FIX Protocol Contracts

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FIX Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 426 634
Rank change year-on-year -39 +208 -112
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 110 276 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.49% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 2.14% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 244 171
10th Percentile £525 £538 £525
25th Percentile £631 £588 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £788
90th Percentile £1,250 £846 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £356 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol.

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FIX Protocol.

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -68 109 £763 +17.35% 38
London -45 107 £775 +19.23% 37
Work from Home +84 39 £775 +19.23% 8
UK excluding London - 2 £356 - 6
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -

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 12 (10.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (13.64%) ION MarketView
2 12 (10.91%) ION Anvil
3 2 (1.82%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.91%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.36%) AWS
2 5 (4.55%) WhatsApp
3 4 (3.64%) Azure
4 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (2.73%) GitHub
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.91%) Contentful
5 1 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.55%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (2.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.91%) FTP
3 1 (0.91%) Multicast
3 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.18%) KDB
3 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.82%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) JIRA
1 14 (12.73%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.73%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.73%) Git
3 3 (2.73%) GitLab
4 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) Gatling
5 1 (0.91%) JMeter
5 1 (0.91%) Selenium
5 1 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (56.36%) Banking
1 62 (56.36%) Finance
2 36 (32.73%) Investment Banking
3 23 (20.91%) Front Office
4 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Back Office
7 3 (2.73%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Developer
2 22 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 19 (17.27%) Business Analyst
4 16 (14.55%) Analyst
5 13 (11.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
6 12 (10.91%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Quantitative Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Senior
7 11 (10.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 11 (10.00%) Lead
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.09%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 10 (9.09%) Technical Leader
9 8 (7.27%) Project Manager
10 7 (6.36%) Applications Support
10 7 (6.36%) FIX Business Analyst
11 6 (5.45%) Financial Services Project Manager
11 6 (5.45%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) XML
2 8 (7.27%) HTML
3 7 (6.36%) Middleware
3 7 (6.36%) Rendezvous
4 6 (5.45%) CSS
5 5 (4.55%) HTML5
5 5 (4.55%) Kafka
5 5 (4.55%) pytest
5 5 (4.55%) Spring
6 4 (3.64%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (2.73%) ADO
7 3 (2.73%) Node.js
7 3 (2.73%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.82%) .NET
8 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.82%) React
8 2 (1.82%) REST
8 2 (1.82%) RESTful
8 2 (1.82%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.18%) Fixed Income
2 31 (28.18%) Derivative
3 23 (20.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (8.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.55%) Equities
6 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.82%) Clustering
9 2 (1.82%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.82%) Wiki
10 1 (0.91%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.91%) EFT
10 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (36.36%) Linux
1 40 (36.36%) Unix
2 8 (7.27%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) CentOS
3 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 32 (29.09%) Low Latency
3 31 (28.18%) Algorithmic Trading
4 20 (18.18%) Agile
5 14 (12.73%) Risk Management
6 10 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (9.09%) UML
7 9 (8.18%) E-Commerce
7 9 (8.18%) Incident Management
7 9 (8.18%) OO
7 9 (8.18%) SDLC
8 8 (7.27%) Software Engineering
9 7 (6.36%) Capacity Management
9 7 (6.36%) Change Management
9 7 (6.36%) High Availability
9 7 (6.36%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 6 (5.45%) Business Analysis
10 6 (5.45%) Scrum
10 6 (5.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (43.64%) Java
2 35 (31.82%) SQL
3 17 (15.45%) C#
4 16 (14.55%) Python
5 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.36%) Bash
7 6 (5.45%) Perl
8 5 (4.55%) C++
8 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.55%) PHP
8 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.64%) Groovy
10 2 (1.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.91%) Clojure
11 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 11 (10.00%) CCNA
2 11 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.55%) QA
2 10 (9.09%) MiFID
3 7 (6.36%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (6.36%) EMIR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (4.55%) Ansible
2 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (23.64%) ION Trading
2 16 (14.55%) Bloomberg
3 13 (11.82%) Solace
3 13 (11.82%) Tradeweb
4 12 (10.91%) MarketAxess
5 11 (10.00%) Cisco
6 10 (9.09%) TIBCO
7 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
7 7 (6.36%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.45%) BT
9 2 (1.82%) Murex
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle
9 2 (1.82%) Splunk
9 2 (1.82%) Sybase
10 1 (0.91%) Finsemble
10 1 (0.91%) Informatica
10 1 (0.91%) Reuters
10 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.91%) SAP
10 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow