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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 662 534
Rank change year-on-year +102 -128 +255
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 91 98 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.73% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 54 66 175
10th Percentile £76,125 £53,750 £62,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £106,250 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% +3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £127,188 £114,375 £94,375
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £124,000
UK median annual salary £102,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.59% +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 7,057 13,419 14,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.33% 19.44% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,627 8,811 11,945
10th Percentile £38,825 £39,720 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +56 87 £106,250 +32.81% 28
North West - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
FIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.49%) Confluence
3 4 (4.40%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.10%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.19%) AWS
2 7 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (3.30%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.10%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.48%) Multicast
2 4 (4.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (3.30%) SSL
3 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.20%) DHCP
4 2 (2.20%) DNS
4 2 (2.20%) Firewall
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.10%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
2 10 (10.99%) KDB
3 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.40%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) Redis
6 1 (1.10%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) Babel
3 2 (2.20%) webpack
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Crucible
4 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) VisualVM
4 1 (1.10%) YourKit
General
1 59 (64.84%) Finance
2 31 (34.07%) Banking
3 24 (26.37%) Front Office
4 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
5 15 (16.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (15.38%) Law
7 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.49%) Back Office
9 4 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.20%) Advertising
11 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.20%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (36.26%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Senior
3 21 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 18 (19.78%) C# Developer
5 17 (18.68%) Analyst
6 16 (17.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (15.38%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 13 (14.29%) Lead
9 12 (13.19%) Java Engineer
10 9 (9.89%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 9 (9.89%) Support Analyst
11 8 (8.79%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Python Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (8.79%) Support Engineer
12 6 (6.59%) Applications Support
12 6 (6.59%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) React
2 13 (14.29%) Middleware
3 12 (13.19%) NHibernate
4 10 (10.99%) .NET
5 9 (9.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 8 (8.79%) pytest
6 8 (8.79%) WebSockets
7 6 (6.59%) Highcharts JS
7 6 (6.59%) OpenFin
7 6 (6.59%) REST
7 6 (6.59%) Web Services
8 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.49%) Kafka
8 5 (5.49%) Pandas
9 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.40%) Rendezvous
9 4 (4.40%) RESTful
10 3 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (3.30%) Spring
10 3 (3.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) Equities
1 21 (23.08%) Fixed Income
2 20 (21.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (19.78%) Derivative
4 13 (14.29%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.49%) Hedge funds
5 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.40%) Eurex
6 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.30%) TWAP
7 3 (3.30%) VWAP
8 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.10%) Bitcoin
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Linux
2 16 (17.58%) Unix
3 10 (10.99%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Rocky
5 1 (1.10%) Solaris
5 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 34 (37.36%) Agile
3 30 (32.97%) Electronic Trading
4 29 (31.87%) Software Engineering
5 24 (26.37%) SDLC
6 21 (23.08%) Computer Science
7 19 (20.88%) Microservices
8 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.58%) TDD
9 15 (16.48%) Algorithmic Trading
9 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.29%) Analytics
10 13 (14.29%) Mathematics
10 13 (14.29%) Workflow
11 11 (12.09%) DevOps
12 10 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.99%) Tech Ops
12 10 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (9.89%) Knowledge Transfer
13 9 (9.89%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.07%) Python
2 24 (26.37%) SQL
3 22 (24.18%) C#
4 19 (20.88%) Java
5 15 (16.48%) C++
6 12 (13.19%) Bash
7 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.40%) C
8 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.10%) Clojure
10 1 (1.10%) Groovy
10 1 (1.10%) Perl
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.10%) MBA
3 1 (1.10%) MCDST
3 1 (1.10%) MCITP
3 1 (1.10%) MCP
3 1 (1.10%) MCSA
3 1 (1.10%) MCSE
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.10%) PMP
3 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) MiFID
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Grafana
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 11 (12.09%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.59%) ION Trading
5 5 (5.49%) Oracle
5 5 (5.49%) Reuters
5 5 (5.49%) Solace
5 5 (5.49%) Trayport
6 4 (4.40%) CQG
6 4 (4.40%) Patsystems
6 4 (4.40%) TIBCO
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 2 (2.20%) FFastFill
7 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.20%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.10%) FactSet
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic
8 1 (1.10%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.10%) Splunk
8 1 (1.10%) Tradeweb