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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 783 709
Rank change year-on-year +190 -74 +187
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 109 124 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.58% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 88 242
10th Percentile £44,875 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £58,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £120,625 £100,625 £107,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 - -

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Top 8 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 31 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 +163 100 £102,500 +20.59% 128
London +91 95 £102,500 +20.59% 124
Work from Home +124 43 £110,000 +41.94% 47
UK excluding London +187 10 £67,500 - 15
Scotland +120 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £67,500 - 11

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 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Orchestrade
2 5 (4.59%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.09%) Azure
2 7 (6.42%) AWS
3 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (1.83%) GCP
6 1 (0.92%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.01%) Multicast
2 5 (4.59%) DHCP
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
2 5 (4.59%) Firewall
2 5 (4.59%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (4.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.67%) Telnet
4 2 (1.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) FTP
5 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) Relational Database
2 11 (10.09%) KDB
2 11 (10.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.50%) Kdb+
3 6 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) Git
1 14 (12.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Babel
2 2 (1.83%) Crucible
2 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.83%) webpack
3 1 (0.92%) JUnit
3 1 (0.92%) NeoLoad
3 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (65.14%) Finance
2 53 (48.62%) Banking
3 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.76%) Front Office
5 14 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (11.93%) Law
7 11 (10.09%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.50%) Back Office
9 5 (4.59%) Advertising
10 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.67%) Spanish Language
11 3 (2.75%) French Language
12 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (44.04%) Developer
2 36 (33.03%) C# Developer
3 33 (30.28%) Senior
4 27 (24.77%) Software Engineer
5 20 (18.35%) Analyst
5 20 (18.35%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 19 (17.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (13.76%) Senior Developer
8 14 (12.84%) Support Analyst
9 13 (11.93%) Java Engineer
10 10 (9.17%) .NET Developer
10 10 (9.17%) C# .NET Developer
10 10 (9.17%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (9.17%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (8.26%) Lead
11 9 (8.26%) Software Developer
12 7 (6.42%) Applications Support
12 7 (6.42%) Banking Analyst
12 7 (6.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (6.42%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) Middleware
2 21 (19.27%) .NET
3 15 (13.76%) NHibernate
4 14 (12.84%) React
4 14 (12.84%) REST
4 14 (12.84%) Web Services
4 14 (12.84%) XML
5 12 (11.01%) .NET Core
6 11 (10.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (9.17%) pytest
8 9 (8.26%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.42%) Kafka
9 7 (6.42%) Spring
10 6 (5.50%) RESTful
11 5 (4.59%) HTML
12 4 (3.67%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (3.67%) CSS
12 4 (3.67%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Derivative
2 22 (20.18%) Equities
2 22 (20.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (18.35%) Fixed Income
4 15 (13.76%) Algorithms
5 9 (8.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.50%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.59%) Bitcoin
7 5 (4.59%) Eurex
7 5 (4.59%) Reference Data
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.92%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 43 (39.45%) Linux
2 20 (18.35%) Unix
3 18 (16.51%) Windows
4 9 (8.26%) Rocky
5 7 (6.42%) CentOS
6 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.92%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.95%) Agile
2 31 (28.44%) Software Engineering
3 29 (26.61%) Microservices
4 27 (24.77%) Computer Science
5 26 (23.85%) SDLC
6 25 (22.94%) Low Latency
7 21 (19.27%) Electronic Trading
8 20 (18.35%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (18.35%) Test Automation
9 17 (15.60%) TDD
9 17 (15.60%) Workflow
10 15 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (11.93%) DevOps
11 13 (11.93%) Mathematics
11 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.01%) ITIL
12 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.09%) Client Onboarding
13 11 (10.09%) OOP
14 10 (9.17%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.12%) C#
2 43 (39.45%) Python
3 42 (38.53%) SQL
4 23 (21.10%) Java
5 21 (19.27%) C++
6 16 (14.68%) Bash
7 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.59%) Perl
10 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.83%) C
11 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.92%) Clojure
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
12 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Degree
2 8 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.92%) MBA
3 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.92%) PMP
3 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Grafana
2 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Bloomberg
3 11 (10.09%) Oracle
4 9 (8.26%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.34%) Trayport
6 7 (6.42%) Reuters
7 6 (5.50%) ION Trading
8 5 (4.59%) CQG
8 5 (4.59%) Patsystems
8 5 (4.59%) Solace
9 4 (3.67%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.75%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (1.83%) Sophis
12 1 (0.92%) Cisco
12 1 (0.92%) Citrix
12 1 (0.92%) IBM
12 1 (0.92%) Murex
12 1 (0.92%) Splunk
12 1 (0.92%) Sun