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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 500 444
Rank change year-on-year +102 -56 -45
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 645 614 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.58% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 1.34% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 525 531 982
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £142,500 £128,125 £135,000
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 34,504 45,865 71,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 43.06% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22,893 24,449 34,260
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,250
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 £86,250 £83,750
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 19 April 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 19 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
England +102 595 £110,000 +10.00% 190
London +118 522 £115,000 +12.20% 164
Work from Home +183 335 £100,000 +5.26% 54
UK excluding London +56 112 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Scotland -30 37 £45,000 -35.71% 2
South West +21 30 £40,000 -11.11% 8
South East -17 23 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East of England +33 10 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 8 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands +36 3 £32,000 - 3
Midlands +18 3 £32,000 - 4
North of England +46 2 - - 1
North West +6 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
1 136 (21.09%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (19.84%) Apache
3 21 (3.26%) GemFire
4 12 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.09%) nginx
7 4 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.47%) OpenZeppelin
9 2 (0.31%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.86%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 324 (50.23%) AWS
2 186 (28.84%) GCP
3 147 (22.79%) Azure
4 120 (18.60%) dbt
5 106 (16.43%) Snowflake
6 20 (3.10%) Power Automate
7 18 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.86%) Serverless
10 9 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.40%) SaaS
11 8 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.09%) WhatsApp
13 6 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.78%) Azure Functions
14 5 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.40%) Wireless
2 7 (1.09%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.93%) 3G
3 6 (0.93%) 4G
3 6 (0.93%) LTE
3 6 (0.93%) VSAT
4 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.62%) HTTP
6 3 (0.47%) Firewall
6 3 (0.47%) IPFS
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
7 1 (0.16%) NAS
7 1 (0.16%) SAN
7 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (19.38%) Amazon Athena
2 120 (18.60%) Apache Arrow
2 120 (18.60%) Apache Ignite
2 120 (18.60%) Dremio
3 106 (16.43%) Data Lake
4 34 (5.27%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (3.26%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.26%) Hazelcast
6 18 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.55%) Power BI
8 9 (1.40%) MySQL
9 8 (1.24%) DB2
10 7 (1.09%) Tableau
11 5 (0.78%) Redis
11 5 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.47%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.47%) Tick Data
13 2 (0.31%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 21 (3.26%) Jaeger
2 13 (2.02%) JIRA
3 9 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.93%) Git
5 4 (0.62%) GitLab
6 3 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.47%) GCC
6 3 (0.47%) GDB
6 3 (0.47%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.47%) Maven
6 3 (0.47%) NetBeans
6 3 (0.47%) Protractor
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.16%) Gradle
7 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 496 (76.90%) Finance
2 356 (55.19%) Front Office
3 215 (33.33%) Banking
4 202 (31.32%) Investment Banking
5 112 (17.36%) Social Skills
6 67 (10.39%) Law
7 65 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (8.22%) Back Office
9 34 (5.27%) Financial Institution
10 32 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.64%) Legal
12 17 (2.64%) Marketing
13 14 (2.17%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.93%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.93%) Military
14 6 (0.93%) Retail
15 5 (0.78%) Games
16 3 (0.47%) Advertising
16 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 309 (47.91%) Developer
2 198 (30.70%) Software Engineer
3 148 (22.95%) Senior
4 138 (21.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 124 (19.22%) Analyst
