Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs with Work from Home Options

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 268 481 428
Rank change year-on-year +213 -53 +11
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 384 198 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 0.47% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.19% 1.21% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 359 177 321
10th Percentile £54,500 £58,750 £66,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £97,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -17.02% +38.24%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £218,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,025 16,389 31,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.55% 38.49% 46.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,253 11,840 16,807
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Foreign Exchange (FX) trend for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 184 (47.92%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (45.05%) Apache
3 7 (1.82%) nginx
3 7 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 275 (71.61%) AWS
2 170 (44.27%) dbt
3 158 (41.15%) Snowflake
4 140 (36.46%) GCP
5 75 (19.53%) Azure
6 14 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.82%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.56%) WhatsApp
11 4 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.04%) SaaS
11 4 (1.04%) Serverless
12 3 (0.78%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.52%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (0.26%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.82%) OpenVPN
2 6 (1.56%) 3G
2 6 (1.56%) 4G
2 6 (1.56%) LTE
2 6 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.56%) VSAT
2 6 (1.56%) Wireless
3 4 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
4 1 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (44.27%) Amazon Athena
1 170 (44.27%) Apache Arrow
1 170 (44.27%) Apache Ignite
1 170 (44.27%) Dremio
2 158 (41.15%) Data Lake
3 13 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.56%) DB2
4 6 (1.56%) Power BI
5 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.26%) Metadata
6 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (1.30%) JIRA
2 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.78%) Protractor
3 2 (0.52%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 329 (85.68%) Finance
2 261 (67.97%) Front Office
3 177 (46.09%) Banking
4 170 (44.27%) Investment Banking
5 55 (14.32%) Social Skills
6 42 (10.94%) Back Office
7 17 (4.43%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.91%) Law
9 14 (3.65%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Military
10 6 (1.56%) Retail
11 5 (1.30%) Games
11 5 (1.30%) Marketing
12 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.04%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.26%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (42.97%) Developer
2 159 (41.41%) Software Engineer
3 139 (36.20%) Senior
4 107 (27.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 100 (26.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 86 (22.40%) Lead
7 83 (21.61%) Senior Developer
8 71 (18.49%) Python Engineer
8 71 (18.49%) Python Software Engineer
9 60 (15.63%) Senior Software Developer
10 57 (14.84%) Java Engineer
10 57 (14.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 52 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (13.54%) AWS Software Engineer
12 51 (13.28%) Lead Developer
13 48 (12.50%) Java Developer
14 47 (12.24%) .NET Developer
14 47 (12.24%) Software Developer
15 45 (11.72%) Senior .NET Developer
16 44 (11.46%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (47.92%) gRPC
1 184 (47.92%) Pandas
1 184 (47.92%) Protocol Buffers
2 170 (44.27%) NumPy
2 170 (44.27%) SciPy
3 78 (20.31%) AngularJS
4 70 (18.23%) React
5 62 (16.15%) .NET
6 56 (14.58%) Vue
7 49 (12.76%) Redux
8 32 (8.33%) ASP.NET
9 30 (7.81%) .NET Core
10 29 (7.55%) ASP.NET Core
11 18 (4.69%) HTML
12 17 (4.43%) CSS
12 17 (4.43%) Spring
12 17 (4.43%) Spring Boot
13 14 (3.65%) Hibernate
13 14 (3.65%) Material-UI
14 11 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 267 (69.53%) Equities
2 261 (67.97%) Fixed Income
3 260 (67.71%) Derivative
4 249 (64.84%) Hedge funds
5 28 (7.29%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.69%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.34%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.04%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (1.04%) Ray Tracing
10 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.52%) FPGA
12 2 (0.52%) Online Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.26%) Contract for Difference
13 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.26%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.99%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Windows
3 7 (1.82%) CentOS
4 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (68.49%) Asset Management
2 253 (65.89%) Software Engineering
3 249 (64.84%) Agile
4 224 (58.33%) Investment Management
5 73 (19.01%) Line Management
6 68 (17.71%) Greeks
7 62 (16.15%) Analytics
8 36 (9.38%) Product Management
9 31 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 31 (8.07%) Machine Learning
10 30 (7.81%) Fintech
10 30 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (5.73%) Full Stack Development
11 22 (5.73%) Low Latency
12 18 (4.69%) Front End Development
13 16 (4.17%) Computer Science
13 16 (4.17%) DevOps
14 15 (3.91%) Mentoring
15 14 (3.65%) Change Control
15 14 (3.65%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 279 (72.66%) Python
2 244 (63.54%) JavaScript
3 240 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 216 (56.25%) Java
5 87 (22.66%) SQL
6 84 (21.88%) C#
7 14 (3.65%) C++
8 12 (3.13%) Ruby
8 12 (3.13%) Scala
9 7 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.04%) C
11 3 (0.78%) Erlang
12 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (7.55%) Degree
2 9 (2.34%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.56%) GCSC
4 4 (1.04%) ACCA
4 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.04%) CIMA
5 2 (0.52%) PhD
6 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.60%) SLA
3 4 (1.04%) QA
4 2 (0.52%) SEPA
5 1 (0.26%) P3O
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) SOC 1
System Software
1 17 (4.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.69%) SAP
3 6 (1.56%) Cisco
3 6 (1.56%) HP
4 4 (1.04%) Murex
5 1 (0.26%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle
5 1 (0.26%) Planview
5 1 (0.26%) Solace