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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 68 98
Rank change year-on-year -42 +30 -17
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 27 125 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.12% 3.41% 2.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.63% 9.60% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 96 68
10th Percentile £613 £621 £571
25th Percentile £658 £625 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £729 £750 £793
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -5.45% +17.52%
75th Percentile £863 £853 £913
90th Percentile £875 £1,063 £966
London median daily rate £800 £750 £728
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.09% +7.78%

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 744 1,302 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.76% 35.49% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 884 1,144
10th Percentile £300 £313 £400
25th Percentile £440 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 30
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 £35.00 £30.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% -22.05% +140.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 £80.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
% change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -39 27 £729 -2.83% 6
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 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
1 1 (3.70%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Collibra
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) KDB
2 3 (11.11%) Metadata
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) Data Mart
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
1 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Gradle
2 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 7 (25.93%) Front Office
4 6 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Governance Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Murex Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Pricing Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Java Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.11%) Middleware
2 3 (11.11%) Rendezvous
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) Murex MxML
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) Blazor
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) FpML
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) NgRx
4 1 (3.70%) RxJS
4 1 (3.70%) Sass
4 1 (3.70%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Derivative
1 4 (14.81%) Equities
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Low Latency
2 6 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
3 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) OO
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance Strategy
5 3 (11.11%) Data Management
5 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 3 (11.11%) Multithreaded Programming
5 3 (11.11%) Release Management
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.41%) Batch Processing
6 2 (7.41%) Batch Scheduling
6 2 (7.41%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Solace
2 4 (14.81%) TIBCO
3 3 (11.11%) Murex
4 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.70%) OpenLink
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle