Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FIX Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 564 755 785
Rank change year-on-year +191 +30 -183
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 168 329 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.82% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 137 284 251
10th Percentile £62,300 £53,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £73,438 £68,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £63,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.84% -25.00% +47.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIX Protocol is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,119 40,267 49,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.34% 32.43% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11,049 24,513 31,932
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,056 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Top 6 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 6 December 2023. 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 +172 163 £80,000 -11.11% 47
London +142 163 £80,000 -11.11% 44
Work from Home +238 63 £80,000 -5.88% 12
UK excluding London +237 3 £58,750 -7.84% 12
Northern Ireland +38 2 £58,750 -9.62% 5
Scotland +54 1 - -

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 2 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (0.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (10.12%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.19%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.60%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.31%) AWS
2 18 (10.71%) Azure
3 8 (4.76%) SaaS
4 5 (2.98%) GCP
5 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.60%) Datadog
7 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.60%) IaaS
7 1 (0.60%) Serverless
7 1 (0.60%) Slack
7 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.48%) FIX Connectivity
2 14 (8.33%) DHCP
2 14 (8.33%) DNS
2 14 (8.33%) Firewall
2 14 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.98%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.19%) HTTP
4 2 (1.19%) Multicast
4 2 (1.19%) Unicast
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) PABX
5 1 (0.60%) Softphone
5 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.79%) Redis
3 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.19%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.60%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.60%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.60%) Flink
5 1 (0.60%) KDB
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.98%) JIRA
2 4 (2.38%) GitLab
3 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.19%) Git
5 1 (0.60%) Moq
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (69.05%) Finance
2 51 (30.36%) Banking
3 45 (26.79%) Front Office
4 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 21 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 17 (10.12%) Back Office
7 11 (6.55%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Environmental Health
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) International Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.40%) Analyst
2 30 (17.86%) Developer
3 28 (16.67%) Applications Support
4 27 (16.07%) Support Analyst
5 21 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 20 (11.90%) Java Developer
7 18 (10.71%) Senior
8 16 (9.52%) Applications Support Analyst
9 15 (8.93%) Quantitative Developer
10 14 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 14 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 14 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
10 14 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 14 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 14 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
10 14 (8.33%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 13 (7.74%) Business Analyst
12 12 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 12 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
13 8 (4.76%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.14%) FpML
2 11 (6.55%) XML
3 9 (5.36%) .NET
4 7 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.17%) Spring
4 7 (4.17%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.57%) Kafka
5 6 (3.57%) Middleware
6 5 (2.98%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.98%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (2.98%) React
6 5 (2.98%) Vue
7 4 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.38%) Entity Framework
7 4 (2.38%) REST
8 3 (1.79%) Blazor
8 3 (1.79%) Redux
8 3 (1.79%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 58 (34.52%) Fixed Income
2 33 (19.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 18 (10.71%) Equities
5 15 (8.93%) Eurex
6 11 (6.55%) Hedge funds
7 9 (5.36%) Derivative
7 9 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (4.17%) Algorithms
8 7 (4.17%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.38%) CMDB
10 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.19%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.43%) Linux
2 30 (17.86%) Windows
3 28 (16.67%) Unix
4 15 (8.93%) Ubuntu
5 14 (8.33%) Solaris
6 13 (7.74%) CentOS
7 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.52%) Electronic Trading
2 32 (19.05%) Algorithmic Trading
3 30 (17.86%) Client Onboarding
4 24 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 22 (13.10%) ITIL
6 21 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (11.90%) Agile
8 18 (10.71%) Order Management
9 17 (10.12%) Business Analysis
10 16 (9.52%) Fintech
11 10 (5.95%) Microservices
12 9 (5.36%) Multithreading
13 8 (4.76%) Computer Science
13 8 (4.76%) Containerisation
13 8 (4.76%) OOP
13 8 (4.76%) Proprietary Trading
13 8 (4.76%) Smart Order Routing
13 8 (4.76%) Waterfall
14 7 (4.17%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.83%) SQL
2 48 (28.57%) Java
3 35 (20.83%) Python
4 21 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 16 (9.52%) Bash
6 15 (8.93%) Perl
7 13 (7.74%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.14%) Ruby
9 11 (6.55%) C#
10 6 (3.57%) C++
11 5 (2.98%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.38%) Go
13 2 (1.19%) Rust
13 2 (1.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.19%) VBA
14 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) CCNA
4 1 (0.60%) CCNP
4 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.60%) MCDST
4 1 (0.60%) MCITP
4 1 (0.60%) MCP
4 1 (0.60%) MCSA
4 1 (0.60%) MCSE
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 6 (3.57%) SLA
3 2 (1.19%) MiFID
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.38%) Ansible
2 4 (2.38%) Puppet
3 2 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.60%) Control-M
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (20.24%) Bloomberg
2 22 (13.10%) Oracle
3 17 (10.12%) MarketAxess
3 17 (10.12%) Tradeweb
4 16 (9.52%) ION Trading
4 16 (9.52%) Trayport
5 15 (8.93%) Red Hat
5 15 (8.93%) Reuters
6 14 (8.33%) CQG
6 14 (8.33%) Patsystems
7 7 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.98%) Murex
9 3 (1.79%) Cisco
9 3 (1.79%) Sybase
10 2 (1.19%) Sun
10 2 (1.19%) VMware
11 1 (0.60%) Algorithmics
11 1 (0.60%) Charles River
11 1 (0.60%) IBM
11 1 (0.60%) Salesforce