Foreign Exchange (FX) Contract Job Trends in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 197 282
Rank change year-on-year -115 +85 -104
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 244 372 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.30% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 4.01% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 317 262
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £563 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £41.00 -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,237 9,286 11,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.36% 32.44% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,099 5,620 7,938
10th Percentile £285 £275 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 474
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -13.78% +22.42%
75th Percentile £61.55 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.54 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.27 £33.54 £42.19
% change year-on-year -18.69% -20.50% +20.54%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Foreign Exchange (FX) job vacancy trend in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
London -55 240 £750 -0.03% 99
Yorkshire -40 2 £575 +43.21% 13
North of England -61 2 £575 +25.00% 27
East of England - 2 £438 - 23
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (9.02%) Apache
3 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.05%) Confluence
5 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Aladdin
1 6 (2.46%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.64%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.41%) Endur
4 1 (0.41%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.41%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.41%) RMDS
4 1 (0.41%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.54%) AWS
2 32 (13.11%) dbt
3 26 (10.66%) Azure
4 22 (9.02%) Snowflake
5 18 (7.38%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.33%) GCP
7 10 (4.10%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.69%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.05%) GitHub
12 5 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.64%) Serverless
13 4 (1.64%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.10%) Multicast
2 3 (1.23%) Firewall
2 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.82%) Internet
3 2 (0.82%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.41%) Intranet
4 1 (0.41%) SSL
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.11%) Amazon Athena
1 32 (13.11%) Apache Arrow
1 32 (13.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 32 (13.11%) Dremio
2 22 (9.02%) Apache Ignite
2 22 (9.02%) Data Lake
3 19 (7.79%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.74%) KDB
5 13 (5.33%) Kdb+
6 11 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.69%) Power BI
8 4 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.64%) Tableau
9 3 (1.23%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.23%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.82%) Big Data
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (8.20%) Git
2 9 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.28%) JIRA
4 5 (2.05%) GCC
4 5 (2.05%) GDB
5 4 (1.64%) webpack
6 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Subversion
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 170 (69.67%) Finance
2 132 (54.10%) Banking
3 131 (53.69%) Front Office
4 89 (36.48%) Social Skills
5 72 (29.51%) Investment Banking
6 26 (10.66%) Financial Institution
7 23 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.33%) Back Office
9 7 (2.87%) Law
10 6 (2.46%) Legal
11 4 (1.64%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.64%) International Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.82%) Retail
13 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (50.00%) Developer
2 50 (20.49%) Senior
3 37 (15.16%) Software Engineer
4 35 (14.34%) Python Developer
5 32 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (13.11%) AWS Software Engineer
5 32 (13.11%) Python Engineer
5 32 (13.11%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (12.30%) Java Developer
7 29 (11.89%) Analyst
8 26 (10.66%) Business Analyst
9 25 (10.25%) Java Engineer
10 24 (9.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 23 (9.43%) AWS Developer
11 23 (9.43%) Senior Java Engineer
11 23 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (9.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 14 (5.74%) Senior Developer
14 13 (5.33%) JavaScript Developer
15 12 (4.92%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.13%) NumPy
1 54 (22.13%) Pandas
2 45 (18.44%) SciPy
3 39 (15.98%) FIX Protocol
4 35 (14.34%) React
5 23 (9.43%) AngularJS
5 23 (9.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (9.43%) Vue
6 22 (9.02%) gRPC
7 19 (7.79%) .NET
7 19 (7.79%) REST
8 13 (5.33%) FastAPI
8 13 (5.33%) Flask
8 13 (5.33%) Polars
9 10 (4.10%) CSS
9 10 (4.10%) Node.js
10 9 (3.69%) COM
10 9 (3.69%) HTML
11 8 (3.28%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (32.79%) Fixed Income
2 74 (30.33%) Equities
3 72 (29.51%) Derivative
4 57 (23.36%) Hedge funds
5 22 (9.02%) Algorithms
5 22 (9.02%) Pricing Data
6 16 (6.56%) Cloud Native
7 13 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.51%) Data Structures
10 10 (4.10%) Onboarding
11 9 (3.69%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (3.69%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.05%) Credit Risk
12 5 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (2.05%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.64%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 4 (1.64%) Market Risk
14 2 (0.82%) Clustering
14 2 (0.82%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.26%) Linux
2 21 (8.61%) Unix
3 12 (4.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.20%) Agile
2 62 (25.41%) Software Engineering
3 57 (23.36%) Low Latency
4 50 (20.49%) Risk Management
5 49 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (17.62%) Analytics
7 41 (16.80%) Electronic Trading
8 40 (16.39%) Mathematics
9 37 (15.16%) Asset Management
10 35 (14.34%) Investment Management
11 31 (12.70%) CI/CD
12 30 (12.30%) Multithreading
13 27 (11.07%) DevOps
14 24 (9.84%) Data Analysis
15 23 (9.43%) Clean Code
16 22 (9.02%) Scrum
17 21 (8.61%) Computer Science
18 20 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 19 (7.79%) Order Management
20 18 (7.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (44.26%) Python
2 94 (38.52%) Java
3 62 (25.41%) JavaScript
4 57 (23.36%) SQL
5 44 (18.03%) C#
6 42 (17.21%) C++
7 38 (15.57%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.33%) Rust
9 12 (4.92%) VBA
10 11 (4.51%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.82%) Perl
12 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Scala
12 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (10.25%) Degree
2 10 (4.10%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.46%) PhD
5 3 (1.23%) PMP
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.41%) ACCA
7 1 (0.41%) CBAP
7 1 (0.41%) CFA
7 1 (0.41%) CIMA
7 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.92%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) MiFID
3 6 (2.46%) EMIR
4 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.64%) Basel III
5 4 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.82%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (8.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (3.69%) Ansible
4 4 (1.64%) Kibana
4 4 (1.64%) logstash
4 4 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.64%) Terraform
5 3 (1.23%) Grafana
5 3 (1.23%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.82%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.15%) Murex
3 13 (5.33%) Oracle
3 13 (5.33%) Solace
4 8 (3.28%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.46%) Sophis
6 5 (2.05%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.64%) Portware
7 4 (1.64%) Splunk
8 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.23%) SAP
8 3 (1.23%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.82%) Calypso
9 2 (0.82%) CQG
9 2 (0.82%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.82%) Reuters
9 2 (0.82%) TOWER Software