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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 767 718
Rank change year-on-year +171 -49 +151
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 88 112 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.55% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 63 75 267
10th Percentile £45,250 £56,750 £50,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £147,500 £134,250
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 8,885 20,535 33,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 22.11% 30.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,646 15,523 20,391
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 3 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 3 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 +140 81 £85,000 -2.86% 143
London +60 78 £85,000 -2.86% 134
Work from Home +174 33 £110,000 +41.94% 29
UK excluding London +192 2 - - 25
North of England - 1 - - 4
North West - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 12

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 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Fidessa
2 7 (7.95%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.77%) Azure
2 7 (7.95%) AWS
3 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.41%) Datadog
6 2 (2.27%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.14%) GCP
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.91%) Multicast
2 13 (14.77%) FIX Connectivity
3 12 (13.64%) DHCP
3 12 (13.64%) DNS
3 12 (13.64%) Firewall
3 12 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.55%) Telnet
5 2 (2.27%) FTP
6 1 (1.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 8 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.14%) KDB
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Git
2 12 (13.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) Crucible
3 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.14%) JUnit
3 1 (1.14%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (63.64%) Finance
2 47 (53.41%) Banking
3 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.64%) Front Office
5 10 (11.36%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Spanish Language
7 5 (5.68%) Back Office
8 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.41%) French Language
10 1 (1.14%) Advertising
10 1 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (43.18%) Developer
2 25 (28.41%) C# Developer
2 25 (28.41%) Senior
3 24 (27.27%) Analyst
4 19 (21.59%) Support Analyst
5 16 (18.18%) Applications Support
5 16 (18.18%) Banking Analyst
5 16 (18.18%) Senior Developer
6 13 (14.77%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 13 (14.77%) Financial Analyst
6 13 (14.77%) Software Engineer
7 12 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
7 12 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (11.36%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (11.36%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (10.23%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.95%) Python Software Engineer
10 7 (7.95%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (7.95%) Software Developer
10 7 (7.95%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) .NET
2 16 (18.18%) Middleware
3 13 (14.77%) XML
4 12 (13.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 11 (12.50%) REST
6 10 (11.36%) .NET Core
6 10 (11.36%) pytest
6 10 (11.36%) Web Services
7 9 (10.23%) NHibernate
8 8 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.82%) HTML
10 5 (5.68%) CSS
10 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.68%) React
11 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET
11 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.55%) SignalR
12 3 (3.41%) Entity Framework
12 3 (3.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.41%) Equities
2 22 (25.00%) Derivative
2 22 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 17 (19.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (17.05%) Eurex
5 13 (14.77%) Onboarding
6 11 (12.50%) Algorithms
7 5 (5.68%) Bitcoin
7 5 (5.68%) Reference Data
8 4 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (4.55%) Hedge funds
9 3 (3.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (2.27%) FPGA
11 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 47 (53.41%) Linux
2 24 (27.27%) Unix
3 22 (25.00%) Windows
4 14 (15.91%) CentOS
5 9 (10.23%) Rocky
6 8 (9.09%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.55%) Solaris
8 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Agile
2 22 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 19 (21.59%) Computer Science
3 19 (21.59%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (21.59%) Low Latency
3 19 (21.59%) Microservices
4 18 (20.45%) ITIL
5 16 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
5 16 (18.18%) SDLC
6 14 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (15.91%) Workflow
7 13 (14.77%) DevOps
7 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.50%) Mathematics
9 11 (12.50%) OOP
10 10 (11.36%) Change Management
10 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.23%) TDD
12 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) Python
1 46 (52.27%) SQL
2 32 (36.36%) C#
3 21 (23.86%) C++
4 18 (20.45%) Bash
5 16 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 10 (11.36%) Java
7 9 (10.23%) Perl
8 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.55%) Ruby
10 2 (2.27%) Clojure
10 2 (2.27%) Groovy
10 2 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (19.32%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) MiFID
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Grafana
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.41%) Puppet
3 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (22.73%) Bloomberg
2 19 (21.59%) Oracle
3 18 (20.45%) Reuters
4 17 (19.32%) Trayport
5 16 (18.18%) ION Trading
5 16 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 15 (17.05%) CQG
7 14 (15.91%) Patsystems
8 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 9 (10.23%) Atlassian
10 3 (3.41%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (3.41%) Sophis
10 3 (3.41%) Splunk
11 2 (2.27%) Solace
12 1 (1.14%) IBM
12 1 (1.14%) Murex
12 1 (1.14%) NYFIX
12 1 (1.14%) Sun
12 1 (1.14%) TIBCO