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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 434 649
Rank change year-on-year -36 +215 -137
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 109 271 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 2.04% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 238 173
10th Percentile £550 £546 £525
25th Percentile £650 £588 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -5.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £788
90th Percentile £1,250 £841 £820
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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 108 £751 +15.46% 64
London -37 106 £763 +17.35% 63
Work from Home +82 39 £763 +17.35% 18
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
UK excluding London - 2 £356 - 14

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 13 (11.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) CMS
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (10.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (10.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (13.76%) ION MarketView
2 12 (11.01%) ION Anvil
3 3 (2.75%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.92%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.67%) AWS
1 4 (3.67%) Azure
1 4 (3.67%) WhatsApp
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.92%) Contentful
2 1 (0.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (2.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) FTP
3 1 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) Multicast
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.34%) KDB
3 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.67%) MySQL
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) JIRA
2 12 (11.01%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.75%) Git
4 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) Gatling
5 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.92%) JMeter
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (55.05%) Banking
1 60 (55.05%) Finance
2 38 (34.86%) Investment Banking
3 24 (22.02%) Front Office
4 18 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Back Office
7 3 (2.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Developer
2 22 (20.18%) Java Developer
3 21 (19.27%) Business Analyst
4 17 (15.60%) Analyst
5 13 (11.93%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
5 13 (11.93%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 12 (11.01%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 12 (11.01%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 12 (11.01%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 12 (11.01%) Lead
6 12 (11.01%) Quantitative Developer
7 11 (10.09%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 10 (9.17%) Senior
8 10 (9.17%) Technical Leader
9 9 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.34%) Project Manager
11 7 (6.42%) Applications Support
11 7 (6.42%) FIX Business Analyst
12 6 (5.50%) Financial Services Project Manager
13 5 (4.59%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.68%) XML
2 7 (6.42%) HTML
3 6 (5.50%) Middleware
3 6 (5.50%) Rendezvous
4 5 (4.59%) CSS
4 5 (4.59%) pytest
5 4 (3.67%) HTML5
5 4 (3.67%) Kafka
5 4 (3.67%) Spring
5 4 (3.67%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (3.67%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.75%) ADO
6 3 (2.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.83%) .NET
7 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.83%) React
7 2 (1.83%) REST
7 2 (1.83%) RESTful
7 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (39.45%) Fixed Income
2 33 (30.28%) Derivative
3 24 (22.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (8.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.59%) Equities
7 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.83%) Clustering
9 2 (1.83%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.83%) Wiki
10 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.92%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 39 (35.78%) Linux
1 39 (35.78%) Unix
2 7 (6.42%) Windows
3 4 (3.67%) CentOS
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.38%) Electronic Trading
2 33 (30.28%) Low Latency
3 32 (29.36%) Algorithmic Trading
4 18 (16.51%) Agile
5 16 (14.68%) Risk Management
6 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (10.09%) Data Modelling
7 11 (10.09%) UML
8 10 (9.17%) Incident Management
9 8 (7.34%) Capacity Management
9 8 (7.34%) Change Management
9 8 (7.34%) E-Commerce
9 8 (7.34%) High Availability
9 8 (7.34%) OO
9 8 (7.34%) SDLC
10 6 (5.50%) Business Analysis
10 6 (5.50%) Project Management
10 6 (5.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (5.50%) TDD
10 6 (5.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 44 (40.37%) Java
2 32 (29.36%) SQL
3 17 (15.60%) C#
4 12 (11.01%) Python
5 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.50%) Bash
7 5 (4.59%) C++
7 5 (4.59%) Perl
8 4 (3.67%) PHP
8 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.92%) Clojure
10 1 (0.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.92%) Scala
10 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Degree
2 11 (10.09%) CCNA
2 11 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) QA
2 11 (10.09%) MiFID
3 8 (7.34%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (7.34%) EMIR
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.92%) Grafana
4 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (23.85%) ION Trading
2 16 (14.68%) Bloomberg
3 13 (11.93%) MarketAxess
3 13 (11.93%) Tradeweb
4 11 (10.09%) Cisco
5 9 (8.26%) Solace
5 9 (8.26%) TIBCO
6 6 (5.50%) BT
6 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.75%) Murex
7 3 (2.75%) Sybase
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle
8 2 (1.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.92%) Charles River
9 1 (0.92%) FactSet
9 1 (0.92%) Informatica
9 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.92%) SAP
9 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow