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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 624 511
Rank change year-on-year +118 -113 +223
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 111 94 189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 0.76% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 78 55 159
10th Percentile £75,000 £50,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,000
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 £121,250 £93,125
90th Percentile £153,250 £146,500 £122,500
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 6,470 12,388 12,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.07% 20.35% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 7,421 10,451
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £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 15 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 15 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 +74 108 £112,500 +32.35% 77
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
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 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.60%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.90%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.90%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.61%) AWS
2 5 (4.50%) Azure
3 4 (3.60%) GCP
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Datadog
6 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.90%) n8n
6 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.90%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 27 (24.32%) Multicast
2 6 (5.41%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.70%) SSL
5 2 (1.80%) Firewall
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.90%) DHCP
6 1 (0.90%) DNS
6 1 (0.90%) FTP
6 1 (0.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.21%) KDB
3 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.60%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.90%) Power BI
5 1 (0.90%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) JIRA
2 5 (4.50%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) Babel
3 2 (1.80%) Selenium
3 2 (1.80%) VisualVM
3 2 (1.80%) webpack
3 2 (1.80%) YourKit
4 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (61.26%) Finance
2 49 (44.14%) Front Office
3 35 (31.53%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
5 19 (17.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (12.61%) Law
7 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.50%) Back Office
9 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.80%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.90%) Games
12 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (40.54%) Developer
2 22 (19.82%) Senior
3 21 (18.92%) Analyst
3 21 (18.92%) Software Engineer
4 20 (18.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 17 (15.32%) React Developer
6 15 (13.51%) Lead
7 14 (12.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) C++ Developer
8 12 (10.81%) Java Engineer
9 11 (9.91%) Support Analyst
10 9 (8.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Lead Java Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Python Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) Applications Support
11 8 (7.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (6.31%) C# Developer
13 6 (5.41%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.72%) React
2 18 (16.22%) WebSockets
3 17 (15.32%) Highcharts JS
3 17 (15.32%) OpenFin
4 11 (9.91%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 9 (8.11%) Kafka
5 9 (8.11%) pytest
6 8 (7.21%) Middleware
7 6 (5.41%) .NET
7 6 (5.41%) NHibernate
8 5 (4.50%) CSS
8 5 (4.50%) Pandas
9 4 (3.60%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (2.70%) HTML
10 3 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (2.70%) Rendezvous
10 3 (2.70%) REST
10 3 (2.70%) RESTful
10 3 (2.70%) Spring
11 2 (1.80%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.53%) Fixed Income
2 32 (28.83%) Derivative
3 28 (25.23%) Equities
4 23 (20.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (18.02%) Algorithms
6 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.60%) Eurex
9 3 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.70%) TWAP
9 3 (2.70%) VWAP
10 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.80%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.90%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (54.95%) Linux
2 19 (17.12%) Unix
3 12 (10.81%) Windows
4 7 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.80%) Solaris
6 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (59.46%) Low Latency
2 45 (40.54%) Electronic Trading
3 33 (29.73%) Agile
4 30 (27.03%) Software Engineering
5 25 (22.52%) Analytics
5 25 (22.52%) Computer Science
5 25 (22.52%) SDLC
6 23 (20.72%) Algorithmic Trading
7 22 (19.82%) Containerisation
8 20 (18.02%) Performance Optimisation
8 20 (18.02%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.32%) Dashboard Development
10 17 (15.32%) Data Visualisation
10 17 (15.32%) Mathematics
10 17 (15.32%) Test Automation
10 17 (15.32%) Visualisation
11 15 (13.51%) Workflow
12 12 (10.81%) Multithreading
12 12 (10.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) Java
3 27 (24.32%) SQL
4 26 (23.42%) C++
5 21 (18.92%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.81%) Bash
7 11 (9.91%) C#
8 6 (5.41%) C
9 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.90%) Clojure
11 1 (0.90%) Groovy
11 1 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (24.32%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.80%) ISEB
3 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.90%) MCDST
4 1 (0.90%) MCITP
4 1 (0.90%) MCP
4 1 (0.90%) MCSA
4 1 (0.90%) MCSE
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) MiFID
3 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Grafana
2 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Bloomberg
3 12 (10.81%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.41%) ION Trading
6 5 (4.50%) Oracle
6 5 (4.50%) Reuters
7 4 (3.60%) CQG
7 4 (3.60%) Patsystems
7 4 (3.60%) Solace
7 4 (3.60%) Trayport
8 3 (2.70%) Cisco
8 3 (2.70%) Splunk
8 3 (2.70%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.80%) FFastFill
9 2 (1.80%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.90%) New Relic
10 1 (0.90%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.90%) VMware