Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 512 474
Rank change year-on-year +152 -38 -48
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 778 530 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.27% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 651 452 931
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,875 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £156,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -7.41%

All Generic Skills
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX) is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +143 729 £115,000 +9.52% 188
London +152 646 £115,000 +9.52% 159
Work from Home +256 489 £115,000 +15.00% 66
UK excluding London +36 117 £55,000 -4.35% 32
South West +10 39 £42,015 -6.63% 8
Scotland -28 35 - - 5
South East -4 23 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East of England -4 10 - - 5
West Midlands +13 4 £32,000 - 2
Midlands -3 4 £32,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 - 3
North of England +41 2 - - 4
North West 0 2 - - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

Foreign Exchange (FX)
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
1 278 (35.73%) Apache Airflow
2 277 (35.60%) Apache
3 21 (2.70%) GemFire
4 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.77%) nginx
7 3 (0.39%) OpenZeppelin
7 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Confluence
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.80%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 470 (60.41%) AWS
2 274 (35.22%) dbt
3 252 (32.39%) Snowflake
4 221 (28.41%) GCP
5 130 (16.71%) Azure
6 28 (3.60%) Power Platform
7 22 (2.83%) Power Automate
8 10 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.16%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.16%) Serverless
10 7 (0.90%) SaaS
11 6 (0.77%) WhatsApp
12 5 (0.64%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.51%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.16%) Wireless
2 6 (0.77%) 3G
2 6 (0.77%) 4G
2 6 (0.77%) LTE
2 6 (0.77%) OpenVPN
2 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.77%) VSAT
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) IPFS
4 3 (0.39%) LAN
4 3 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (35.22%) Apache Arrow
1 274 (35.22%) Dremio
2 266 (34.19%) Amazon Athena
2 266 (34.19%) Apache Ignite
3 260 (33.42%) Data Lake
4 31 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (2.70%) CockroachDB
5 21 (2.70%) Hazelcast
6 20 (2.57%) Power BI
6 20 (2.57%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.67%) Tableau
8 9 (1.16%) DB2
9 8 (1.03%) Big Data
10 7 (0.90%) MySQL
11 4 (0.51%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.26%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.26%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (2.70%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.67%) JIRA
3 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.51%) Git
4 4 (0.51%) GitLab
5 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.39%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.39%) Maven
5 3 (0.39%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.39%) Protractor
5 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GCC
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) Gradle
7 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 660 (84.83%) Finance
2 491 (63.11%) Front Office
3 374 (48.07%) Banking
4 362 (46.53%) Investment Banking
5 113 (14.52%) Social Skills
6 76 (9.77%) Law
7 72 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.68%) Back Office
9 41 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.06%) Legal
12 16 (2.06%) Marketing
13 14 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.77%) Military
14 6 (0.77%) Retail
15 5 (0.64%) Games
16 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.51%) General Ledger
17 3 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 309 (39.72%) Developer
2 277 (35.60%) Software Engineer
3 200 (25.71%) Senior
4 169 (21.72%) Lead
5 153 (19.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 142 (18.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 129 (16.58%) Analyst
8 115 (14.78%) Java Engineer
8 115 (14.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 106 (13.62%) Python Engineer
9 106 (13.62%) Python Software Engineer
10 103 (13.24%) Senior Developer
11 96 (12.34%) .NET Developer
12 95 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
13 92 (11.83%) AWS Software Engineer
14 91 (11.70%) Java Developer
15 84 (10.80%) Lead Software Engineer
16 83 (10.67%) .NET Software Engineer
17 82 (10.54%) Lead Developer
18 81 (10.41%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (35.73%) Pandas
2 276 (35.48%) gRPC
2 276 (35.48%) Protocol Buffers
3 265 (34.06%) NumPy
3 265 (34.06%) SciPy
4 126 (16.20%) AngularJS
5 122 (15.68%) .NET
6 118 (15.17%) React
7 93 (11.95%) Vue
8 87 (11.18%) Redux
9 70 (9.00%) .NET Core
10 52 (6.68%) Spring Boot
11 43 (5.53%) Spring
12 41 (5.27%) ASP.NET
13 38 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 29 (3.73%) FIX Protocol
15 26 (3.34%) REST
16 25 (3.21%) CSS
17 24 (3.08%) Kafka
18 23 (2.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 477 (61.31%) Equities
2 467 (60.03%) Fixed Income
3 453 (58.23%) Derivative
4 437 (56.17%) Hedge funds
5 70 (9.00%) Product Ownership
6 36 (4.63%) Pricing Data
7 25 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.70%) Replication
9 19 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.31%) OTC Derivatives
11 14 (1.80%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.16%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.16%) Credit Risk
14 8 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (0.90%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.04%) Linux
2 16 (2.06%) Unix
3 12 (1.54%) Windows
4 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.77%) CentOS
6 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (60.93%) Agile
2 446 (57.33%) Asset Management
3 428 (55.01%) Software Engineering
4 370 (47.56%) Investment Management
5 113 (14.52%) Fintech
6 112 (14.40%) Greeks
7 107 (13.75%) Line Management
8 97 (12.47%) Analytics
9 77 (9.90%) Full Stack Development
10 67 (8.61%) DevOps
10 67 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (8.23%) Machine Learning
12 63 (8.10%) Artificial Intelligence
13 59 (7.58%) Low Latency
13 59 (7.58%) TDD
14 42 (5.40%) Computer Science
14 42 (5.40%) Product Management
15 41 (5.27%) Electronic Trading
16 38 (4.88%) Multithreading
17 37 (4.76%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 446 (57.33%) Python
2 412 (52.96%) JavaScript
3 398 (51.16%) Java
4 379 (48.71%) TypeScript
5 185 (23.78%) SQL
6 160 (20.57%) C#
7 35 (4.50%) C++
8 21 (2.70%) Groovy
9 14 (1.80%) Ruby
10 12 (1.54%) Scala
11 11 (1.41%) Rust
12 7 (0.90%) C
12 7 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.90%) VBA
13 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.64%) Bash
14 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.51%) PHP
16 3 (0.39%) Erlang
16 3 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 55 (7.07%) Degree
2 15 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.80%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.77%) ACCA
5 6 (0.77%) CIMA
5 6 (0.77%) GCSC
6 5 (0.64%) PhD
6 5 (0.64%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.64%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.53%) QA
3 10 (1.29%) SLA
4 6 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.26%) SEPA
6 1 (0.13%) GDPR
6 1 (0.13%) P3O
6 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 24 (3.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.70%) Grafana
1 21 (2.70%) HAProxy
1 21 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (2.70%) Kibana
1 21 (2.70%) Prometheus
1 21 (2.70%) Zipkin
2 18 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.51%) Control-M
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.47%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 21 (2.70%) Splunk
4 20 (2.57%) SAP
5 17 (2.19%) Alteryx
6 14 (1.80%) BISAM
7 13 (1.67%) Oracle
8 8 (1.03%) Murex
9 6 (0.77%) Cisco
9 6 (0.77%) FFastFill
9 6 (0.77%) HP
9 6 (0.77%) Refinitiv
10 5 (0.64%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.39%) Citrix
12 3 (0.39%) Foundry
12 3 (0.39%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.39%) VMware
13 2 (0.26%) Sophis