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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 771 708 888
Rank change year-on-year -63 +180 -209
Permanent jobs citing FIX Protocol 119 275 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.92% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 80 247 308
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £68,525
25th Percentile £60,625 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,938 £107,500 £110,313
90th Percentile £147,500 £126,250 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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 18 May 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 18 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 -37 103 £85,000 -5.56% 55
England -67 103 £85,000 -5.56% 56
Work from Home +7 38 £75,000 -1.32% 16
UK excluding London - 7 - - 12
Scotland - 7 - -

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 23 (19.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.36%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.76%) AWS
2 10 (8.40%) Azure
3 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.52%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.68%) GCP
5 2 (1.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.33%) TCP/IP
2 16 (13.45%) DHCP
2 16 (13.45%) DNS
2 16 (13.45%) Firewall
2 16 (13.45%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.36%) FTP
4 3 (2.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.88%) Redis
4 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.84%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) JIRA
2 10 (8.40%) Git
3 7 (5.88%) Moq
4 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (63.87%) Finance
2 61 (51.26%) Banking
3 42 (35.29%) Front Office
4 19 (15.97%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.61%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.92%) Back Office
7 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.88%) Law
7 7 (5.88%) Private Banking
8 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (33.61%) Developer
2 33 (27.73%) Analyst
3 29 (24.37%) Applications Support
3 29 (24.37%) Support Analyst
4 24 (20.17%) Java Developer
5 19 (15.97%) Applications Support Analyst
6 18 (15.13%) Senior
7 15 (12.61%) Quantitative Developer
8 14 (11.76%) Senior Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Financial Analyst
9 11 (9.24%) Java Quantitative Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Software Engineer
9 11 (9.24%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (8.40%) 1st Line Support Analyst
10 10 (8.40%) 1st Line Technical Support
10 10 (8.40%) Banking Analyst
10 10 (8.40%) FIX Analyst
10 10 (8.40%) FIX Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.29%) .NET
1 17 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 16 (13.45%) CSS
3 15 (12.61%) HTML
4 12 (10.08%) ASP.NET
4 12 (10.08%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (10.08%) React
5 10 (8.40%) .NET Framework
6 9 (7.56%) CSS3
6 9 (7.56%) HTML5
6 9 (7.56%) jQuery
6 9 (7.56%) REST
7 7 (5.88%) Ajax
7 7 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 7 (5.88%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.88%) LINQ
7 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 6 (5.04%) Spring
9 5 (4.20%) Kafka
9 5 (4.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (18.49%) Onboarding
3 20 (16.81%) Fixed Income
4 16 (13.45%) Equities
4 16 (13.45%) Eurex
5 15 (12.61%) Hedge funds
6 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
7 8 (6.72%) Algorithms
8 7 (5.88%) Derivative
8 7 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
9 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.68%) FPGA
11 2 (1.68%) OTC Derivatives
12 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 56 (47.06%) Linux
2 27 (22.69%) Windows
3 26 (21.85%) Unix
4 16 (13.45%) CentOS
5 11 (9.24%) Solaris
5 11 (9.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
2 31 (26.05%) ITIL
3 25 (21.01%) Incident Management
4 23 (19.33%) Electronic Trading
5 22 (18.49%) Agile
6 20 (16.81%) Fintech
7 18 (15.13%) Algorithmic Trading
7 18 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 15 (12.61%) Low Latency
9 15 (12.61%) Workflow
10 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.76%) High-Frequency Trading
11 13 (10.92%) Asset Management
11 13 (10.92%) Market Making
12 12 (10.08%) MVC
13 11 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.24%) Microservices
14 10 (8.40%) Software Testing
15 9 (7.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (46.22%) SQL
2 48 (40.34%) Java
3 42 (35.29%) Python
4 28 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 26 (21.85%) PowerShell
6 17 (14.29%) Bash
7 16 (13.45%) Perl
7 16 (13.45%) Ruby
8 15 (12.61%) C#
9 11 (9.24%) C++
10 7 (5.88%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.36%) Clojure
12 4 (3.36%) Groovy
12 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
12 4 (3.36%) Scala
13 3 (2.52%) Go
14 2 (1.68%) Rust
14 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) Degree
2 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) SLA
2 6 (5.04%) MiFID
3 3 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.68%) EMIR
4 2 (1.68%) QA
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 11 (9.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Kibana
3 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) Oracle
2 24 (20.17%) ION Trading
3 23 (19.33%) Bloomberg
4 20 (16.81%) Reuters
5 16 (13.45%) CQG
5 16 (13.45%) Patsystems
5 16 (13.45%) Red Hat
5 16 (13.45%) Trayport
6 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
7 8 (6.72%) Algorithmics
7 8 (6.72%) IBM
8 4 (3.36%) Murex
8 4 (3.36%) PeopleSoft
8 4 (3.36%) Solace
9 3 (2.52%) MarketAxess
9 3 (2.52%) PagerDuty
9 3 (2.52%) Tradeweb
10 2 (1.68%) Sybase
11 1 (0.84%) SAP
11 1 (0.84%) Sun