Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in the City of London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 51 97
Rank change year-on-year -42 +46 -32
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 32 154 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.45% 4.23% 2.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.69% 11.80% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 103 65
10th Percentile £464 £588 £553
25th Percentile £622 £625 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £864 £855 £875
90th Percentile £905 £1,063 £940
Central London median daily rate £694 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -7.50% +3.45% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the City of London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the City of London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the City of London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the City of London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Orchestrade
2 1 (3.13%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Collibra
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Mart
1 4 (12.50%) KDB
1 4 (12.50%) Metadata
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
1 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Banking
3 8 (25.00%) Front Office
4 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
5 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
6 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) French Language
8 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Law
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Support
6 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Market Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Murex Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) Rendezvous
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) Murex MxML
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) Blazor
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) NgRx
4 1 (3.13%) RxJS
4 1 (3.13%) Sass
4 1 (3.13%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Derivative
2 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Equities
3 2 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Agile
2 6 (18.75%) Low Latency
2 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (15.63%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 4 (12.50%) Data Governance Strategy
4 4 (12.50%) Data Management
4 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) Product Management
4 4 (12.50%) Release Management
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (9.38%) Coaching
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Multithreading
5 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.38%) Scrum
6 2 (6.25%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Perl
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) CCNA
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Murex
3 4 (12.50%) Solace
3 4 (12.50%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.25%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy