FIX Protocol Job Trends in Central London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 168 147
Rank change year-on-year +46 -21 +68
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 18 16 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.76% 0.49% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 1.78% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 27
10th Percentile £78,000 £56,250 £58,200
25th Percentile £86,250 £84,375 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £116,000 £103,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% +33.87% -13.89%
75th Percentile £137,000 £123,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £147,500 £103,000
London median annual salary £112,500 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +32.35% +3.03% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 453 901 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 19.23% 27.68% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 383 633 815
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,400 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,875 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £105,625
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £116,250
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% -

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in Central London

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing FIX Protocol.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in Central London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in Central London

FIX Protocol
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +47 18 £116,000 +16.00% 20
FIX Protocol
London

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Multicast
2 2 (11.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.56%) KDB
2 1 (5.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Gradle
General
1 12 (66.67%) Front Office
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Back Office
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) C++ Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) FIX Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Derivative
2 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (27.78%) Equities
4 5 (27.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
5 3 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
7 1 (5.56%) TWAP
7 1 (5.56%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Low Latency
2 9 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
3 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 7 (38.89%) Market Making
4 7 (38.89%) Mathematics
5 6 (33.33%) Memory Management
5 6 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 6 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
6 4 (22.22%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (22.22%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Benchmarking
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
7 3 (16.67%) SOA
7 3 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) AI
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
8 2 (11.11%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Solace