FIX Connectivity Contracts

FIX Connectivity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring FIX Connectivity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIX Connectivity 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 505 564 682
Rank change year-on-year +59 +118 +136
Contract jobs citing FIX Connectivity 15 18 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.041% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.32% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 35
10th Percentile - £613 £565
25th Percentile £500 £794 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £850 £863
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

FIX Connectivity falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

FIX Connectivity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FIX Connectivity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Connectivity in the UK

FIX Connectivity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FIX Connectivity in the UK

FIX Connectivity
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Connectivity within the UK 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
England +53 14 £550 -31.25% 5
London +34 14 £550 -31.25% 5
Work from Home +46 12 - - 1

FIX Connectivity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Fidessa
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (93.33%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) FIX Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) FIX Support Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) FIX Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Equities
2 11 (73.33%) Derivative
3 3 (20.00%) Eurex
4 1 (6.67%) Bitcoin
4 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) CentOS
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Rocky
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Debian
3 1 (6.67%) Fedora
3 1 (6.67%) Solaris
3 1 (6.67%) SUSE
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 8
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 12 (80.00%) Low Latency
3 11 (73.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 11 (73.33%) Smart Order Routing
4 3 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 1 (6.67%) Agile
6 1 (6.67%) Backtesting
6 1 (6.67%) BDD
6 1 (6.67%) EAI
6 1 (6.67%) Functional Programming
6 1 (6.67%) Multithreading
6 1 (6.67%) OO
6 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Perl
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Rundeck
1 3 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (20.00%) CQG
1 3 (20.00%) ION Trading
1 3 (20.00%) Patsystems
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (20.00%) Reuters
1 3 (20.00%) Trayport
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle