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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 725 869
Rank change year-on-year -72 +144 -205
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 114 281 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.90% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 76 245 306
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £112,188 £107,500 £110,938
90th Percentile £147,500 £123,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 21,036 31,192 63,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.12% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15,709 19,201 30,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -26 98 £85,000 -5.56% 44
England -72 98 £85,000 -5.56% 46
Work from Home +6 38 £75,000 - 12
UK excluding London - 9 £58,750 - 5
Scotland - 7 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,750 - 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 22 (19.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.63%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.53%) AWS
2 7 (6.14%) Azure
3 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Functions
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (1.75%) GCP
4 2 (1.75%) Serverless
4 2 (1.75%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.30%) TCP/IP
2 15 (13.16%) DHCP
2 15 (13.16%) DNS
2 15 (13.16%) Firewall
2 15 (13.16%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (2.63%) FTP
3 3 (2.63%) Multicast
4 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.02%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.14%) Redis
4 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.88%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 9 (7.89%) Git
3 7 (6.14%) Moq
4 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
General
1 70 (61.40%) Finance
2 58 (50.88%) Banking
3 40 (35.09%) Front Office
4 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 15 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 12 (10.53%) Back Office
7 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.14%) Law
7 7 (6.14%) Private Banking
8 6 (5.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) Developer
2 32 (28.07%) Analyst
3 29 (25.44%) Applications Support
4 27 (23.68%) Support Analyst
5 23 (20.18%) Java Developer
6 19 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (14.04%) Senior
8 15 (13.16%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (10.53%) Senior Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 10 (8.77%) Financial Analyst
11 10 (8.77%) Software Engineer
11 10 (8.77%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (7.89%) Banking Analyst
13 8 (7.02%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (7.02%) Systems Support Analyst
13 8 (7.02%) Technical Support
13 8 (7.02%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) .NET
1 15 (13.16%) AngularJS
1 15 (13.16%) CSS
2 13 (11.40%) HTML
3 10 (8.77%) ASP.NET
3 10 (8.77%) ASP.NET MVC
3 10 (8.77%) React
4 9 (7.89%) CSS3
4 9 (7.89%) HTML5
5 8 (7.02%) .NET Framework
5 8 (7.02%) jQuery
6 7 (6.14%) Ajax
6 7 (6.14%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 7 (6.14%) Entity Framework
6 7 (6.14%) LINQ
6 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 6 (5.26%) REST
8 5 (4.39%) Spring
8 5 (4.39%) WebSockets
9 4 (3.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (18.42%) Onboarding
3 20 (17.54%) Fixed Income
4 16 (14.04%) Equities
5 15 (13.16%) Eurex
6 14 (12.28%) Hedge funds
7 10 (8.77%) Cloud Native
8 8 (7.02%) Algorithms
9 7 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (5.26%) Derivative
11 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
11 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
12 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
12 3 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (1.75%) FPGA
13 2 (1.75%) OTC Derivatives
14 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 53 (46.49%) Linux
2 26 (22.81%) Unix
3 25 (21.93%) Windows
4 15 (13.16%) CentOS
5 10 (8.77%) Solaris
5 10 (8.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.07%) Client Onboarding
2 30 (26.32%) ITIL
3 25 (21.93%) Electronic Trading
4 24 (21.05%) Incident Management
5 21 (18.42%) Agile
6 20 (17.54%) Fintech
7 19 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
8 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
10 14 (12.28%) High-Frequency Trading
10 14 (12.28%) Workflow
11 13 (11.40%) Asset Management
11 13 (11.40%) Computer Science
11 13 (11.40%) Low Latency
11 13 (11.40%) Market Making
12 11 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.77%) Microservices
13 10 (8.77%) MVC
14 9 (7.89%) Software Testing
14 9 (7.89%) UML
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.86%) SQL
2 48 (42.11%) Java
3 40 (35.09%) Python
4 26 (22.81%) JavaScript
5 24 (21.05%) PowerShell
6 16 (14.04%) Bash
7 15 (13.16%) Perl
7 15 (13.16%) Ruby
8 13 (11.40%) C#
9 11 (9.65%) C++
10 7 (6.14%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.39%) Kotlin
11 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.63%) Clojure
12 3 (2.63%) Go
12 3 (2.63%) Groovy
12 3 (2.63%) Scala
13 2 (1.75%) Rust
13 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) SLA
2 4 (3.51%) MiFID
3 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) EMIR
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (2.63%) Kibana
2 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (21.05%) Oracle
2 23 (20.18%) ION Trading
3 21 (18.42%) Bloomberg
4 18 (15.79%) Reuters
5 15 (13.16%) CQG
5 15 (13.16%) Patsystems
5 15 (13.16%) Red Hat
5 15 (13.16%) Trayport
6 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
7 8 (7.02%) Algorithmics
7 8 (7.02%) IBM
8 5 (4.39%) Murex
9 4 (3.51%) Solace
10 3 (2.63%) MarketAxess
10 3 (2.63%) PagerDuty
10 3 (2.63%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (2.63%) Tradeweb
11 2 (1.75%) Sybase
12 1 (0.88%) SAP
12 1 (0.88%) Sun