Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts with Work from Home Options

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 218 359
Rank change year-on-year +24 +141 -26
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 158 279 286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.11% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.65% 3.53% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 223 212
10th Percentile £615 £550 £463
25th Percentile £700 £688 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £888 £863 £788
90th Percentile - £1,063 £850
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Foreign Exchange (FX) trend for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Foreign Exchange (FX) daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Foreign Exchange (FX) daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 76 (48.10%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (44.30%) Apache
3 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.27%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.27%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.27%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.63%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.86%) AWS
2 70 (44.30%) dbt
3 64 (40.51%) Snowflake
4 42 (26.58%) GCP
5 16 (10.13%) Azure
6 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.90%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub
9 2 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Firewall
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (44.30%) Amazon Athena
1 70 (44.30%) Apache Arrow
1 70 (44.30%) Apache Ignite
1 70 (44.30%) Dremio
2 64 (40.51%) Data Lake
3 8 (5.06%) KDB
4 7 (4.43%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.27%) Data Mart
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.27%) Power BI
6 2 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (2.53%) Git
4 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (81.01%) Finance
2 118 (74.68%) Front Office
3 98 (62.03%) Banking
4 85 (53.80%) Investment Banking
5 20 (12.66%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Back Office
7 3 (1.90%) Retail
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (36.71%) Developer
2 52 (32.91%) Software Engineer
3 44 (27.85%) Senior
4 38 (24.05%) Lead
5 32 (20.25%) Python Engineer
5 32 (20.25%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 30 (18.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (16.46%) Java Engineer
7 26 (16.46%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (15.19%) Software Developer
9 22 (13.92%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (13.92%) AWS Software Engineer
9 22 (13.92%) Lead Developer
9 22 (13.92%) Lead Software Developer
9 22 (13.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (13.92%) Software Team Leader
9 22 (13.92%) Team Leader
10 21 (13.29%) Analyst
11 20 (12.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (48.10%) gRPC
1 76 (48.10%) Pandas
1 76 (48.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 70 (44.30%) NumPy
2 70 (44.30%) SciPy
3 15 (9.49%) React
4 7 (4.43%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (4.43%) HTML
5 6 (3.80%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.80%) Material-UI
5 6 (3.80%) Vue
6 5 (3.16%) CSS
7 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.27%) Murex MxML
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) REST
7 2 (1.27%) Ultra Messaging
7 2 (1.27%) Web Services
7 2 (1.27%) WPF
7 2 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (65.82%) Fixed Income
2 101 (63.92%) Derivative
3 99 (62.66%) Equities
4 82 (51.90%) Hedge funds
5 15 (9.49%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.80%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.63%) Animation
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.96%) Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
3 6 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (65.19%) Agile
2 88 (55.70%) Asset Management
3 79 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 73 (46.20%) Investment Management
5 34 (21.52%) Analytics
6 30 (18.99%) Line Management
7 28 (17.72%) Greeks
8 22 (13.92%) Product Management
9 15 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.86%) Machine Learning
11 12 (7.59%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (6.33%) Low Latency
13 9 (5.70%) OO
14 7 (4.43%) BDD
14 7 (4.43%) Collaborative Culture
14 7 (4.43%) Roadmaps
15 6 (3.80%) Data Architecture
15 6 (3.80%) DevOps
15 6 (3.80%) Mentoring
15 6 (3.80%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 108 (68.35%) Python
2 90 (56.96%) Java
3 84 (53.16%) JavaScript
4 79 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 25 (15.82%) SQL
6 8 (5.06%) C#
7 6 (3.80%) C++
7 6 (3.80%) Perl
7 6 (3.80%) Ruby
7 6 (3.80%) Scala
8 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.53%) VBA
9 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (5.70%) Degree
2 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.16%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (1.27%) CCNA
3 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.53%) MiFID
3 2 (1.27%) EMIR
3 2 (1.27%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) SEPA
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.90%) Ansible
2 2 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) SAP
3 4 (2.53%) Murex
3 4 (2.53%) Oracle
3 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.90%) Qualys
4 3 (1.90%) Solace
4 3 (1.90%) TIBCO
4 3 (1.90%) VMware
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) Calypso
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco
5 2 (1.27%) Okta
5 2 (1.27%) OpenText
5 2 (1.27%) Reuters
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.63%) Concur
6 1 (0.63%) HP
6 1 (0.63%) IBM