FIX Protocol Contracts

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FIX Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 452 617
Rank change year-on-year -27 +165 -125
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 119 280 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 2.01% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 244 193
10th Percentile £538 £550 £525
25th Percentile £625 £588 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £775
90th Percentile £1,250 £837 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £356 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIX Protocol is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -16 118 £750 +15.42% 48
London -35 116 £751 +15.46% 47
Work from Home +94 41 £788 +21.15% 13
UK excluding London - 2 £356 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1

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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 13 (10.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) CMS
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (9.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (12.61%) ION MarketView
2 12 (10.08%) ION Anvil
3 3 (2.52%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.84%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.36%) AWS
1 4 (3.36%) WhatsApp
2 3 (2.52%) Azure
3 1 (0.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (0.84%) Contentful
3 1 (0.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (2.52%) Internet
3 2 (1.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.84%) FTP
4 1 (0.84%) HTTP
4 1 (0.84%) Multicast
4 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.88%) KDB
3 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.36%) MySQL
3 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.52%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) JIRA
2 11 (9.24%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.68%) Git
4 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.84%) Gatling
5 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.84%) JMeter
5 1 (0.84%) Selenium
5 1 (0.84%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (55.46%) Finance
2 63 (52.94%) Banking
3 41 (34.45%) Investment Banking
4 24 (20.17%) Front Office
5 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (12.61%) Social Skills
7 6 (5.04%) Back Office
8 3 (2.52%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.84%) French Language
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) Developer
2 23 (19.33%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.49%) Business Analyst
4 19 (15.97%) Analyst
5 15 (12.61%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Quantitative Developer
7 13 (10.92%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 12 (10.08%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 12 (10.08%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 12 (10.08%) Lead
9 10 (8.40%) Technical Leader
10 9 (7.56%) Senior
11 8 (6.72%) Applications Support
11 8 (6.72%) Project Manager
12 7 (5.88%) FIX Business Analyst
12 7 (5.88%) Support Engineer
13 6 (5.04%) Financial Services Project Manager
13 6 (5.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) XML
2 7 (5.88%) HTML
3 6 (5.04%) Middleware
3 6 (5.04%) Rendezvous
4 5 (4.20%) CSS
4 5 (4.20%) pytest
5 4 (3.36%) HTML5
5 4 (3.36%) Kafka
5 4 (3.36%) Spring
5 4 (3.36%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (3.36%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.52%) ADO
6 3 (2.52%) Node.js
7 2 (1.68%) React
7 2 (1.68%) RESTful
7 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.84%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.84%) Pandas
8 1 (0.84%) REST
8 1 (0.84%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (37.82%) Fixed Income
2 37 (31.09%) Derivative
3 25 (21.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (4.20%) Equities
5 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.36%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.68%) Clustering
8 2 (1.68%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.68%) Wiki
9 1 (0.84%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.84%) EFT
9 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 47 (39.50%) Linux
2 39 (32.77%) Unix
3 6 (5.04%) Windows
4 4 (3.36%) CentOS
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) Electronic Trading
2 42 (35.29%) Algorithmic Trading
3 39 (32.77%) Low Latency
4 18 (15.13%) Agile
5 17 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 16 (13.45%) Risk Management
7 15 (12.61%) Capacity Management
7 15 (12.61%) Change Management
7 15 (12.61%) High Availability
8 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.24%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.24%) UML
10 7 (5.88%) E-Commerce
10 7 (5.88%) OO
10 7 (5.88%) Project Management
10 7 (5.88%) SDLC
11 6 (5.04%) Business Analysis
11 6 (5.04%) TDD
12 5 (4.20%) Requirements Analysis
12 5 (4.20%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.82%) Java
2 35 (29.41%) SQL
3 17 (14.29%) Python
4 16 (13.45%) C#
5 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.04%) Bash
7 5 (4.20%) Perl
8 4 (3.36%) C++
8 4 (3.36%) PHP
8 4 (3.36%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.36%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.84%) Clojure
10 1 (0.84%) Groovy
10 1 (0.84%) Scala
10 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) Degree
2 12 (10.08%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.24%) CCNA
4 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) QA
2 12 (10.08%) MiFID
3 8 (6.72%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (6.72%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Ansible
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (21.85%) ION Trading
2 17 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 13 (10.92%) MarketAxess
3 13 (10.92%) Tradeweb
4 12 (10.08%) Cisco
5 9 (7.56%) TIBCO
6 8 (6.72%) Solace
7 7 (5.88%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.04%) BT
9 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.52%) Murex
10 3 (2.52%) Sybase
11 2 (1.68%) Oracle
11 2 (1.68%) Reuters
11 2 (1.68%) Splunk
12 1 (0.84%) Azul
12 1 (0.84%) FactSet
12 1 (0.84%) Informatica
12 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow