Financial Information Exchange Markup Language (FIXML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring FIXML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 798 - 792
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Permanent jobs citing FIXML 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.001%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £98,750 - £79,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - £81,945
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.06%
75th Percentile £116,250 - £84,848
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIXML 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 11,839 8,555 16,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 17.44% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,600 5,488 11,304
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year - +6.16% -5.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FIXML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FIXML job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FIXML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FIXML

FIXML
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FIXML within the UK over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
London - 3 £107,500 - 1
England - 3 £107,500 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £107,500 - 1

FIXML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (100.00%) Back Office
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (100.00%) FpML
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) SOLID
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java