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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 223 261
Rank change year-on-year -42 +38 -24
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 373 692 955
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.19% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.87% 3.58% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 563 806
10th Percentile £549 £550 £538
25th Percentile £650 £627 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.88% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 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 12,985 19,334 29,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.28% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,344 13,272 20,329
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £676 £659
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 639 713
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.10 £65.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

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 7 May 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 7 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
England -50 361 £800 +6.67% 226
London -31 328 £800 +6.67% 190
Work from Home +30 157 £800 +3.23% 72
UK excluding London +89 33 £600 +20.00% 40
South West +31 16 £570 - 14
Midlands +40 9 £600 - 5
East Midlands +25 6 £600 - 1
West Midlands +27 3 - - 4
East of England - 3 £600 - 7
Scotland +45 2 £539 -8.34% 4
North of England +20 2 £625 +25.00% 2
North West +18 2 £625 +25.00% 2
South East +19 1 £600 - 5

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 88 (23.59%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (21.98%) Apache
3 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 12 (3.22%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.14%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.34%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.34%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.80%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.54%) Endur
7 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.54%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.54%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.27%) Actimize
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 151 (40.48%) AWS
2 86 (23.06%) GCP
3 81 (21.72%) dbt
4 75 (20.11%) Snowflake
5 55 (14.75%) Azure
6 14 (3.75%) GitHub
7 11 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.95%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.41%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.41%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.61%) PaaS
11 5 (1.34%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Storage
11 5 (1.34%) npm
11 5 (1.34%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.07%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.07%) Internet
2 3 (0.80%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (21.72%) Amazon Athena
1 81 (21.72%) Apache Arrow
1 81 (21.72%) Apache Ignite
1 81 (21.72%) Dremio
2 74 (19.84%) Data Lake
3 27 (7.24%) KDB
4 12 (3.22%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.14%) Data Mart
5 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.34%) Power BI
7 4 (1.07%) Metadata
7 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.54%) Power Query
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) QlikView
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (9.12%) JIRA
2 18 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.22%) Git
4 10 (2.68%) GoogleTest
5 6 (1.61%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.34%) Postman
6 5 (1.34%) webpack
7 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.54%) Babel
8 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 242 (64.88%) Finance
2 205 (54.96%) Front Office
3 177 (47.45%) Banking
4 130 (34.85%) Investment Banking
5 64 (17.16%) Social Skills
6 31 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.49%) Back Office
8 6 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
9 5 (1.34%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.07%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.07%) Retail
11 2 (0.54%) French Language
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 143 (38.34%) Developer
2 90 (24.13%) Software Engineer
3 75 (20.11%) Analyst
4 72 (19.30%) Senior
5 56 (15.01%) Business Analyst
6 54 (14.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 48 (12.87%) Lead
8 47 (12.60%) Java Developer
9 42 (11.26%) Finance Manager
10 39 (10.46%) Senior Developer
11 38 (10.19%) Java Engineer
11 38 (10.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (8.58%) Python Engineer
12 32 (8.58%) Python Software Engineer
13 31 (8.31%) .NET Developer
13 31 (8.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (8.04%) Financial Analyst
15 28 (7.51%) Architect
15 28 (7.51%) Lead Developer
16 25 (6.70%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (23.06%) gRPC
1 86 (23.06%) Pandas
1 86 (23.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 80 (21.45%) NumPy
2 80 (21.45%) SciPy
3 55 (14.75%) React
4 35 (9.38%) .NET
5 25 (6.70%) FIX Protocol
6 24 (6.43%) Redux
7 21 (5.63%) .NET Core
8 17 (4.56%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.02%) CSS
9 15 (4.02%) HTML
9 15 (4.02%) Vue
10 11 (2.95%) Middleware
10 11 (2.95%) Qt
11 10 (2.68%) ASP.NET
11 10 (2.68%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (2.14%) Rendezvous
12 8 (2.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (48.79%) Fixed Income
2 179 (47.99%) Derivative
3 168 (45.04%) Equities
4 137 (36.73%) Hedge funds
5 36 (9.65%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.88%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.61%) Pricing Data
14 4 (1.07%) Equity Derivative
15 3 (0.80%) Market Risk
15 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.97%) Linux
2 24 (6.43%) Unix
3 9 (2.41%) Windows
4 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (59.25%) Agile
2 151 (40.48%) Asset Management
3 137 (36.73%) Software Engineering
4 123 (32.98%) Investment Management
5 51 (13.67%) DevOps
6 48 (12.87%) Analytics
7 45 (12.06%) Fintech
8 41 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (10.72%) Line Management
10 39 (10.46%) TDD
11 38 (10.19%) Electronic Trading
11 38 (10.19%) Low Latency
12 31 (8.31%) Machine Learning
13 29 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (7.77%) Full Stack Development
14 28 (7.51%) Greeks
15 26 (6.97%) Roadmaps
16 25 (6.70%) CI/CD
16 25 (6.70%) E-Commerce
17 24 (6.43%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (43.70%) Python
2 158 (42.36%) Java
3 137 (36.73%) JavaScript
4 120 (32.17%) TypeScript
5 61 (16.35%) SQL
6 44 (11.80%) C#
7 25 (6.70%) C++
8 9 (2.41%) Perl
9 6 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.61%) Ruby
9 6 (1.61%) Scala
10 5 (1.34%) VBA
11 4 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.54%) VB
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (5.36%) Degree
2 11 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (1.88%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.61%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) CCNA
7 3 (0.80%) CISA
7 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.80%) CISM
7 3 (0.80%) CISSP
7 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.54%) ISEB
8 2 (0.54%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.31%) QA
3 11 (2.95%) MISRA
4 8 (2.14%) MiFID
4 8 (2.14%) SEPA
5 4 (1.07%) EMIR
5 4 (1.07%) GAAP
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) COREP
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.07%) Docker
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.07%) Ansible
2 4 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.54%) Control-M
4 2 (0.54%) Terraform
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.90%) Bloomberg
3 16 (4.29%) SAP
4 15 (4.02%) Murex
5 13 (3.49%) Oracle
6 12 (3.22%) BISAM
6 12 (3.22%) ION Trading
7 11 (2.95%) Google
7 11 (2.95%) TIBCO
8 10 (2.68%) Solace
9 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.34%) Refinitiv
11 4 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
12 3 (0.80%) Calypso
12 3 (0.80%) Cisco
12 3 (0.80%) IBM
12 3 (0.80%) Qualys
12 3 (0.80%) Tradeweb
12 3 (0.80%) VMware