Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FpML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FpML 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 690 894 980
Rank change year-on-year +204 +86 +219
Permanent jobs citing FpML 2 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.024% 0.009% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile - - £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £107,500 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £115,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +17.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £57,500 £122,500 £137,500
90th Percentile - - £141,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £65,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FpML 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%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FpML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FpML.

Salary trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FpML 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 +174 2 £55,000 -52.17% 5
London +110 2 £55,000 -52.17% 4

FpML
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (100.00%) QlikView
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) DTCC
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BPMN
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) EMIR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (100.00%) MiFID
1 2 (100.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Avaloq
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (100.00%) Calypso
1 2 (100.00%) Charles River
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (100.00%) Currenex
1 2 (100.00%) Murex
1 2 (100.00%) OneTrust
1 2 (100.00%) Varonis