FIX Protocol Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 282 305 399
Rank change year-on-year +23 +94 +172
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 22 40 78
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 1.09% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 39 65
10th Percentile £593 £615 -
25th Percentile £600 £731 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £740 £1,250 £863
90th Percentile £900 - -
UK median daily rate £715 £751 £650
% change year-on-year -4.73% +15.46% -2.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FIX Protocol
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FIX Protocol trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FIX Protocol.

FIX Protocol daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

FIX Protocol daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.55%) HSRP
2 1 (4.55%) IGMP
2 1 (4.55%) IPsec
2 1 (4.55%) Multicast
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) Unicast
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VRRP
2 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 19 (86.36%) Banking
2 13 (59.09%) Investment Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 19 (86.36%) Java Developer
3 18 (81.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 18 (81.82%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 7 (31.82%) Senior
5 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
5 6 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (22.73%) Senior Flex Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Modeller
7 1 (4.55%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.55%) FpML
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) HTML5
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Derivative
1 11 (50.00%) Equities
2 5 (22.73%) State Machine
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Electronic Trading
1 19 (86.36%) Low Latency
2 17 (77.27%) Smart Order Routing
3 12 (54.55%) Algorithmic Trading
4 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
5 5 (22.73%) Concurrent Programming
5 5 (22.73%) Order Management
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
7 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
7 1 (4.55%) Capacity Management
7 1 (4.55%) Data Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.55%) Functional Programming
7 1 (4.55%) Logical Data Model
7 1 (4.55%) Market Making
7 1 (4.55%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Ontologies
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Management
7 1 (4.55%) Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (4.55%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ION Trading
1 5 (22.73%) Solace
2 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Refinitiv
2 1 (4.55%) Sparx