Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 103 54
Rank change year-on-year +18 -49 +45
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 39 32 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.95% 1.31% 4.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.75% 4.29% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 105
10th Percentile £464 £464 £590
25th Percentile £575 £622 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £694 £750
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -7.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £825 £864 £850
90th Percentile £890 £905 £1,063
London median daily rate £775 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 678 746 1,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.93% 30.56% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 522 954
10th Percentile £361 £264 £313
25th Percentile £474 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £696 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +13 38 £700 +0.90% 25
City of Westminster - 1 £625 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.56%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.56%) AWS
1 1 (2.56%) Azure
1 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.56%) GCP
1 1 (2.56%) OCI
1 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) KDB
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Looker
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Ant
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (66.67%) Finance
2 19 (48.72%) Front Office
3 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 15 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (38.46%) Banking
5 8 (20.51%) Investment Banking
6 7 (17.95%) Financial Institution
7 5 (12.82%) Back Office
8 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.56%) International Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Analyst
2 15 (38.46%) Developer
3 11 (28.21%) Business Analyst
4 9 (23.08%) Senior
5 8 (20.51%) C# Developer
6 6 (15.38%) Data Analyst
7 5 (12.82%) C++ Developer
7 5 (12.82%) C++/C# Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (10.26%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (7.69%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 3 (7.69%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior C++ Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Support Analyst
9 3 (7.69%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
10 2 (5.13%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (5.13%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.13%) FpML
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) HTML5
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) WPF
3 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.56%) NumPy
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) Polars
3 1 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) WCF
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Equities
2 8 (20.51%) Fixed Income
3 4 (10.26%) Derivative
3 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.13%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.21%) Low Latency
3 10 (25.64%) Agile
4 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
5 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
5 7 (17.95%) Electronic Trading
5 7 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (15.38%) Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.82%) Data Management
7 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
7 5 (12.82%) Project Management
7 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.26%) DevOps
9 3 (7.69%) Market Making
9 3 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (7.69%) Software Delivery
9 3 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) C#
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) C++
4 3 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) R
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) CFA
4 2 (5.13%) MBA
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) EMIR
1 4 (10.26%) MiFID
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (2.56%) Basel II
4 1 (2.56%) Basel III
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Control-M
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Bloomberg
2 4 (10.26%) Murex
2 4 (10.26%) Reuters
3 3 (7.69%) Citrix
3 3 (7.69%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.56%) Calypso
4 1 (2.56%) CQG
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.56%) SAP