Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 136 252 239
Rank change year-on-year +116 -13 -49
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 542 510 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.31% 1.42% 1.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.74% 3.08% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 501 463 930
10th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £72,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £102,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +23.29%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
England median annual salary £112,500 £100,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,444 16,554 32,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.23% 46.22% 49.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,719 11,032 15,382
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,192 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £122,500 £120,000
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in London

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 London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 29 £95,000 -7.32% 14
East London +22 1 £75,000 -11.76%
Foreign Exchange (FX)
England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 160 (29.52%) Apache Airflow
2 152 (28.04%) Apache
3 7 (1.29%) nginx
4 4 (0.74%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 347 (64.02%) AWS
2 191 (35.24%) GCP
3 146 (26.94%) dbt
4 133 (24.54%) Azure
5 132 (24.35%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.03%) Serverless
7 8 (1.48%) Amazon S3
7 8 (1.48%) SaaS
8 7 (1.29%) WhatsApp
9 6 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.92%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.74%) GitHub
12 3 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.29%) OpenVPN
2 3 (0.55%) Firewall
2 3 (0.55%) LAN
2 3 (0.55%) WAN
2 3 (0.55%) Wireless
3 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) NAS
4 1 (0.18%) SAN
4 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (27.86%) Amazon Athena
2 146 (26.94%) Apache Arrow
2 146 (26.94%) Apache Ignite
2 146 (26.94%) Dremio
3 132 (24.35%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.32%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.48%) DB2
7 7 (1.29%) MySQL
8 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.74%) Redis
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.55%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.37%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau Desktop
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (1.66%) Jenkins
1 9 (1.66%) JIRA
2 5 (0.92%) Git
3 3 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.55%) GitLab
3 3 (0.55%) Maven
3 3 (0.55%) Protractor
4 2 (0.37%) GCC
4 2 (0.37%) GDB
5 1 (0.18%) Gradle
5 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 438 (80.81%) Finance
2 363 (66.97%) Front Office
3 180 (33.21%) Banking
4 175 (32.29%) Investment Banking
5 60 (11.07%) Social Skills
6 50 (9.23%) Back Office
7 28 (5.17%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.11%) Retail
10 5 (0.92%) Games
11 4 (0.74%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.55%) Advertising
12 3 (0.55%) Legal
13 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.18%) Law
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 289 (53.32%) Developer
2 189 (34.87%) Software Engineer
3 150 (27.68%) Senior
4 141 (26.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 110 (20.30%) .NET Developer
6 105 (19.37%) Lead
7 102 (18.82%) Senior Developer
8 97 (17.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 89 (16.42%) .NET Software Engineer
9 89 (16.42%) Analyst
10 87 (16.05%) .NET Software Developer
11 76 (14.02%) Java Developer
12 72 (13.28%) Finance Manager
13 67 (12.36%) Business Analyst
14 66 (12.18%) Lead Developer
15 60 (11.07%) Python Engineer
15 60 (11.07%) Python Software Engineer
15 60 (11.07%) Senior Software Developer
16 49 (9.04%) Senior .NET Developer
17 47 (8.67%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (30.07%) Pandas
2 158 (29.15%) gRPC
2 158 (29.15%) Protocol Buffers
3 146 (26.94%) NumPy
4 145 (26.75%) SciPy
5 133 (24.54%) AngularJS
6 131 (24.17%) React
7 125 (23.06%) .NET
8 101 (18.63%) Vue
9 94 (17.34%) Redux
10 76 (14.02%) .NET Core
11 50 (9.23%) ASP.NET
12 44 (8.12%) ASP.NET Core
13 22 (4.06%) Spring Boot
14 20 (3.69%) Spring
15 19 (3.51%) CSS
15 19 (3.51%) HTML
16 18 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
17 14 (2.58%) Hibernate
17 14 (2.58%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 360 (66.42%) Equities
2 350 (64.58%) Fixed Income
3 318 (58.67%) Derivative
4 311 (57.38%) Hedge funds
5 50 (9.23%) Product Ownership
6 25 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.21%) Pricing Data
8 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.66%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
12 4 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (0.74%) Ray Tracing
12 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.55%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.49%) Linux
2 12 (2.21%) Windows
3 11 (2.03%) Unix
4 9 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.29%) CentOS
6 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Android
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (60.15%) Asset Management
2 303 (55.90%) Agile
3 293 (54.06%) Software Engineering
4 284 (52.40%) Investment Management
5 109 (20.11%) Fintech
6 98 (18.08%) Analytics
7 78 (14.39%) Full Stack Development
8 67 (12.36%) DevOps
9 65 (11.99%) Line Management
10 59 (10.89%) Low Latency
11 57 (10.52%) TDD
12 56 (10.33%) Greeks
13 55 (10.15%) Machine Learning
14 54 (9.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 47 (8.67%) Computer Science
16 43 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (7.20%) Electronic Trading
18 37 (6.83%) Multithreading
18 37 (6.83%) Portfolio Management
19 36 (6.64%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 321 (59.23%) Python
2 287 (52.95%) JavaScript
3 265 (48.89%) TypeScript
4 249 (45.94%) Java
5 157 (28.97%) C#
6 151 (27.86%) SQL
7 48 (8.86%) C++
8 12 (2.21%) Ruby
8 12 (2.21%) Scala
9 7 (1.29%) C
9 7 (1.29%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.29%) VBA
10 5 (0.92%) Bash
10 5 (0.92%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.92%) Rust
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Erlang
13 2 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (8.12%) Degree
2 20 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.95%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.92%) PhD
6 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.18%) ACCA
7 1 (0.18%) CIMA
7 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 53 (9.78%) QA
3 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.37%) SEPA
5 1 (0.18%) COREP
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.18%) P3O
5 1 (0.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 27 (4.98%) Docker
2 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.74%) vSphere
3 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.74%) Control-M
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (4.61%) Bloomberg
2 13 (2.40%) BISAM
3 9 (1.66%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.11%) FFastFill
4 6 (1.11%) Refinitiv
5 5 (0.92%) Murex
5 5 (0.92%) Oracle
5 5 (0.92%) TIBCO
6 4 (0.74%) SAP
6 4 (0.74%) VMware
7 3 (0.55%) Citrix
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.37%) Calypso
8 2 (0.37%) Charles River
8 2 (0.37%) Databricks
8 2 (0.37%) IBM
8 2 (0.37%) Solace
9 1 (0.18%) HP
9 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Vertica