FIX Protocol Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 349 390
Rank change year-on-year -100 +41 -
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% 0.040% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £300 £356
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -15.73% -
UK median daily rate £680 £715 £775
% change year-on-year -4.90% -7.74% +19.23%

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 4,074 2,489 3,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.57% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,699 1,714 2,195
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £600
90th Percentile £677 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 93 236
10th Percentile £35.88 £33.91 £23.38
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £80.81 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FIX Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIX Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIX Protocol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FIX Protocol

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 18 June 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
Yorkshire - 1 £750 -
North of England - 1 £750 -
FIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) XBRL
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft