FIX Protocol Jobs

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FIX Protocol skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 777 663 894
Rank change year-on-year -114 +231 -163
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 127 260 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.97% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 90 238 318
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,563 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £106,875 £106,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £122,875 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -14.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIX Protocol 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 22,074 26,882 71,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.09% 29.07% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,295 17,588 29,917
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for FIX Protocol in the UK

FIX Protocol
Top 5 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -37 110 £85,000 - 35
England -103 110 £85,000 - 35
Work from Home -28 40 £77,500 -3.13% 9
UK excluding London - 6 - - 7
Scotland - 6 - - 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 24 (18.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (14.17%) Fidessa
2 6 (4.72%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.60%) AWS
2 14 (11.02%) Azure
3 9 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.57%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.57%) Serverless
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.69%) TCP/IP
2 18 (14.17%) DHCP
2 18 (14.17%) DNS
2 18 (14.17%) Firewall
2 18 (14.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (3.94%) FTP
4 3 (2.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.30%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.72%) Redis
4 5 (3.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.45%) JIRA
2 9 (7.09%) Git
3 6 (4.72%) Moq
4 2 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (63.78%) Finance
2 63 (49.61%) Banking
3 45 (35.43%) Front Office
4 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
5 17 (13.39%) Back Office
6 13 (10.24%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.72%) Law
8 6 (4.72%) Private Banking
9 5 (3.94%) Advertising
10 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (36.22%) Developer
2 37 (29.13%) Analyst
3 33 (25.98%) Support Analyst
4 31 (24.41%) Applications Support
5 26 (20.47%) Java Developer
6 21 (16.54%) Applications Support Analyst
7 19 (14.96%) Senior
8 16 (12.60%) Senior Developer
9 14 (11.02%) Quantitative Developer
10 13 (10.24%) Financial Analyst
10 13 (10.24%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (9.45%) 1st Line Support
11 12 (9.45%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 12 (9.45%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 12 (9.45%) FIX Analyst
11 12 (9.45%) FIX Support Analyst
11 12 (9.45%) Systems Support Analyst
11 12 (9.45%) Technical Support
11 12 (9.45%) Technical Support Analyst
12 11 (8.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.96%) .NET
2 17 (13.39%) HTML
3 16 (12.60%) AngularJS
3 16 (12.60%) CSS
4 14 (11.02%) React
5 13 (10.24%) ASP.NET
5 13 (10.24%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (9.45%) REST
7 11 (8.66%) .NET Framework
8 10 (7.87%) jQuery
9 8 (6.30%) CSS3
9 8 (6.30%) HTML5
10 7 (5.51%) Spring
11 6 (4.72%) Ajax
11 6 (4.72%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 6 (4.72%) Entity Framework
11 6 (4.72%) Kafka
11 6 (4.72%) LINQ
11 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 6 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (16.54%) Onboarding
3 19 (14.96%) Fixed Income
4 18 (14.17%) Equities
4 18 (14.17%) Eurex
5 16 (12.60%) Hedge funds
6 12 (9.45%) Cloud Native
7 11 (8.66%) Derivative
8 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
9 6 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (4.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
11 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.57%) FPGA
12 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.79%) OTC Derivatives
13 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (49.61%) Linux
2 31 (24.41%) Windows
3 30 (23.62%) Unix
4 18 (14.17%) CentOS
5 13 (10.24%) Solaris
5 13 (10.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (28.35%) Client Onboarding
2 32 (25.20%) ITIL
3 25 (19.69%) Incident Management
4 22 (17.32%) Electronic Trading
5 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.75%) Fintech
7 19 (14.96%) Agile
7 19 (14.96%) Low Latency
7 19 (14.96%) Software Engineering
8 17 (13.39%) Algorithmic Trading
9 15 (11.81%) Workflow
10 14 (11.02%) Asset Management
10 14 (11.02%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.02%) High-Frequency Trading
11 13 (10.24%) MVC
12 12 (9.45%) Market Making
12 12 (9.45%) Microservices
12 12 (9.45%) Multithreading
12 12 (9.45%) Software Testing
13 11 (8.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) SQL
2 50 (39.37%) Java
3 46 (36.22%) Python
4 33 (25.98%) JavaScript
5 30 (23.62%) PowerShell
6 19 (14.96%) Bash
7 18 (14.17%) C#
7 18 (14.17%) Perl
7 18 (14.17%) Ruby
8 11 (8.66%) C++
9 7 (5.51%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.72%) T-SQL
11 5 (3.94%) Clojure
11 5 (3.94%) Groovy
11 5 (3.94%) Scala
12 4 (3.15%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.36%) Go
14 2 (1.57%) Rust
14 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Degree
2 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.57%) ISEB
3 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) SLA
2 9 (7.09%) MiFID
3 4 (3.15%) EMIR
3 4 (3.15%) QA
4 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 9 (7.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
3 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (20.47%) ION Trading
1 26 (20.47%) Oracle
2 25 (19.69%) Bloomberg
3 23 (18.11%) Reuters
4 18 (14.17%) CQG
4 18 (14.17%) Patsystems
4 18 (14.17%) Red Hat
4 18 (14.17%) Trayport
5 14 (11.02%) Microsoft
6 8 (6.30%) Algorithmics
6 8 (6.30%) IBM
7 6 (4.72%) PeopleSoft
8 4 (3.15%) Solace
9 2 (1.57%) MarketAxess
9 2 (1.57%) Murex
9 2 (1.57%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.57%) Sybase
9 2 (1.57%) Tradeweb
10 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.79%) Sun