6 120 (18.60%) Lead
7 113 (17.52%) .NET Developer
8 106 (16.43%) Senior Developer
9 88 (13.64%) .NET Software Engineer
10 86 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
10 86 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 76 (11.78%) Business Analyst
11 76 (11.78%) Java Developer
12 73 (11.32%) Finance Manager
13 65 (10.08%) Lead Software Engineer
14 63 (9.77%) Lead Developer
15 60 (9.30%) Senior Software Developer
16 57 (8.84%) Java Engineer
17 56 (8.68%) Java Software Engineer
18 51 (7.91%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (21.55%) Pandas
2 137 (21.24%) .NET
3 136 (21.09%) AngularJS
3 136 (21.09%) React
4 134 (20.78%) gRPC
4 134 (20.78%) Protocol Buffers
5 120 (18.60%) NumPy
6 119 (18.45%) SciPy
7 102 (15.81%) Vue
8 94 (14.57%) Redux
9 78 (12.09%) .NET Core
10 54 (8.37%) ASP.NET
11 46 (7.13%) ASP.NET Core
12 42 (6.51%) Spring
12 42 (6.51%) Spring Boot
13 33 (5.12%) REST
14 32 (4.96%) Kafka
15 24 (3.72%) CSS
16 23 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 340 (52.71%) Equities
2 338 (52.40%) Fixed Income
3 310 (48.06%) Derivative
4 293 (45.43%) Hedge funds
5 57 (8.84%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 21 (3.26%) Replication
8 18 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.64%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
10 14 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.40%) OTC Derivatives
12 8 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.09%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.93%) Pricing Data
15 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.06%) Linux
2 15 (2.33%) Windows
3 12 (1.86%) Unix
4 9 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.09%) CentOS
6 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (50.08%) Agile
2 301 (46.67%) Asset Management
3 297 (46.05%) Software Engineering
4 262 (40.62%) Investment Management
5 124 (19.22%) Fintech
6 104 (16.12%) Analytics
7 80 (12.40%) Full Stack Development
8 79 (12.25%) DevOps
9 63 (9.77%) TDD
10 61 (9.46%) Low Latency
11 59 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (8.99%) Machine Learning
13 57 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 57 (8.84%) Line Management
14 47 (7.29%) Computer Science
15 44 (6.82%) Greeks
16 43 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
17 42 (6.51%) Microservices
18 36 (5.58%) Multithreading
18 36 (5.58%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (45.43%) Python
2 280 (43.41%) JavaScript
3 255 (39.53%) Java
4 244 (37.83%) TypeScript
5 173 (26.82%) SQL
6 172 (26.67%) C#
7 53 (8.22%) C++
8 21 (3.26%) Groovy
9 12 (1.86%) Ruby
9 12 (1.86%) Scala
10 7 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.09%) Rust
10 7 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.09%) VBA
11 6 (0.93%) C
11 6 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.78%) Bash
13 4 (0.62%) PHP
14 3 (0.47%) Erlang
14 3 (0.47%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 60 (9.30%) Degree
2 18 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.48%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.93%) ACCA
5 6 (0.93%) CIMA
5 6 (0.93%) GCSC
6 5 (0.78%) PhD
7 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.47%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.47%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.84%) QA
2 44 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.40%) SLA
4 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.31%) SEPA
6 1 (0.16%) COREP
6 1 (0.16%) IFRS
6 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.16%) P3O
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.16%) SOC 1
System Software
1 28 (4.34%) Docker
2 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.62%) vSphere
3 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (3.57%) Grafana
1 23 (3.57%) Kibana
1 23 (3.57%) Prometheus
2 21 (3.26%) HAProxy
2 21 (3.26%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (3.26%) Zipkin
3 18 (2.79%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.62%) Control-M
5 3 (0.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (6.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.57%) Bloomberg
3 21 (3.26%) Dynatrace
3 21 (3.26%) SAP
3 21 (3.26%) Splunk
4 13 (2.02%) Oracle
5 12 (1.86%) BISAM
6 8 (1.24%) Alteryx
6 8 (1.24%) Murex
7 7 (1.09%) HP
8 6 (0.93%) Cisco
8 6 (0.93%) FFastFill
8 6 (0.93%) Refinitiv
8 6 (0.93%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.78%) Calypso
10 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.62%) VMware
11 3 (0.47%) Citrix
11 3 (0.47%) Foundry
11 3 (0.47%) Red Hat