FIX Protocol Job Trends in the City of London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 150 145
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 +42
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 19 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.82% 0.56% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 1.94% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 22
10th Percentile £63,000 £56,250 £53,450
25th Percentile £85,000 £65,625 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +29.03% -13.89%
75th Percentile £133,000 £137,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £147,500 £97,375
Central London median annual salary £110,000 £103,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.02% +33.87% -13.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 430 775 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 18.64% 29.19% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 364 561 754
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £115,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +6.25%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the City of London

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Multicast
2 2 (10.53%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.26%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Gradle
General
1 13 (68.42%) Front Office
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Back Office
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) C++ Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) FIX Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Java Concurrency
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Derivative
2 7 (36.84%) Algorithms
3 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (26.32%) Equities
4 5 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
5 3 (15.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
7 1 (5.26%) TWAP
7 1 (5.26%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Low Latency
2 9 (47.37%) Electronic Trading
3 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
4 7 (36.84%) Market Making
4 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
5 6 (31.58%) Memory Management
5 6 (31.58%) Multithreading
5 6 (31.58%) Smart Order Routing
6 4 (21.05%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (21.05%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Benchmarking
7 3 (15.79%) Microservices
7 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Research
7 3 (15.79%) SOA
7 3 (15.79%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) AI
8 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
8 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) C++
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Solace