FIX Protocol Contracts in London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 286 233
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 +166
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 60 107 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.61% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.35% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 93 238
10th Percentile £500 £530 £538
25th Percentile £613 £650 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +19.23% -5.45%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £738
90th Percentile £914 £1,250 £845
England median daily rate £715 £763 £650
% change year-on-year -6.26% +17.35% -5.45%

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 3,234 4,561 6,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.13% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 3,396 5,096
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £723 £700 £725
90th Percentile £830 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 39
10th Percentile £32.00 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.99 £41.63
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -36.57% +49.30%
75th Percentile £54.69 £63.77 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £84.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in London.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol in London.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

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 31 May 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 +9 9 £800 - 10
South London - 3 £625 - 4
FIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.33%) GitHub
1 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (1.67%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (13.33%) Multicast
3 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.67%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.00%) HTTP
6 2 (3.33%) DHCP
6 2 (3.33%) DNS
6 2 (3.33%) Firewall
7 1 (1.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) KDB
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Hazelcast
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) JMeter
2 9 (15.00%) LoadRunner
3 7 (11.67%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.33%) git-flow
6 2 (3.33%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.67%) GCC
7 1 (1.67%) GDB
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 31 (51.67%) Banking
2 28 (46.67%) Finance
3 15 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 12 (20.00%) Front Office
5 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Back Office
7 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Developer
2 32 (53.33%) Java Developer
3 16 (26.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 16 (26.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 15 (25.00%) Analyst
5 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 10 (16.67%) Test Analyst
6 9 (15.00%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (13.33%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) QA Analyst
7 8 (13.33%) QA Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) QA Test Analyst
7 8 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) Senior
7 8 (13.33%) Test Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Middleware
2 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.00%) FpML
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (3.33%) REST
3 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.67%) MyBatis
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) STL
4 1 (1.67%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (31.67%) Equities
3 12 (20.00%) Derivative
4 10 (16.67%) Fixed Income
4 10 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (11.67%) Algorithms
6 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (5.00%) Clustering
7 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (5.00%) Eurex
7 3 (5.00%) State Machine
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (3.33%) TWAP
8 2 (3.33%) VWAP
9 1 (1.67%) Bitcoin
9 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (41.67%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (8.33%) Unix
4 3 (5.00%) CentOS
5 2 (3.33%) Rocky
6 1 (1.67%) Debian
6 1 (1.67%) Fedora
6 1 (1.67%) Solaris
6 1 (1.67%) SUSE
6 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Low Latency
2 29 (48.33%) Electronic Trading
3 16 (26.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 12 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 12 (20.00%) Smart Order Routing
5 11 (18.33%) Market Making
6 10 (16.67%) Agile
6 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (16.67%) Stress Testing
7 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.67%) DevOps
9 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
9 6 (10.00%) Order Management
10 5 (8.33%) High Availability
10 5 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
11 4 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 47 (78.33%) Java
2 21 (35.00%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) Bash
4 9 (15.00%) SQL
5 8 (13.33%) VB
6 7 (11.67%) C++
7 4 (6.67%) C#
8 3 (5.00%) Perl
8 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) CBAP
4 1 (1.67%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) EMIR
2 1 (1.67%) FINRA
2 1 (1.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Rundeck
2 3 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) logstash
4 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 7 (11.67%) Solace
3 6 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 3 (5.00%) CQG
4 3 (5.00%) Patsystems
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.00%) Refinitiv
4 3 (5.00%) Reuters
4 3 (5.00%) Trayport
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.67%) Calypso
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) FactSet
6 1 (1.67%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) Murex