FIX Protocol Contracts

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 460 463 446
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +180
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 60 119 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 1.33% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 106 243
10th Percentile £500 £538 £550
25th Percentile £600 £625 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £751 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -2.26%
75th Percentile £804 £850 £738
90th Percentile £913 £1,250 £837
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £356 -
% change year-on-year +82.58% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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

FIX Protocol
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

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 9 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 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 -2 59 £715 -4.73% 107
London -24 54 £715 -4.73% 106
Work from Home +23 22 £650 -18.75% 19
UK excluding London +64 3 £650 +82.58% 37
Midlands +22 2 £650 +82.58%
North of England - 2 £650 -
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 £650 -
South West - 1 £300 - 1

FIX Protocol
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 (3.33%) IIS
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (3.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.67%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.67%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (13.33%) Multicast
3 5 (8.33%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
4 2 (3.33%) DNS
4 2 (3.33%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) HTTP
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.67%) BGP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.67%) HSRP
5 1 (1.67%) IGMP
5 1 (1.67%) IPsec
5 1 (1.67%) OSPF
5 1 (1.67%) Unicast
5 1 (1.67%) VLAN
5 1 (1.67%) VRRP
5 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) KDB
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) JMeter
2 9 (15.00%) LoadRunner
3 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.33%) ERwin
5 2 (3.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.67%) JIRA
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (53.33%) Banking
2 24 (40.00%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Investment Banking
4 11 (18.33%) Front Office
5 8 (13.33%) Back Office
6 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
7 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Developer
2 28 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 17 (28.33%) Analyst
5 12 (20.00%) Senior
6 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 10 (16.67%) Test Analyst
7 9 (15.00%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (13.33%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) QA Analyst
8 8 (13.33%) QA Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) QA Test Analyst
8 8 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) Test Engineer
9 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Senior Flex Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Applications Support
11 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Kafka
2 5 (8.33%) FpML
3 3 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.33%) JSON
4 2 (3.33%) Middleware
4 2 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.33%) XML
5 1 (1.67%) HTML
5 1 (1.67%) HTML5
5 1 (1.67%) React
5 1 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Equities
2 17 (28.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (20.00%) Derivative
4 9 (15.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (10.00%) State Machine
6 5 (8.33%) Algorithms
7 4 (6.67%) Fixed Income
8 3 (5.00%) Eurex
8 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
8 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
9 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.33%) Reference Data
9 2 (3.33%) TWAP
9 2 (3.33%) VWAP
10 1 (1.67%) Bitcoin
10 1 (1.67%) Clustering
10 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.67%) Linux
2 11 (18.33%) 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 33 (55.00%) Low Latency
2 28 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
3 18 (30.00%) Smart Order Routing
4 15 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 10 (16.67%) Stress Testing
6 8 (13.33%) Market Making
7 7 (11.67%) Order Management
8 5 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
8 5 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (6.67%) Agile
9 4 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.67%) DevOps
9 4 (6.67%) E-Commerce
9 4 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
10 3 (5.00%) Business Analysis
10 3 (5.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) Java
2 18 (30.00%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) Bash
3 11 (18.33%) SQL
4 8 (13.33%) VB
5 4 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (5.00%) Perl
7 2 (3.33%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) EMIR
2 3 (5.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Rundeck
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) ION Trading
2 6 (10.00%) Solace
3 5 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 3 (5.00%) CQG
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) Patsystems
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.00%) Reuters
4 3 (5.00%) Trayport
5 2 (3.33%) Sparx
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.67%) Sybase
6 1 (1.67%) Tradeweb