Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 257 448
Rank change year-on-year -108 +191 +53
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 422 963 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.08% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 3.23% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 335 832 422
10th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £59,125
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £136,875
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX) falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,839 29,778 33,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.67% 33.31% 41.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,900 17,736 20,844
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £35,427
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -13.39% +1.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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)
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 11 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 July 2025. 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
England -110 417 £115,000 - 290
London -44 389 £120,000 +4.35% 262
Work from Home -118 264 £127,500 +10.87% 73
UK excluding London +47 31 £65,000 +18.18% 53
North of England +44 18 - - 9
North West +28 18 - - 5
Midlands +40 5 £65,000 +103.13%
West Midlands +33 5 £65,000 +103.13%
Scotland +59 4 - - 2
South West +46 2 £80,000 +49.33% 4
South East +22 2 - - 24

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
1 197 (46.68%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (28.44%) Apache
3 5 (1.18%) Confluence
3 5 (1.18%) GemFire
3 5 (1.18%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.47%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.47%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.47%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (55.21%) AWS
2 197 (46.68%) dbt
3 118 (27.96%) Snowflake
4 112 (26.54%) GCP
5 15 (3.55%) Azure
6 11 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.61%) Dagster
7 7 (1.66%) SaaS
8 5 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.71%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.24%) npm
11 1 (0.24%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) Multicast
2 2 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.47%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Telnet
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (46.68%) Amazon Athena
1 197 (46.68%) Apache Arrow
1 197 (46.68%) Apache Iceberg
1 197 (46.68%) Dremio
2 91 (21.56%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (20.85%) Apache Ignite
4 85 (20.14%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.61%) KDB
5 11 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.18%) Power BI
8 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.95%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.95%) Kdb+
9 4 (0.95%) Redis
9 4 (0.95%) Tick Data
10 3 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 12 (2.84%) Git
2 6 (1.42%) JIRA
3 5 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (1.18%) Gradle
3 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) MSTest
4 3 (0.71%) NUnit
4 3 (0.71%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.71%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 336 (79.62%) Finance
2 277 (65.64%) Front Office
3 196 (46.45%) Banking
4 148 (35.07%) Investment Banking
5 47 (11.14%) Social Skills
6 32 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.50%) Law
8 16 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.90%) Back Office
10 6 (1.42%) Japanese Language
11 5 (1.18%) Games
11 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.47%) French Language
14 2 (0.47%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 234 (55.45%) Software Engineer
2 200 (47.39%) Developer
3 197 (46.68%) AWS Engineer
3 197 (46.68%) AWS Software Engineer
4 150 (35.55%) Java Engineer
5 148 (35.07%) Python Engineer
5 148 (35.07%) Python Software Engineer
6 137 (32.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 135 (31.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 114 (27.01%) AWS Developer
9 108 (25.59%) Senior
10 86 (20.38%) Senior Java Engineer
11 84 (19.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 82 (19.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 76 (18.01%) Python Developer
14 65 (15.40%) Java Developer
15 42 (9.95%) Java Software Developer
16 38 (9.00%) Software Developer
17 32 (7.58%) Snowflake Developer
17 32 (7.58%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (40.05%) Pandas
2 165 (39.10%) NumPy
2 165 (39.10%) SciPy
3 116 (27.49%) React
4 98 (23.22%) AngularJS
5 91 (21.56%) Node.js
6 90 (21.33%) Vue
7 89 (21.09%) gRPC
8 85 (20.14%) Protocol Buffers
9 43 (10.19%) PySpark
10 27 (6.40%) FIX Protocol
10 27 (6.40%) Redux
11 18 (4.27%) Middleware
12 13 (3.08%) Spring
13 11 (2.61%) HTML
13 11 (2.61%) HTML5
13 11 (2.61%) Kafka
13 11 (2.61%) Web Services
14 10 (2.37%) CSS
14 10 (2.37%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 260 (61.61%) Equities
2 251 (59.48%) Fixed Income
3 156 (36.97%) Derivative
4 137 (32.46%) Hedge funds
5 75 (17.77%) Pricing Data
6 39 (9.24%) Algorithms
7 18 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.32%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.84%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.84%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.42%) CMDB
12 6 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.95%) Market Risk
15 3 (0.71%) Credit Risk
15 3 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.35%) Linux
2 11 (2.61%) Windows
3 10 (2.37%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) CentOS
4 2 (0.47%) Rocky
4 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Debian
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (62.32%) Agile
2 252 (59.72%) Software Engineering
3 220 (52.13%) Asset Management
4 182 (43.13%) Investment Management
5 117 (27.73%) Fintech
6 109 (25.83%) Risk Management
7 92 (21.80%) Order Management
8 80 (18.96%) Performance Attribution
9 45 (10.66%) Low Latency
10 39 (9.24%) Electronic Trading
11 38 (9.00%) Algorithmic Trading
11 38 (9.00%) Data Management
12 33 (7.82%) Analytics
13 32 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (5.69%) TDD
15 23 (5.45%) Multithreading
16 20 (4.74%) User Experience
17 19 (4.50%) Mathematics
18 18 (4.27%) Computer Science
18 18 (4.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 221 (52.37%) Python
2 209 (49.53%) Java
3 201 (47.63%) JavaScript
4 198 (46.92%) TypeScript
5 75 (17.77%) SQL
6 31 (7.35%) C#
7 28 (6.64%) C++
8 4 (0.95%) Rust
8 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.71%) Bash
9 3 (0.71%) VBA
10 2 (0.47%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (9.95%) Degree
2 8 (1.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (0.95%) ACCA
3 4 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.95%) PhD
4 3 (0.71%) CISM
4 3 (0.71%) GIAC
4 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.47%) CIMA
6 1 (0.24%) CISA
6 1 (0.24%) CRISC
6 1 (0.24%) MBA
6 1 (0.24%) PMP
6 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.32%) QA
2 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.42%) MiFID
3 3 (0.71%) GAAP
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) GRC
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.24%) SEPA
5 1 (0.24%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.18%) Grafana
2 3 (0.71%) Control-M
2 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (3.79%) Oracle
2 15 (3.55%) Bloomberg
3 10 (2.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.37%) TIBCO
4 9 (2.13%) Solace
5 8 (1.90%) SAP
6 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.95%) Sage
8 3 (0.71%) Calypso
8 3 (0.71%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.71%) Refinitiv
8 3 (0.71%) Reuters
8 3 (0.71%) Splunk
9 2 (0.47%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.47%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (0.47%) CQG
9 2 (0.47%) FFastFill
9 2 (0.47%) Patsystems
9 2 (0.47%) Red Hat