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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 623 507
Rank change year-on-year +93 -116 +258
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 100 99 188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.16% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 0.79% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 68 60 156
10th Percentile £77,625 £52,125 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £65,938 £72,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £127,500 £116,250 £92,813
90th Percentile £153,250 £145,250 £123,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -11.11%

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 6,918 12,457 13,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.80% 20.43% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,577 7,513 10,776
10th Percentile £36,900 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,450 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 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
London +44 96 £112,500 +32.35% 32
North West - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
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 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.00%) Confluence
3 4 (4.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.00%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) AWS
2 7 (7.00%) Azure
3 5 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.00%) GitHub
6 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.00%) n8n
6 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.00%) Multicast
2 4 (4.00%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (3.00%) SSL
3 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.00%) DHCP
5 1 (1.00%) DNS
5 1 (1.00%) FTP
5 1 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (9.00%) KDB
3 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.00%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Power BI
6 1 (1.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 4 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.00%) Babel
3 2 (2.00%) VisualVM
3 2 (2.00%) webpack
3 2 (2.00%) YourKit
4 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 65 (65.00%) Finance
2 41 (41.00%) Front Office
3 31 (31.00%) Banking
4 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
5 16 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (14.00%) Law
7 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.00%) Back Office
9 4 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.00%) Advertising
11 1 (1.00%) Games
11 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (41.00%) Developer
2 23 (23.00%) Senior
3 21 (21.00%) Software Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) Analyst
5 17 (17.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 15 (15.00%) Lead
6 15 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (14.00%) React Developer
8 13 (13.00%) Java Engineer
9 10 (10.00%) C++ Developer
9 10 (10.00%) Support Analyst
10 9 (9.00%) C# Developer
10 9 (9.00%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Python Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (7.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
12 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.00%) React
2 16 (16.00%) WebSockets
3 14 (14.00%) Highcharts JS
3 14 (14.00%) OpenFin
4 10 (10.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 9 (9.00%) Middleware
6 8 (8.00%) Kafka
6 8 (8.00%) pytest
7 7 (7.00%) .NET
7 7 (7.00%) NHibernate
8 5 (5.00%) Pandas
9 4 (4.00%) CSS
9 4 (4.00%) Rendezvous
10 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.00%) HTML
10 3 (3.00%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (3.00%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (3.00%) RESTful
10 3 (3.00%) Spring
10 3 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.00%) Fixed Income
2 26 (26.00%) Derivative
3 22 (22.00%) Equities
4 20 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (16.00%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (4.00%) Eurex
8 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
9 3 (3.00%) TWAP
9 3 (3.00%) VWAP
10 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 51 (51.00%) Linux
2 16 (16.00%) Unix
3 12 (12.00%) Windows
4 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.00%) Low Latency
2 40 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
3 32 (32.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Software Engineering
5 25 (25.00%) SDLC
6 24 (24.00%) Computer Science
7 21 (21.00%) Analytics
8 19 (19.00%) Containerisation
9 18 (18.00%) Algorithmic Trading
10 17 (17.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (15.00%) Mathematics
11 15 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
12 14 (14.00%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (14.00%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (14.00%) Visualisation
12 14 (14.00%) Workflow
13 13 (13.00%) Microservices
14 12 (12.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.00%) Python
2 24 (24.00%) Java
3 23 (23.00%) SQL
4 22 (22.00%) C++
5 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.00%) C#
7 11 (11.00%) Bash
8 5 (5.00%) C
9 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.00%) Clojure
10 1 (1.00%) Groovy
10 1 (1.00%) Scala
10 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.00%) ISEB
3 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.00%) MCDST
3 1 (1.00%) MCITP
3 1 (1.00%) MCP
3 1 (1.00%) MCSA
3 1 (1.00%) MCSE
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) MiFID
3 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Grafana
2 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Bloomberg
3 11 (11.00%) Atlassian
4 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.00%) ION Trading
6 5 (5.00%) Oracle
6 5 (5.00%) Reuters
6 5 (5.00%) Solace
7 4 (4.00%) CQG
7 4 (4.00%) Patsystems
7 4 (4.00%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.00%) Trayport
8 3 (3.00%) Cisco
9 2 (2.00%) FFastFill
9 2 (2.00%) Refinitiv
10 1 (1.00%) FactSet
10 1 (1.00%) New Relic
10 1 (1.00%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.00%) Splunk
10 1 (1.00%) Tradeweb