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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 545 676
Rank change year-on-year -92 +131 -115
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 107 101 83
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 1.25% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 83 59 60
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £116,250 £124,375 £110,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% +3.13%

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 10,775 8,055 14,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.18% 18.41% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,030 5,396 10,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%

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 August 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 August 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 -45 107 £100,000 +5.26% 139
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 (8.41%) Confluence
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.17%) AWS
2 23 (21.50%) Azure
3 9 (8.41%) GCP
4 7 (6.54%) WeChat
5 6 (5.61%) GitHub
6 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.56%) Multicast
2 16 (14.95%) FIX Connectivity
3 14 (13.08%) Firewall
4 7 (6.54%) DNS
4 7 (6.54%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.48%) KDB
2 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.74%) Metadata
3 4 (3.74%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (26.17%) JIRA
2 12 (11.21%) Git
3 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) Maven
4 4 (3.74%) ERwin
5 3 (2.80%) Gradle
6 2 (1.87%) JUnit
6 2 (1.87%) Mockito
General
1 87 (81.31%) Finance
2 41 (38.32%) Front Office
3 34 (31.78%) Banking
4 27 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
6 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
7 9 (8.41%) Back Office
8 8 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (7.48%) Spanish Language
9 7 (6.54%) Financial Institution
9 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (6.54%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (5.61%) Law
11 2 (1.87%) iGaming
11 2 (1.87%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.93%) Games
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Developer
2 26 (24.30%) Analyst
3 25 (23.36%) Senior
4 17 (15.89%) Software Engineer
5 16 (14.95%) Support Analyst
6 13 (12.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) Python Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (10.28%) Lead
8 11 (10.28%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (9.35%) Applications Support
9 10 (9.35%) Business Analyst
9 10 (9.35%) Java Developer
9 10 (9.35%) Senior Developer
10 9 (8.41%) Business Support Analyst
11 8 (7.48%) Business Manager
11 8 (7.48%) Product Analyst
11 8 (7.48%) Product Business Analyst
11 8 (7.48%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 12 (11.21%) pytest
2 10 (9.35%) Kafka
3 9 (8.41%) .NET
4 7 (6.54%) REST
4 7 (6.54%) Spring
4 7 (6.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.61%) FpML
5 6 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.67%) React
6 5 (4.67%) RESTful
6 5 (4.67%) XML
7 4 (3.74%) JSON
7 4 (3.74%) XML Schema
8 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.87%) eBPF
8 2 (1.87%) FIXML
8 2 (1.87%) SignalR
8 2 (1.87%) Terraform
8 2 (1.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 41 (38.32%) Equities
2 39 (36.45%) Fixed Income
3 25 (23.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (21.50%) Derivative
5 16 (14.95%) Algorithms
6 14 (13.08%) Eurex
7 13 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (12.15%) Onboarding
8 10 (9.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (7.48%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
10 7 (6.54%) Virtual Team
11 6 (5.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
12 5 (4.67%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (4.67%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (3.74%) e-Learning
14 3 (2.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 55 (51.40%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Unix
3 9 (8.41%) Windows
4 6 (5.61%) CentOS
4 6 (5.61%) Rocky
5 3 (2.80%) Solaris
5 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.06%) Low Latency
2 43 (40.19%) Agile
3 37 (34.58%) Electronic Trading
4 35 (32.71%) Computer Science
5 34 (31.78%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (26.17%) Software Engineering
7 27 (25.23%) SDLC
8 24 (22.43%) Project Delivery
9 23 (21.50%) Mathematics
10 22 (20.56%) Business Analysis
10 22 (20.56%) Mentoring
11 19 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (17.76%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (17.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 16 (14.95%) Client Onboarding
12 16 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (12.15%) Decision-Making
13 13 (12.15%) DevOps
13 13 (12.15%) ITIL
13 13 (12.15%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.93%) Python
2 27 (25.23%) Java
2 27 (25.23%) SQL
3 25 (23.36%) C++
4 9 (8.41%) Perl
5 8 (7.48%) C#
6 7 (6.54%) Bash
7 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.61%) Ruby
8 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.67%) Tcl
9 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.87%) Rust
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (22.43%) Degree
2 16 (14.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Ansible
2 3 (2.80%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Bloomberg
2 14 (13.08%) CQG
2 14 (13.08%) ION Trading
2 14 (13.08%) Patsystems
2 14 (13.08%) Reuters
2 14 (13.08%) Trayport
3 11 (10.28%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.41%) FIS
4 9 (8.41%) SunGard
5 6 (5.61%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.61%) Solace
5 6 (5.61%) Sybase
6 5 (4.67%) IBM
6 5 (4.67%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.74%) Sparx
8 2 (1.87%) Progress
9 1 (0.93%) Databricks
9 1 (0.93%) Google