13.92%) TIBCO
3 9 (11.39%) Bloomberg
4 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.33%) Refinitiv
6 4 (5.06%) Portware
7 3 (3.80%) NYFIX
7 3 (3.80%) Oracle
7 3 (3.80%) Splunk
8 2 (2.53%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.27%) Azul
9 1 (1.27%) Calypso
9 1 (1.27%) Charles River
9 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.27%) Murex
9 1 (1.27%) Radianz
9 1 (1.27%) Reuters
9 1 (1.27%) Sophis
9 1 (1.27%) Sybase
9 1 (1.27%) Trayport