FIX Protocol Contracts in London

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIX Protocol over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 242 400
Rank change year-on-year -57 +158 -73
Contract jobs citing FIX Protocol 101 267 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 1.06% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 3.99% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 237 173
10th Percentile £540 £538 £525
25th Percentile £663 £588 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £868 £738 £788
90th Percentile £1,250 £836 £825
England median daily rate £775 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% +3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

FIX Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,671 6,684 11,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.42% 26.58% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,027 9,240
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £846 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 42 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £31.18 £30.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £47.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% +49.86% -9.94%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.20 £75.39
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

FIX Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing FIX Protocol as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIX Protocol in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for FIX Protocol in London

FIX Protocol
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +23 12 £800 +23.08% 4
FIX Protocol
England

FIX Protocol
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (7.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (7.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (12.87%) ION MarketView
2 12 (11.88%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.99%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.99%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.92%) AWS
2 5 (4.95%) WhatsApp
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (3.96%) Azure
3 4 (3.96%) GitHub
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.99%) Contentful
4 1 (0.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (2.97%) Internet
3 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.99%) FTP
4 1 (0.99%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.90%) KDB
3 5 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.95%) MySQL
4 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) TeamCity
2 12 (11.88%) JIRA
3 6 (5.94%) Git
4 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.96%) GitLab
6 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.97%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.97%) Gradle
6 3 (2.97%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.97%) Maven
7 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.99%) Gatling
8 1 (0.99%) JMeter
8 1 (0.99%) Selenium
8 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (59.41%) Finance
2 58 (57.43%) Banking
3 31 (30.69%) Investment Banking
4 22 (21.78%) Front Office
5 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
6 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.95%) Back Office
8 3 (2.97%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (39.60%) Developer
2 23 (22.77%) Java Developer
3 13 (12.87%) Business Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) Senior
5 11 (10.89%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Lead
5 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Quantitative Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Technical Leader
7 9 (8.91%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Project Manager
9 7 (6.93%) Applications Support
10 6 (5.94%) Financial Services Project Manager
10 6 (5.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) XML
2 8 (7.92%) HTML
2 8 (7.92%) Middleware
3 7 (6.93%) Rendezvous
4 6 (5.94%) CSS
5 5 (4.95%) HTML5
5 5 (4.95%) Kafka
5 5 (4.95%) pytest
5 5 (4.95%) Spring
6 4 (3.96%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (2.97%) ADO
7 3 (2.97%) Node.js
7 3 (2.97%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.98%) .NET
8 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.98%) React
8 2 (1.98%) REST
8 2 (1.98%) RESTful
8 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (38.61%) Fixed Income
2 25 (24.75%) Derivative
3 21 (20.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (8.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 8 (7.92%) Equities
6 7 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
8 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.96%) Hedge funds
10 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.98%) Clustering
11 2 (1.98%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.98%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.98%) TWAP
11 2 (1.98%) VWAP
12 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.99%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 36 (35.64%) Unix
2 35 (34.65%) Linux
3 8 (7.92%) Windows
4 5 (4.95%) CentOS
4 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.53%) Electronic Trading
2 31 (30.69%) Low Latency
3 26 (25.74%) Algorithmic Trading
4 21 (20.79%) Agile
5 12 (11.88%) OO
6 11 (10.89%) Risk Management
7 10 (9.90%) UML
8 9 (8.91%) E-Commerce
8 9 (8.91%) SDLC
8 9 (8.91%) Software Engineering
8 9 (8.91%) TDD
9 8 (7.92%) Data Modelling
9 8 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.93%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 6 (5.94%) Business Analysis
11 6 (5.94%) Design Patterns
11 6 (5.94%) DevOps
11 6 (5.94%) Multithreading
11 6 (5.94%) Project Management
11 6 (5.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.50%) Java
2 33 (32.67%) SQL
3 18 (17.82%) Python
4 17 (16.83%) C#
5 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.93%) Bash
7 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.94%) Perl
8 5 (4.95%) C++
8 5 (4.95%) Groovy
8 5 (4.95%) PHP
8 5 (4.95%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.98%) Scala
10 1 (0.99%) Clojure
10 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) CCNA
1 11 (10.89%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
2 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.86%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) MiFID
3 5 (4.95%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (4.95%) EMIR
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Ansible
1 6 (5.94%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (23.76%) ION Trading
2 14 (13.86%) Bloomberg
2 14 (13.86%) Solace
3 11 (10.89%) Cisco
3 11 (10.89%) Tradeweb
4 10 (9.90%) MarketAxess
4 10 (9.90%) TIBCO
5 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.94%) BT
6 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.98%) Splunk
7 2 (1.98%) Sybase
8 1 (0.99%) Finsemble
8 1 (0.99%) Informatica
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle
8 1 (0.99%) Reuters
8 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow