FIX Protocol Job Trends in England

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring FIX Protocol skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 542 645
Rank change year-on-year -111 +103 -133
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 105 89 104
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 1.18% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 83 54 69
10th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £53,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £108,750 £127,188 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £152,500 £143,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £102,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% +6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,828 7,553 14,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 17.48% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,882 4,996 9,334
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,212 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

FIX Protocol job vacancy trend in England

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FIX Protocol.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FIX Protocol

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in England

FIX Protocol
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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
London -43 105 £100,000 -9.09% 196
FIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (8.57%) Confluence
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.95%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (20.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.76%) AWS
2 21 (20.00%) Azure
3 10 (9.52%) GCP
4 8 (7.62%) GitHub
5 7 (6.67%) WeChat
6 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (21.90%) Multicast
2 21 (20.00%) FIX Connectivity
3 16 (15.24%) Firewall
4 10 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 9 (8.57%) DNS
6 8 (7.62%) DHCP
7 1 (0.95%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.62%) KDB
3 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (26.67%) JIRA
2 14 (13.33%) Git
3 6 (5.71%) Maven
4 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.86%) Gradle
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
5 3 (2.86%) Mockito
6 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
General
1 84 (80.00%) Finance
2 36 (34.29%) Banking
2 36 (34.29%) Front Office
3 23 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 12 (11.43%) Investment Banking
6 10 (9.52%) Back Office
7 8 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (7.62%) Spanish Language
8 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (6.67%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (5.71%) Law
10 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.86%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (1.90%) iGaming
12 1 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Analyst
2 26 (24.76%) Developer
3 21 (20.00%) Senior
3 21 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 17 (16.19%) Software Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Python Software Engineer
6 11 (10.48%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (9.52%) Business Analyst
7 10 (9.52%) Lead
8 9 (8.57%) Applications Support
8 9 (8.57%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (8.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) Business Manager
9 8 (7.62%) Product Analyst
9 8 (7.62%) Product Business Analyst
9 8 (7.62%) Product Manager
9 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 12 (11.43%) pytest
2 9 (8.57%) Kafka
2 9 (8.57%) Spring
2 9 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.62%) .NET
4 7 (6.67%) REST
5 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.76%) React
6 5 (4.76%) RESTful
7 3 (2.86%) FIXML
7 3 (2.86%) FpML
7 3 (2.86%) Terraform
8 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.90%) Middleware
8 2 (1.90%) SignalR
8 2 (1.90%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.95%) jQuery
9 1 (0.95%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 43 (40.95%) Equities
2 39 (37.14%) Fixed Income
3 22 (20.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (20.00%) Derivative
5 16 (15.24%) Algorithms
5 16 (15.24%) Eurex
6 15 (14.29%) Onboarding
7 14 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (7.62%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (6.67%) Management Information System
10 7 (6.67%) Virtual Team
11 5 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
13 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
14 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (1.90%) Sports Betting
15 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (54.29%) Linux
2 17 (16.19%) Unix
3 9 (8.57%) Windows
4 8 (7.62%) CentOS
4 8 (7.62%) Rocky
5 5 (4.76%) Solaris
5 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.05%) Low Latency
2 39 (37.14%) Agile
3 34 (32.38%) Electronic Trading
4 33 (31.43%) Computer Science
4 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (25.71%) SDLC
6 25 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 24 (22.86%) Project Delivery
8 21 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 21 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (17.14%) Business Analysis
10 18 (17.14%) Client Onboarding
10 18 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (16.19%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 16 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (14.29%) ITIL
14 14 (13.33%) DevOps
15 13 (12.38%) Decision-Making
15 13 (12.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.86%) Python
2 28 (26.67%) Java
3 26 (24.76%) C++
3 26 (24.76%) SQL
4 11 (10.48%) Perl
5 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.62%) Bash
6 8 (7.62%) Ruby
7 7 (6.67%) C#
8 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.76%) Tcl
9 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) Degree
2 14 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.62%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Ansible
2 3 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Oracle
2 16 (15.24%) Bloomberg
2 16 (15.24%) CQG
2 16 (15.24%) ION Trading
2 16 (15.24%) Patsystems
2 16 (15.24%) Reuters
2 16 (15.24%) Trayport
3 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.57%) FIS
4 9 (8.57%) SunGard
5 8 (7.62%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.71%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.71%) IBM
6 6 (5.71%) Solace
6 6 (5.71%) Sybase
7 5 (4.76%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.90%) Progress
9 1 (0.95%) Databricks
9 1 (0.95%) Google