Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 222 264
Rank change year-on-year -69 +42 -28
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 351 731 961
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.22% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 3.67% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 594 807
10th Percentile £543 £550 £538
25th Percentile £650 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £880
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.88% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +49.42% -
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £43.00

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -60 338 £750 - 196
London -36 311 £800 +6.67% 171
Work from Home +5 144 £800 +3.23% 57
UK excluding London +78 27 £600 +20.00% 29
South West +32 11 £570 - 13
Midlands +30 9 £600 - 4
East Midlands +23 6 £600 - 1
West Midlands +32 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £600 - 4
Scotland +33 2 £539 -8.34% 2
North of England +27 1 £625 +25.00% 1
South East +25 1 £600 - 4
North West +10 1 £625 +25.00% 1

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 73 (20.80%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (18.80%) Apache
3 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.99%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.99%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.42%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.42%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.85%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.57%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.28%) Actimize
8 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.28%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.28%) RMDS
8 1 (0.28%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 138 (39.32%) AWS
2 82 (23.36%) GCP
3 65 (18.52%) dbt
4 60 (17.09%) Azure
4 60 (17.09%) Snowflake
5 11 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.56%) GitHub
6 9 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.56%) PowerApps
7 8 (2.28%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.71%) PaaS
9 5 (1.42%) Azure API Management
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.42%) npm
9 5 (1.42%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.14%) Internet
2 3 (0.85%) Firewall
2 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (18.52%) Apache Arrow
1 65 (18.52%) Apache Ignite
1 65 (18.52%) Dremio
2 58 (16.52%) Data Lake
3 23 (6.55%) KDB
4 12 (3.42%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.56%) Data Mart
5 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.42%) Power BI
7 4 (1.14%) Metadata
7 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.57%) Power Query
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (8.26%) JIRA
2 14 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.70%) Git
4 6 (1.71%) GoogleTest
4 6 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.42%) Postman
5 5 (1.42%) webpack
6 4 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Babel
7 2 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 225 (64.10%) Finance
2 188 (53.56%) Front Office
3 159 (45.30%) Banking
4 113 (32.19%) Investment Banking
5 61 (17.38%) Social Skills
6 27 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.42%) Back Office
8 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.71%) Wholesale Banking
9 5 (1.42%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.14%) Retail
11 3 (0.85%) French Language
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Law
12 2 (0.57%) Legal
12 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 139 (39.60%) Developer
2 79 (22.51%) Software Engineer
3 71 (20.23%) Analyst
4 64 (18.23%) Senior
5 53 (15.10%) Business Analyst
5 53 (15.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 44 (12.54%) Finance Manager
7 43 (12.25%) Lead
8 41 (11.68%) Java Developer
9 38 (10.83%) Senior Developer
10 34 (9.69%) .NET Developer
11 28 (7.98%) Financial Analyst
11 28 (7.98%) Java Engineer
11 28 (7.98%) Java Software Engineer
12 27 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
12 27 (7.69%) Python Engineer
12 27 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
13 26 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (7.41%) Software Asset Manager
13 26 (7.41%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.23%) gRPC
1 71 (20.23%) Pandas
1 71 (20.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 64 (18.23%) NumPy
2 64 (18.23%) SciPy
3 59 (16.81%) React
4 39 (11.11%) .NET
5 26 (7.41%) Redux
6 25 (7.12%) FIX Protocol
7 22 (6.27%) .NET Core
8 20 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.13%) Vue
10 16 (4.56%) CSS
11 15 (4.27%) HTML
12 12 (3.42%) ASP.NET
12 12 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (3.13%) Middleware
14 8 (2.28%) Material-UI
14 8 (2.28%) Rendezvous
14 8 (2.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 166 (47.29%) Fixed Income
2 163 (46.44%) Derivative
3 151 (43.02%) Equities
4 123 (35.04%) Hedge funds
5 34 (9.69%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.99%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (3.13%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.14%) Pricing Data
15 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
15 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.84%) Unix
2 23 (6.55%) Linux
3 9 (2.56%) Windows
4 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (56.70%) Agile
2 137 (39.03%) Asset Management
3 122 (34.76%) Software Engineering
4 114 (32.48%) Investment Management
5 48 (13.68%) DevOps
6 47 (13.39%) Analytics
6 47 (13.39%) Fintech
7 41 (11.68%) TDD
8 37 (10.54%) Electronic Trading
8 37 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (9.97%) Low Latency
10 32 (9.12%) Line Management
11 31 (8.83%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (8.26%) Machine Learning
13 27 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 25 (7.12%) Roadmaps
15 23 (6.55%) Product Management
16 22 (6.27%) E-Commerce
16 22 (6.27%) Greeks
17 21 (5.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 142 (40.46%) Python
2 135 (38.46%) Java
3 125 (35.61%) JavaScript
4 108 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 59 (16.81%) SQL
6 47 (13.39%) C#
7 19 (5.41%) C++
8 9 (2.56%) Perl
9 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.71%) Ruby
9 6 (1.71%) Scala
10 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.42%) VBA
11 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.57%) VB
12 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) VBScript
12 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (5.98%) Degree
2 11 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.28%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (1.71%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) CCNA
7 3 (0.85%) CISA
7 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.85%) CISM
7 3 (0.85%) CISSP
7 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.57%) ISEB
8 2 (0.57%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.69%) QA
2 28 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.28%) MiFID
3 8 (2.28%) SEPA
4 6 (1.71%) MISRA
5 4 (1.14%) EMIR
5 4 (1.14%) GAAP
6 3 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) COREP
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) P3O
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.14%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Ansible
3 3 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.57%) Terraform
5 1 (0.28%) Control-M
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.27%) Bloomberg
3 17 (4.84%) SAP
4 16 (4.56%) Murex
5 14 (3.99%) Oracle
6 11 (3.13%) BISAM
6 11 (3.13%) ION Trading
6 11 (3.13%) TIBCO
7 9 (2.56%) Solace
8 6 (1.71%) Google
8 6 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.42%) Refinitiv
10 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.85%) Barracuda Networks
11 3 (0.85%) Calypso
11 3 (0.85%) Cisco
11 3 (0.85%) IBM
11 3 (0.85%) Qualys
11 3 (0.85%) Tradeweb
11 3 (0.85%) VMware