Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 468 413
Rank change year-on-year +130 -55 -38
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 677 553 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.61% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 1.42% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 587 472 934
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £69,125
25th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £102,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £101,250 £110,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.95% +10.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,672 38,867 62,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.62% 43.15% 46.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20,820 21,319 30,474
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,474 £34,825
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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)
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +126 594 £115,000 +9.52% 175
South West +20 40 £45,000 - 12
South East +1 23 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East of England +16 10 - - 7
West Midlands +19 3 £32,000 - 3
Midlands +1 3 £32,000 - 3
North of England +43 2 - - 4
North West -2 2 - - 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
1 218 (32.20%) Apache Airflow
2 210 (31.02%) Apache
3 17 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.03%) nginx
6 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.44%) OpenZeppelin
8 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
Applications
1 30 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.07%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 404 (59.68%) AWS
2 207 (30.58%) GCP
3 206 (30.43%) dbt
4 192 (28.36%) Snowflake
5 133 (19.65%) Azure
6 21 (3.10%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.81%) Power Automate
8 12 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.48%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.18%) SaaS
11 8 (1.18%) Serverless
12 6 (0.89%) WhatsApp
13 5 (0.74%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.44%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.44%) Azure Key Vault
15 2 (0.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.33%) Wireless
2 7 (1.03%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.89%) 3G
3 6 (0.89%) 4G
3 6 (0.89%) LTE
3 6 (0.89%) VSAT
4 4 (0.59%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) Firewall
5 3 (0.44%) IPFS
5 3 (0.44%) LAN
5 3 (0.44%) WAN
6 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (30.43%) Amazon Athena
1 206 (30.43%) Apache Arrow
1 206 (30.43%) Apache Ignite
1 206 (30.43%) Dremio
2 192 (28.36%) Data Lake
3 19 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.92%) Power BI
5 12 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.33%) DB2
7 7 (1.03%) MySQL
8 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.74%) Tableau
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.44%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.30%) Redis
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.15%) Power Query
11 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.18%) JIRA
3 4 (0.59%) Git
4 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.44%) GitLab
4 3 (0.44%) Hardhat
4 3 (0.44%) Maven
4 3 (0.44%) NetBeans
4 3 (0.44%) Protractor
4 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.15%) GCC
5 1 (0.15%) GDB
5 1 (0.15%) Gradle
5 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 554 (81.83%) Finance
2 422 (62.33%) Front Office
3 277 (40.92%) Banking
4 267 (39.44%) Investment Banking
5 97 (14.33%) Social Skills
6 51 (7.53%) Back Office
7 45 (6.65%) Law
8 44 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.33%) Legal
13 9 (1.33%) Marketing
14 6 (0.89%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.89%) Military
14 6 (0.89%) Retail
15 5 (0.74%) Games
16 3 (0.44%) Advertising
17 1 (0.15%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 307 (45.35%) Developer
2 222 (32.79%) Software Engineer
3 176 (26.00%) Senior
4 147 (21.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 123 (18.17%) Lead
6 118 (17.43%) Analyst
7 117 (17.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 104 (15.36%) Senior Developer
9 101 (14.92%) .NET Developer
10 87 (12.85%) Java Developer
11 85 (12.56%) .NET Software Engineer
12 83 (12.26%) .NET Software Developer
13 82 (12.11%) Python Engineer
13 82 (12.11%) Python Software Engineer
14 75 (11.08%) Lead Developer
15 72 (10.64%) Finance Manager
16 70 (10.34%) Java Engineer
16 70 (10.34%) Java Software Engineer
17 68 (10.04%) Business Analyst
18 67 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (32.20%) Pandas
2 216 (31.91%) gRPC
2 216 (31.91%) Protocol Buffers
3 206 (30.43%) NumPy
4 205 (30.28%) SciPy
5 131 (19.35%) AngularJS
6 126 (18.61%) .NET
7 121 (17.87%) React
8 95 (14.03%) Vue
9 90 (13.29%) Redux
10 71 (10.49%) .NET Core
11 45 (6.65%) ASP.NET
12 40 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
13 30 (4.43%) Spring Boot
14 24 (3.55%) Spring
15 22 (3.25%) CSS
15 22 (3.25%) HTML
16 20 (2.95%) FIX Protocol
17 18 (2.66%) Hibernate
18 13 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 413 (61.00%) Equities
2 398 (58.79%) Fixed Income
3 379 (55.98%) Derivative
4 367 (54.21%) Hedge funds
5 61 (9.01%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.55%) Pricing Data
7 21 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.66%) OTC Derivatives
9 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.33%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.33%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.03%) Credit Derivative
12 5 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.59%) 3D Graphics
13 4 (0.59%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.59%) Ray Tracing
13 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.09%) Linux
2 14 (2.07%) Unix
3 11 (1.62%) Windows
4 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.03%) CentOS
6 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (56.28%) Asset Management
2 379 (55.98%) Agile
3 351 (51.85%) Software Engineering
4 322 (47.56%) Investment Management
5 110 (16.25%) Fintech
6 91 (13.44%) Line Management
7 89 (13.15%) Analytics
8 80 (11.82%) Full Stack Development
8 80 (11.82%) Greeks
9 70 (10.34%) DevOps
10 65 (9.60%) Machine Learning
11 64 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 59 (8.71%) Low Latency
13 56 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (7.98%) TDD
15 43 (6.35%) Computer Science
16 40 (5.91%) Product Management
17 39 (5.76%) Electronic Trading
18 38 (5.61%) Portfolio Management
19 37 (5.47%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 383 (56.57%) Python
2 353 (52.14%) JavaScript
3 322 (47.56%) TypeScript
4 316 (46.68%) Java
5 160 (23.63%) C#
6 155 (22.90%) SQL
7 42 (6.20%) C++
8 14 (2.07%) Ruby
9 12 (1.77%) Scala
10 10 (1.48%) Rust
11 7 (1.03%) C
11 7 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.03%) VBA
12 6 (0.89%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.74%) Bash
14 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.44%) Erlang
15 3 (0.44%) Solidity
16 2 (0.30%) Perl
17 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (8.27%) Degree
2 17 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.89%) ACCA
5 6 (0.89%) CIMA
5 6 (0.89%) GCSC
6 5 (0.74%) PhD
6 5 (0.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.74%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.82%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.94%) QA
3 6 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.89%) SLA
4 2 (0.30%) SEPA
5 1 (0.15%) COREP
5 1 (0.15%) IFRS
5 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.15%) P3O
5 1 (0.15%) PMO
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 26 (3.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.59%) Control-M
3 2 (0.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.84%) Bloomberg
3 18 (2.66%) SAP
4 17 (2.51%) Alteryx
5 14 (2.07%) BISAM
6 6 (0.89%) Cisco
6 6 (0.89%) FFastFill
6 6 (0.89%) HP
6 6 (0.89%) Murex
6 6 (0.89%) Refinitiv
7 5 (0.74%) Oracle
7 5 (0.74%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.44%) Citrix
8 3 (0.44%) Foundry
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.44%) VMware
9 2 (0.30%) Charles River
9 2 (0.30%) IBM
9 2 (0.30%) Solace