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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 604 506
Rank change year-on-year +86 -98 +191
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 96 95 150
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 0.84% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 81 57 122
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £73,750
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 £117,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £141,000 £146,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% +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 6,145 11,306 11,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.07% 21.61% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,758 6,915 9,528
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,883 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,210 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 14 December 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 14 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
London +75 95 £112,500 +32.35% 35
North West - 1 - - 6
North of England - 1 - - 11
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 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.08%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.04%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.50%) AWS
2 6 (6.25%) Azure
3 3 (3.13%) GCP
3 3 (3.13%) GitHub
4 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.08%) Figma
4 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.04%) Datadog
5 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) n8n
5 1 (1.04%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.04%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 33 (34.38%) Multicast
2 6 (6.25%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.08%) Firewall
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.04%) DHCP
5 1 (1.04%) DNS
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.08%) KDB
3 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.04%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) Selenium
4 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.08%) VisualVM
4 2 (2.08%) YourKit
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
General
1 53 (55.21%) Finance
1 53 (55.21%) Front Office
2 23 (23.96%) Banking
3 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Back Office
6 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Games
8 2 (2.08%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (47.92%) Developer
2 23 (23.96%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 20 (20.83%) React Developer
4 19 (19.79%) Analyst
5 15 (15.63%) Senior
6 14 (14.58%) Software Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) C++ Developer
8 10 (10.42%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Python Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Python Software Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Support Analyst
9 8 (8.33%) Applications Support
10 6 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
11 5 (5.21%) Banking Analyst
11 5 (5.21%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (5.21%) Support Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
13 3 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.96%) React
2 20 (20.83%) Highcharts JS
2 20 (20.83%) OpenFin
2 20 (20.83%) WebSockets
3 12 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 10 (10.42%) pytest
5 8 (8.33%) Kafka
6 7 (7.29%) .NET
7 5 (5.21%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (3.13%) CSS
8 3 (3.13%) HTML
8 3 (3.13%) Playwright
8 3 (3.13%) REST
8 3 (3.13%) Sass
8 3 (3.13%) ZeroMQ
9 2 (2.08%) Blazor
9 2 (2.08%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.08%) Middleware
9 2 (2.08%) Next.js
9 2 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (41.67%) Fixed Income
2 34 (35.42%) Derivative
3 27 (28.13%) Equities
4 21 (21.88%) Algorithms
5 20 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (7.29%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (4.17%) Eurex
9 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.08%) TWAP
10 2 (2.08%) VWAP
11 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 58 (60.42%) Linux
2 13 (13.54%) Windows
3 12 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (11.46%) Unix
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.08%) Solaris
6 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (67.71%) Low Latency
2 35 (36.46%) Electronic Trading
3 28 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 23 (23.96%) Analytics
4 23 (23.96%) Performance Optimisation
4 23 (23.96%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (20.83%) Agile
5 20 (20.83%) Computer Science
5 20 (20.83%) Dashboard Development
5 20 (20.83%) Data Visualisation
5 20 (20.83%) Visualisation
6 16 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
7 15 (15.63%) Concurrent Programming
7 15 (15.63%) Mathematics
7 15 (15.63%) SDLC
7 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.54%) Unit Testing
9 12 (12.50%) Process Improvement
9 12 (12.50%) SOA
9 12 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.33%) Python
2 30 (31.25%) C++
3 23 (23.96%) JavaScript
3 23 (23.96%) SQL
4 22 (22.92%) Java
5 9 (9.38%) C#
6 8 (8.33%) Bash
7 3 (3.13%) C
7 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.13%) ISEB
3 3 (3.13%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) MCDST
4 1 (1.04%) MCITP
4 1 (1.04%) MCP
4 1 (1.04%) MCSA
4 1 (1.04%) MCSE
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) MiFID
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Grafana
2 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Red Hat
2 9 (9.38%) Atlassian
2 9 (9.38%) Bloomberg
2 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) ION Trading
4 4 (4.17%) CQG
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle
4 4 (4.17%) Patsystems
4 4 (4.17%) Reuters
4 4 (4.17%) Trayport
5 2 (2.08%) Adobe
5 2 (2.08%) Cisco
5 2 (2.08%) FFastFill
5 2 (2.08%) Refinitiv
5 2 (2.08%) Solace
5 2 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) Charles River
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Murex
6 1 (1.04%) VMware