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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 303 232
Rank change year-on-year +15 -71 +133
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 82 76 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.48% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 1.80% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 173
10th Percentile £456 £408 £541
25th Percentile £534 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £838 £907 £750
90th Percentile £925 £932 £950
England median daily rate £700 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%

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 3,573 4,222 5,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.19% 26.79% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 2,777 3,997
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £706
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 34
10th Percentile £31.52 £35.16 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £38.44 £40.20
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -22.86% -5.77%
75th Percentile £62.19 £63.13 £74.66
90th Percentile £87.63 £75.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +3 14 £663 -10.17% 10
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 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Aladdin
1 4 (4.88%) Fidessa
1 4 (4.88%) thinkFolio
2 1 (1.22%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.32%) Azure
2 4 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (4.88%) Serverless
3 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.22%) Figma
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.73%) Multicast
2 12 (14.63%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.32%) tcpdump
3 6 (7.32%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.22%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (1.22%) HTTP
4 1 (1.22%) SSL
4 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (12.20%) KDB
2 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.10%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.22%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.22%) HBase
6 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.76%) GCC
2 8 (9.76%) GDB
3 7 (8.54%) Maven
4 5 (6.10%) Git
5 4 (4.88%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.66%) Gradle
6 3 (3.66%) JIRA
7 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.44%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.44%) git-flow
7 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.22%) Crucible
8 1 (1.22%) GitLab
8 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.22%) Subversion
General
1 45 (54.88%) Front Office
2 41 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 36 (43.90%) Banking
4 29 (35.37%) Finance
5 20 (24.39%) Investment Banking
6 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (9.76%) International Banking
8 3 (3.66%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.44%) Back Office
10 1 (1.22%) Advertising
10 1 (1.22%) Law
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (53.66%) Developer
2 23 (28.05%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.20%) C++ Developer
4 9 (10.98%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Senior
5 8 (9.76%) Python Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) .NET Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
10 2 (2.44%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.93%) Middleware
2 11 (13.41%) REST
3 10 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (12.20%) Ultra Messaging
4 9 (10.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 9 (10.98%) STL
5 6 (7.32%) .NET
5 6 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (7.32%) XML
6 5 (6.10%) FpML
7 4 (4.88%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.88%) JSON
7 4 (4.88%) Kafka
8 3 (3.66%) MyBatis
9 2 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (2.44%) RESTful
9 2 (2.44%) Swing
10 1 (1.22%) JMS
10 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (57.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (31.71%) Fixed Income
3 18 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (20.73%) Algorithms
4 17 (20.73%) Derivative
5 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
6 10 (12.20%) Data Structures
7 9 (10.98%) Equities
8 8 (9.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (4.88%) Clustering
10 4 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
10 4 (4.88%) Reference Data
10 4 (4.88%) Replication
11 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
11 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (2.44%) TWAP
12 2 (2.44%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 42 (51.22%) Linux
2 5 (6.10%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (64.63%) Low Latency
2 42 (51.22%) Electronic Trading
3 27 (32.93%) CI/CD
3 27 (32.93%) DevOps
4 25 (30.49%) Multithreading
5 21 (25.61%) Agile
5 21 (25.61%) Algorithmic Trading
6 20 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (21.95%) High Availability
8 17 (20.73%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (18.29%) Observability
9 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (14.63%) Decision-Making
10 12 (14.63%) Design Patterns
10 12 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 11 (13.41%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
11 11 (13.41%) Event-Driven
11 11 (13.41%) Order Management
12 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.00%) Python
2 32 (39.02%) Java
3 27 (32.93%) PowerShell
4 23 (28.05%) SQL
5 18 (21.95%) C++
6 14 (17.07%) C#
7 11 (13.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.22%) Clojure
8 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.22%) Rust
8 1 (1.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.76%) Degree
2 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.44%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.22%) CBAP
4 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) MiFID
2 3 (3.66%) EMIR
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) FINRA
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (25.61%) ITRS Geneos
2 12 (14.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.20%) Kibana
4 10 (12.20%) logstash
5 8 (9.76%) Grafana
6 3 (3.66%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (1.22%) Ansible
7 1 (1.22%) BladeLogic
7 1 (1.22%) Terraform
7 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (42.68%) Solace
2 11 (13.41%) TIBCO
3 10 (12.20%) Bloomberg
4 7 (8.54%) Refinitiv
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.88%) Portware
7 3 (3.66%) NYFIX
7 3 (3.66%) Oracle
8 2 (2.44%) Calypso
8 2 (2.44%) Murex
8 2 (2.44%) Splunk
9 1 (1.22%) Azul
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco
9 1 (1.22%) Citrix
9 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.22%) FactSet
9 1 (1.22%) Radianz
9 1 (1.22%) Sybase
9 1 (1.22%) Tradeweb
9 1 (1.22%) Trayport