Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in the City of Westminster

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.27% - 5.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.67% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £800
75th Percentile £663 - £850
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £700 £694 £750
% change year-on-year +0.90% -7.50% +1.69%

All Generic Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 25 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 34.09% 56.82% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 17
10th Percentile £363 £475 £385
25th Percentile £403 £507 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £579 £825 £850
90th Percentile £664 £1,031 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 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
Mayfair - 1 £625 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python