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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 574 541
Rank change year-on-year +70 -33 +161
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 98 87 127
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.58% 0.82% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 81 49 100
10th Percentile £72,500 £55,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £85,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% +1.49% -9.46%
75th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,000 £126,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +32.35% +3.03% -8.33%

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 6,221 10,581 11,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.94% 21.45% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 6,250 9,550
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,088 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +61 98 £112,500 +32.35% 27
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 6 (6.12%) Confluence
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.04%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.31%) AWS
2 9 (9.18%) Azure
3 6 (6.12%) GitHub
4 3 (3.06%) GCP
5 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.04%) Figma
5 2 (2.04%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.02%) Datadog
6 1 (1.02%) n8n
6 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.02%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 37 (37.76%) Multicast
2 7 (7.14%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.06%) Firewall
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.04%) DHCP
5 2 (2.04%) DNS
6 1 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.02%) KDB
4 1 (1.02%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) Selenium
4 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.04%) VisualVM
4 2 (2.04%) YourKit
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Gradle
General
1 57 (58.16%) Finance
2 53 (54.08%) Front Office
3 27 (27.55%) Banking
4 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Back Office
6 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.08%) Spanish Language
8 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Games
9 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (44.90%) Developer
2 23 (23.47%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 21 (21.43%) React Developer
4 20 (20.41%) Analyst
5 17 (17.35%) Senior
5 17 (17.35%) Software Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) C++ Developer
6 13 (13.27%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Python Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Python Software Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Support Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.10%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Business Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.51%) React
2 21 (21.43%) Highcharts JS
2 21 (21.43%) OpenFin
2 21 (21.43%) WebSockets
3 15 (15.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 13 (13.27%) pytest
5 9 (9.18%) Kafka
6 8 (8.16%) .NET
7 6 (6.12%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (3.06%) CSS
8 3 (3.06%) HTML
8 3 (3.06%) Playwright
8 3 (3.06%) REST
8 3 (3.06%) Sass
8 3 (3.06%) ZeroMQ
9 2 (2.04%) Akka
9 2 (2.04%) Blazor
9 2 (2.04%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.04%) Next.js
9 2 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (44.90%) Fixed Income
2 38 (38.78%) Derivative
3 32 (32.65%) Equities
4 25 (25.51%) Algorithms
5 22 (22.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (9.18%) Onboarding
7 7 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (7.14%) Eurex
8 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
8 6 (6.12%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
10 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 2 (2.04%) TWAP
11 2 (2.04%) VWAP
12 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 61 (62.24%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) Windows
3 12 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (9.18%) Unix
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.06%) Solaris
6 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (72.45%) Low Latency
2 38 (38.78%) Electronic Trading
3 29 (29.59%) Containerisation
4 25 (25.51%) Agile
4 25 (25.51%) Computer Science
5 24 (24.49%) Analytics
5 24 (24.49%) Performance Optimisation
5 24 (24.49%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
6 21 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
6 21 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 20 (20.41%) Mathematics
8 19 (19.39%) SDLC
9 18 (18.37%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.33%) Algorithmic Trading
11 15 (15.31%) Concurrent Programming
11 15 (15.31%) Process Improvement
11 15 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (14.29%) Workflow
13 13 (13.27%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) Python
2 33 (33.67%) C++
3 24 (24.49%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.45%) Java
5 21 (21.43%) SQL
6 8 (8.16%) C#
7 6 (6.12%) Bash
8 3 (3.06%) C
8 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) ISEB
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.04%) MCDST
4 2 (2.04%) MCITP
4 2 (2.04%) MCP
4 2 (2.04%) MCSA
4 2 (2.04%) MCSE
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) MiFID
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Grafana
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (15.31%) Red Hat
2 10 (10.20%) Bloomberg
3 7 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 7 (7.14%) CQG
3 7 (7.14%) ION Trading
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) Patsystems
3 7 (7.14%) Reuters
3 7 (7.14%) Trayport
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco
6 2 (2.04%) Adobe
6 2 (2.04%) FFastFill
6 2 (2.04%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.04%) Splunk
6 2 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.02%) New Relic
7 1 (1.02%) PagerDuty