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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 627 513
Rank change year-on-year +118 -114 +214
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 109 96 174
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 0.77% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 80 56 144
10th Percentile £72,375 £50,625 £62,500
25th Percentile £84,688 £72,500 £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 £116,250 £94,063
90th Percentile £152,750 £146,250 £121,750
UK median annual salary £111,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.88% +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 6,346 12,486 12,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.68% 20.75% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,769 7,519 10,112
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.21% +1.23%

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 25 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 25 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 +76 107 £112,500 +32.35% 28
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
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 12 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.92%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) AWS
2 6 (5.50%) Azure
3 4 (3.67%) GCP
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.83%) GitHub
4 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.92%) Figma
5 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.92%) n8n
5 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.92%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.44%) Multicast
2 6 (5.50%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.83%) Firewall
4 2 (1.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.92%) DHCP
5 1 (0.92%) DNS
5 1 (0.92%) FTP
5 1 (0.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.50%) KDB
4 3 (2.75%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Git
3 3 (2.75%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) VisualVM
4 2 (1.83%) YourKit
5 1 (0.92%) Babel
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 66 (60.55%) Finance
2 51 (46.79%) Front Office
3 32 (29.36%) Banking
4 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
5 14 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (8.26%) Law
8 6 (5.50%) Back Office
9 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.83%) Games
10 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (44.04%) Developer
2 22 (20.18%) Analyst
3 21 (19.27%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 20 (18.35%) Senior
5 18 (16.51%) React Developer
5 18 (16.51%) Software Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) C++ Developer
7 12 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) Lead
8 11 (10.09%) Support Analyst
9 9 (8.26%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Python Software Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Applications Support
10 8 (7.34%) Java Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Applications Support Analyst
11 6 (5.50%) C# Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Lead Java Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.02%) React
2 19 (17.43%) WebSockets
3 18 (16.51%) Highcharts JS
3 18 (16.51%) OpenFin
4 11 (10.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 9 (8.26%) pytest
6 8 (7.34%) .NET
6 8 (7.34%) Kafka
7 6 (5.50%) Middleware
8 5 (4.59%) CSS
8 5 (4.59%) NHibernate
9 4 (3.67%) HTML
9 4 (3.67%) Java Concurrency
9 4 (3.67%) Pandas
9 4 (3.67%) REST
10 3 (2.75%) Playwright
10 3 (2.75%) RESTful
11 2 (1.83%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.83%) Spring
11 2 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Fixed Income
2 34 (31.19%) Derivative
3 27 (24.77%) Equities
4 23 (21.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (16.51%) Algorithms
6 7 (6.42%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.67%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.67%) Eurex
9 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.83%) TWAP
10 2 (1.83%) VWAP
11 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (56.88%) Linux
2 18 (16.51%) Unix
3 12 (11.01%) Windows
4 10 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.83%) Solaris
6 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (62.39%) Low Latency
2 41 (37.61%) Electronic Trading
3 30 (27.52%) Agile
4 25 (22.94%) Analytics
4 25 (22.94%) Containerisation
4 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.18%) Computer Science
6 21 (19.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 21 (19.27%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (19.27%) SDLC
7 20 (18.35%) Algorithmic Trading
8 18 (16.51%) Dashboard Development
8 18 (16.51%) Data Visualisation
8 18 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.51%) Visualisation
9 16 (14.68%) Mathematics
10 15 (13.76%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.93%) Concurrent Programming
11 13 (11.93%) Microservices
11 13 (11.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) Python
2 29 (26.61%) C++
3 27 (24.77%) Java
3 27 (24.77%) SQL
4 22 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.01%) Bash
6 11 (10.09%) C#
7 5 (4.59%) C
8 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) Clojure
10 1 (0.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.92%) Scala
10 1 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.75%) ISEB
3 3 (2.75%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) MCDST
5 1 (0.92%) MCITP
5 1 (0.92%) MCP
5 1 (0.92%) MCSA
5 1 (0.92%) MCSE
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) MiFID
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Grafana
2 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Ansible
3 1 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Atlassian
3 12 (11.01%) Bloomberg
3 12 (11.01%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.50%) ION Trading
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle
5 5 (4.59%) Reuters
6 4 (3.67%) CQG
6 4 (3.67%) Patsystems
6 4 (3.67%) Trayport
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco
7 3 (2.75%) Solace
8 2 (1.83%) FFastFill
8 2 (1.83%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.83%) Splunk
8 2 (1.83%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.92%) FactSet
9 1 (0.92%) Google
9 1 (0.92%) New Relic