Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 200 216
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -26
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 380 656 943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.35% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 4.00% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 538 805
10th Percentile £550 £550 £538
25th Percentile £663 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £884 £850 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year +8.95% +49.42% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,171 16,399 23,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.63% 33.64% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,330 11,395 17,096
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 580 642
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London -22 340 £800 +6.67% 159
South West +28 19 £570 - 11
Midlands +32 9 £600 - 3
East Midlands +23 6 £600 -
East of England - 6 £600 - 7
West Midlands +24 3 - - 3
North West +23 2 £625 +25.00% 4
South East +21 2 £600 - 5
North of England +20 2 £625 +25.00% 4
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 97 (25.53%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (23.95%) Apache
3 7 (1.84%) Confluence
3 7 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.16%) Aladdin
3 8 (2.11%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.32%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.32%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.79%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.79%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.79%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.53%) Endur
7 2 (0.53%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.26%) Actimize
8 1 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 160 (42.11%) AWS
2 90 (23.68%) dbt
3 89 (23.42%) GCP
4 84 (22.11%) Snowflake
5 52 (13.68%) Azure
6 15 (3.95%) GitHub
7 8 (2.11%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.11%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.58%) PaaS
9 5 (1.32%) Azure API Management
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.32%) npm
9 5 (1.32%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.05%) Internet
2 2 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (23.68%) Amazon Athena
1 90 (23.68%) Apache Arrow
1 90 (23.68%) Apache Ignite
1 90 (23.68%) Dremio
2 83 (21.84%) Data Lake
3 27 (7.11%) KDB
4 9 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.84%) Data Mart
7 5 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.05%) Metadata
8 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.79%) Power BI
10 2 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.26%) QlikView
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (9.21%) JIRA
2 21 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.42%) Git
3 13 (3.42%) GoogleTest
4 6 (1.58%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.32%) Postman
5 5 (1.32%) webpack
6 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.53%) Babel
7 2 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 253 (66.58%) Finance
2 216 (56.84%) Front Office
3 182 (47.89%) Banking
4 135 (35.53%) Investment Banking
5 67 (17.63%) Social Skills
6 32 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.68%) Back Office
8 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.58%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.32%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (38.16%) Developer
2 97 (25.53%) Software Engineer
3 77 (20.26%) Senior
4 73 (19.21%) Analyst
5 55 (14.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 53 (13.95%) Business Analyst
7 50 (13.16%) Java Developer
7 50 (13.16%) Lead
8 44 (11.58%) Java Engineer
8 44 (11.58%) Java Software Engineer
9 42 (11.05%) Finance Manager
10 39 (10.26%) Senior Developer
11 36 (9.47%) Python Engineer
11 36 (9.47%) Python Software Engineer
12 35 (9.21%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (8.16%) Financial Analyst
14 30 (7.89%) .NET Developer
14 30 (7.89%) Architect
14 30 (7.89%) Lead Developer
15 28 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (25.00%) gRPC
1 95 (25.00%) Pandas
1 95 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (23.42%) NumPy
2 89 (23.42%) SciPy
3 56 (14.74%) React
4 34 (8.95%) .NET
5 24 (6.32%) FIX Protocol
6 23 (6.05%) Redux
7 21 (5.53%) .NET Core
8 16 (4.21%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.21%) CSS
8 16 (4.21%) HTML
9 14 (3.68%) Qt
9 14 (3.68%) Vue
10 10 (2.63%) Middleware
11 9 (2.37%) ASP.NET
11 9 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (2.11%) Rendezvous
13 7 (1.84%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 191 (50.26%) Fixed Income
2 189 (49.74%) Derivative
3 174 (45.79%) Equities
4 147 (38.68%) Hedge funds
5 37 (9.74%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.16%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.89%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (2.11%) Pricing Data
12 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 4 (1.05%) Equity Derivative
16 3 (0.79%) Market Risk
16 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 3 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.16%) Linux
2 24 (6.32%) Unix
3 9 (2.37%) Windows
4 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (60.79%) Agile
2 161 (42.37%) Asset Management
3 148 (38.95%) Software Engineering
4 130 (34.21%) Investment Management
5 49 (12.89%) DevOps
6 48 (12.63%) Analytics
7 44 (11.58%) Fintech
7 44 (11.58%) Line Management
8 41 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (10.00%) TDD
10 37 (9.74%) Electronic Trading
10 37 (9.74%) Low Latency
11 32 (8.42%) Machine Learning
12 31 (8.16%) Greeks
13 30 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (7.37%) CI/CD
14 28 (7.37%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (6.58%) E-Commerce
15 25 (6.58%) Product Management
16 23 (6.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 174 (45.79%) Python
2 171 (45.00%) Java
3 146 (38.42%) JavaScript
4 128 (33.68%) TypeScript
5 58 (15.26%) SQL
6 43 (11.32%) C#
7 28 (7.37%) C++
8 9 (2.37%) Perl
9 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.58%) Ruby
9 6 (1.58%) Scala
10 5 (1.32%) VBA
11 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.53%) VB
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (4.74%) Degree
2 11 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.11%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (1.58%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.79%) CCNA
7 3 (0.79%) CISA
7 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.79%) CISM
7 3 (0.79%) CISSP
7 3 (0.79%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.89%) QA
3 14 (3.68%) MISRA
4 6 (1.58%) MiFID
4 6 (1.58%) SEPA
5 4 (1.05%) GAAP
6 2 (0.53%) EMIR
7 1 (0.26%) GDPR
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.05%) Docker
3 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.05%) Ansible
2 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.79%) Control-M
4 2 (0.53%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.26%) Bloomberg
3 17 (4.47%) SAP
4 14 (3.68%) Google
4 14 (3.68%) Murex
5 12 (3.16%) BISAM
5 12 (3.16%) ION Trading
6 11 (2.89%) TIBCO
7 10 (2.63%) Oracle
7 10 (2.63%) Solace
8 5 (1.32%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (0.79%) Calypso
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco
10 3 (0.79%) Okta
10 3 (0.79%) Qualys
10 3 (0.79%) Tradeweb
10 3 (0.79%) VMware