FIX Protocol Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 397 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.010% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.58% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £715 £751 £650
% change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -2.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the UK excluding London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK excluding London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK excluding London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK excluding London

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +22 2 £650 +82.58% 60
North of England - 2 £650 - 65
Yorkshire - 2 £650 - 28
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 32
South West - 1 £300 - 37
FIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ERwin
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FpML
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Conceptual Models
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
1 2 (66.67%) RDF
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sparx