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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 777 700
Rank change year-on-year +175 -77 +157
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 90 119 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.56% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 65 81 250
10th Percentile £46,750 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £117,500 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £147,500 £124,375
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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
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 May 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 May 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 +155 84 £95,000 +11.76% 108
London +88 81 £90,000 +5.88% 107
Work from Home +195 40 £110,000 +41.94% 21
UK excluding London +202 2 - - 37
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 32

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 12 (13.33%) 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 11 (12.22%) Fidessa
2 7 (7.78%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) Azure
2 5 (5.56%) AWS
2 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (3.33%) Datadog
4 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.11%) GitHub
4 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) FIX Connectivity
1 11 (12.22%) Multicast
2 10 (11.11%) DHCP
2 10 (11.11%) DNS
2 10 (11.11%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.44%) Telnet
4 1 (1.11%) FTP
4 1 (1.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.56%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.78%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.22%) KDB
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Git
2 12 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) Crucible
4 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.11%) JUnit
4 1 (1.11%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (58.89%) Finance
2 45 (50.00%) Banking
3 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Front Office
4 12 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Back Office
6 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Spanish Language
8 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.33%) French Language
9 2 (2.22%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (46.67%) Developer
2 31 (34.44%) C# Developer
3 26 (28.89%) Senior
4 20 (22.22%) Analyst
5 17 (18.89%) C# Developer - Commodities
5 17 (18.89%) Support Analyst
6 16 (17.78%) Senior Developer
7 14 (15.56%) Software Engineer
8 13 (14.44%) Applications Support
8 13 (14.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (13.33%) Banking Analyst
10 10 (11.11%) .NET Developer
10 10 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
10 10 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
12 7 (7.78%) Python Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) .NET
1 19 (21.11%) Middleware
2 15 (16.67%) XML
3 13 (14.44%) REST
3 13 (14.44%) Web Services
4 12 (13.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 12 (13.33%) NHibernate
5 10 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 10 (11.11%) pytest
6 7 (7.78%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.67%) HTML
8 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (4.44%) CSS
9 4 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.44%) React
9 4 (4.44%) RESTful
10 3 (3.33%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.33%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Derivative
1 22 (24.44%) Equities
2 19 (21.11%) Fixed Income
3 17 (18.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (14.44%) Onboarding
5 11 (12.22%) Algorithms
6 10 (11.11%) Eurex
7 5 (5.56%) Bitcoin
7 5 (5.56%) Hedge funds
7 5 (5.56%) Reference Data
8 4 (4.44%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.22%) FPGA
11 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (45.56%) Linux
2 21 (23.33%) Unix
2 21 (23.33%) Windows
3 12 (13.33%) CentOS
4 9 (10.00%) Rocky
5 6 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.22%) Solaris
8 1 (1.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Agile
2 24 (26.67%) Microservices
3 20 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
3 20 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (21.11%) Computer Science
5 17 (18.89%) ITIL
5 17 (18.89%) Low Latency
6 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
7 14 (15.56%) Workflow
8 13 (14.44%) DevOps
8 13 (14.44%) Electronic Trading
8 13 (14.44%) SDLC
8 13 (14.44%) TDD
8 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
9 12 (13.33%) Change Management
9 12 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.22%) Mathematics
10 11 (12.22%) OOP
11 8 (8.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (48.89%) SQL
2 43 (47.78%) Python
3 39 (43.33%) C#
4 22 (24.44%) C++
5 17 (18.89%) Bash
6 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (11.11%) Java
8 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.78%) Perl
9 2 (2.22%) Ruby
10 1 (1.11%) Clojure
10 1 (1.11%) Groovy
10 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.11%) MBA
3 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.11%) PMP
3 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.11%) MiFID
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 16 (17.78%) Oracle
2 14 (15.56%) Bloomberg
2 14 (15.56%) Red Hat
3 13 (14.44%) Trayport
4 12 (13.33%) Reuters
5 11 (12.22%) ION Trading
5 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
6 10 (11.11%) CQG
7 9 (10.00%) Atlassian
7 9 (10.00%) Patsystems
8 3 (3.33%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (3.33%) Sophis
8 3 (3.33%) Splunk
9 2 (2.22%) Solace
10 1 (1.11%) IBM
10 1 (1.11%) Murex
10 1 (1.11%) NYFIX
10 1 (1.11%) Sun
10 1 (1.11%) TIBCO