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 have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 494 446
Rank change year-on-year +123 -48 -34
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 693 589 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.57% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.33% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 564 505 982
10th Percentile £60,375 £53,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £84,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,962 44,378 73,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.75% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,979 34,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £84,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 14 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 2 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
England +108 644 £112,500 +12.50% 197
London +117 562 £115,000 +12.20% 169
Work from Home +213 384 £115,000 +17.95% 62
UK excluding London +49 118 £55,000 -4.35% 28
South West +10 39 £40,000 -11.11% 12
Scotland -26 37 £45,000 -35.71% 2
South East +8 23 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England +14 10 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands +27 3 £32,000 - 3
Midlands +10 3 £32,000 - 4
North of England +37 2 - - 1
North West -1 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

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
1 186 (26.84%) Apache Airflow
2 179 (25.83%) Apache
3 21 (3.03%) GemFire
4 17 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.01%) nginx
7 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.43%) OpenZeppelin
9 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.02%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 373 (53.82%) AWS
2 195 (28.14%) GCP
3 172 (24.82%) dbt
4 158 (22.80%) Snowflake
5 137 (19.77%) Azure
6 20 (2.89%) Power Automate
7 18 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.59%) Serverless
10 9 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.15%) SaaS
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.01%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.87%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) Azure Functions
15 4 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.30%) Wireless
2 7 (1.01%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.87%) 3G
3 6 (0.87%) 4G
3 6 (0.87%) LTE
3 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.87%) VSAT
4 4 (0.58%) HTTP
5 3 (0.43%) Firewall
5 3 (0.43%) IPFS
5 3 (0.43%) LAN
5 3 (0.43%) WAN
6 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (25.40%) Amazon Athena
2 172 (24.82%) Apache Arrow
2 172 (24.82%) Apache Ignite
2 172 (24.82%) Dremio
3 158 (22.80%) Data Lake
4 34 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (3.03%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.03%) Hazelcast
6 19 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.44%) Power BI
8 9 (1.30%) DB2
9 8 (1.15%) MySQL
10 7 (1.01%) Tableau
11 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.43%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.43%) Redis
12 3 (0.43%) Tick Data
13 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (3.03%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.88%) JIRA
3 9 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.72%) Git
5 4 (0.58%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.43%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.43%) Maven
6 3 (0.43%) NetBeans
6 3 (0.43%) Protractor
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.29%) GCC
7 2 (0.29%) GDB
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 557 (80.38%) Finance
2 399 (57.58%) Front Office
3 273 (39.39%) Banking
4 262 (37.81%) Investment Banking
5 118 (17.03%) Social Skills
6 76 (10.97%) Law
7 74 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (7.50%) Back Office
9 41 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (4.91%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.31%) Legal
12 16 (2.31%) Marketing
13 14 (2.02%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.87%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.87%) Military
14 6 (0.87%) Retail
15 5 (0.72%) Games
16 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 310 (44.73%) Developer
2 227 (32.76%) Software Engineer
3 169 (24.39%) Senior
4 143 (20.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 139 (20.06%) Lead
6 130 (18.76%) Analyst
7 108 (15.58%) Senior Software Engineer
8 106 (15.30%) Senior Developer
9 105 (15.15%) .NET Developer
10 87 (12.55%) .NET Software Engineer
11 85 (12.27%) .NET Software Developer
12 83 (11.98%) Java Developer
13 79 (11.40%) Java Engineer
14 78 (11.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 77 (11.11%) Business Analyst
16 72 (10.39%) Lead Software Engineer
17 71 (10.25%) Lead Developer
17 71 (10.25%) Python Engineer
17 71 (10.25%) Python Software Engineer
18 68 (9.81%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (27.13%) Pandas
2 184 (26.55%) gRPC
2 184 (26.55%) Protocol Buffers
3 172 (24.82%) NumPy
4 171 (24.68%) SciPy
5 134 (19.34%) AngularJS
6 129 (18.61%) .NET
7 128 (18.47%) React
8 99 (14.29%) Vue
9 93 (13.42%) Redux
10 74 (10.68%) .NET Core
11 47 (6.78%) ASP.NET
12 46 (6.64%) Spring Boot
13 44 (6.35%) Spring
14 42 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
15 30 (4.33%) REST
16 29 (4.18%) Kafka
17 28 (4.04%) FIX Protocol
18 26 (3.75%) CSS
19 24 (3.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 384 (55.41%) Equities
2 376 (54.26%) Fixed Income
3 358 (51.66%) Derivative
4 341 (49.21%) Hedge funds
5 60 (8.66%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 21 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.03%) Replication
8 18 (2.60%) OTC Derivatives
8 18 (2.60%) Pricing Data
9 17 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.02%) Credit Derivative
11 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.30%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.15%) Credit Risk
14 7 (1.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 7 (1.01%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.36%) Linux
2 14 (2.02%) Windows
3 13 (1.88%) Unix
4 9 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.01%) CentOS
6 4 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (54.26%) Agile
2 349 (50.36%) Asset Management
3 342 (49.35%) Software Engineering
4 301 (43.43%) Investment Management
5 125 (18.04%) Fintech
6 94 (13.56%) Analytics
7 80 (11.54%) Full Stack Development
8 75 (10.82%) DevOps
9 73 (10.53%) Line Management
10 68 (9.81%) Greeks
11 63 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (9.09%) TDD
12 61 (8.80%) Machine Learning
13 60 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
13 60 (8.66%) Low Latency
14 47 (6.78%) Computer Science
15 44 (6.35%) Electronic Trading
16 39 (5.63%) Microservices
17 38 (5.48%) Multithreading
17 38 (5.48%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 347 (50.07%) Python
2 326 (47.04%) JavaScript
3 311 (44.88%) Java
4 294 (42.42%) TypeScript
5 177 (25.54%) SQL
6 166 (23.95%) C#
7 46 (6.64%) C++
8 21 (3.03%) Groovy
9 12 (1.73%) Ruby
9 12 (1.73%) Scala
10 9 (1.30%) Rust
11 8 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.01%) C
12 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.01%) VBA
13 5 (0.72%) Bash
13 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.58%) PHP
15 3 (0.43%) Erlang
15 3 (0.43%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 59 (8.51%) Degree
2 17 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.87%) ACCA
5 6 (0.87%) CIMA
5 6 (0.87%) GCSC
6 5 (0.72%) PhD
7 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.43%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.43%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 51 (7.36%) QA
3 10 (1.44%) SLA
4 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) COREP
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.14%) P3O
6 1 (0.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 27 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (3.17%) Grafana
1 22 (3.17%) Kibana
1 22 (3.17%) Prometheus
2 21 (3.03%) HAProxy
2 21 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (3.03%) Zipkin
3 17 (2.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (5.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.75%) Bloomberg
3 21 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 21 (3.03%) SAP
3 21 (3.03%) Splunk
4 17 (2.45%) Alteryx
5 14 (2.02%) BISAM
6 13 (1.88%) Oracle
7 8 (1.15%) Murex
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco
8 6 (0.87%) FFastFill
8 6 (0.87%) HP
8 6 (0.87%) Refinitiv
8 6 (0.87%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.43%) Citrix
10 3 (0.43%) Foundry
10 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.43%) Solace
10 3 (0.43%) VMware