FIX Protocol Jobs

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 754 699
Rank change year-on-year +166 -55 +178
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 90 110 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 0.54% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 64 74 270
10th Percentile £46,000 £67,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £76,563 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £121,875 £107,500
90th Percentile £131,750 £147,500 £133,875
UK excluding London median annual salary - £58,750 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,891 20,473 33,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.61% 22.18% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,637 15,470 20,587
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,100 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol.

Salary trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK over the 6 months to 1 April 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
England +138 83 £90,000 +1.41% 140
London +71 80 £85,000 -4.23% 130
Work from Home +160 34 £110,000 +37.50% 35
UK excluding London +203 2 - - 27
North of England - 1 - - 4
North West - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 13

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Fidessa
2 7 (7.78%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) Azure
2 7 (7.78%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.33%) Datadog
6 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.11%) GCP
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.56%) Multicast
2 13 (14.44%) FIX Connectivity
3 12 (13.33%) DHCP
3 12 (13.33%) DNS
3 12 (13.33%) Firewall
3 12 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.44%) Telnet
5 2 (2.22%) FTP
6 1 (1.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.11%) KDB
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Git
1 13 (14.44%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Crucible
3 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.11%) JUnit
3 1 (1.11%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (63.33%) Finance
2 47 (52.22%) Banking
3 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Front Office
5 10 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.78%) Spanish Language
7 5 (5.56%) Back Office
8 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.33%) French Language
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Developer
2 26 (28.89%) C# Developer
3 25 (27.78%) Senior
4 24 (26.67%) Analyst
5 19 (21.11%) Support Analyst
6 16 (17.78%) Applications Support
6 16 (17.78%) Banking Analyst
6 16 (17.78%) Senior Developer
7 14 (15.56%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 13 (14.44%) Financial Analyst
8 13 (14.44%) Software Engineer
9 12 (13.33%) Applications Support Analyst
9 12 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (10.00%) .NET Developer
12 7 (7.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) Senior .NET Developer
12 7 (7.78%) Software Developer
12 7 (7.78%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.00%) .NET
2 17 (18.89%) Middleware
3 14 (15.56%) XML
4 12 (13.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 12 (13.33%) REST
5 11 (12.22%) Web Services
6 10 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 10 (11.11%) NHibernate
6 10 (11.11%) pytest
7 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.67%) HTML
9 5 (5.56%) CSS
9 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (5.56%) React
10 4 (4.44%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (4.44%) RESTful
10 4 (4.44%) SignalR
11 3 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Equities
2 22 (24.44%) Derivative
2 22 (24.44%) Fixed Income
3 17 (18.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (16.67%) Eurex
5 13 (14.44%) Onboarding
6 11 (12.22%) Algorithms
7 5 (5.56%) Bitcoin
7 5 (5.56%) Reference Data
8 4 (4.44%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (4.44%) Hedge funds
9 3 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (2.22%) FPGA
11 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (52.22%) Linux
2 24 (26.67%) Unix
3 22 (24.44%) Windows
4 14 (15.56%) CentOS
5 9 (10.00%) Rocky
6 8 (8.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.44%) Solaris
8 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Agile
2 22 (24.44%) Client Onboarding
3 20 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 20 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 20 (22.22%) Microservices
4 18 (20.00%) ITIL
5 16 (17.78%) Electronic Trading
5 16 (17.78%) SDLC
6 14 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (15.56%) Workflow
7 13 (14.44%) DevOps
7 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
7 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
8 12 (13.33%) Mathematics
9 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.22%) OOP
10 10 (11.11%) Change Management
10 10 (11.11%) TDD
11 7 (7.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) Python
1 46 (51.11%) SQL
2 33 (36.67%) C#
3 22 (24.44%) C++
4 18 (20.00%) Bash
5 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
6 10 (11.11%) Java
7 9 (10.00%) Perl
8 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.44%) Ruby
10 2 (2.22%) Clojure
10 2 (2.22%) Groovy
10 2 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) MiFID
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Grafana
2 3 (3.33%) Ansible
2 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Bloomberg
2 19 (21.11%) Oracle
3 18 (20.00%) Reuters
3 18 (20.00%) Trayport
4 16 (17.78%) ION Trading
4 16 (17.78%) Red Hat
5 15 (16.67%) CQG
6 14 (15.56%) Patsystems
7 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
8 9 (10.00%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.33%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (3.33%) Sophis
9 3 (3.33%) Splunk
10 2 (2.22%) Solace
11 1 (1.11%) IBM
11 1 (1.11%) Murex
11 1 (1.11%) NYFIX
11 1 (1.11%) Sun
11 1 (1.11%) TIBCO