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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 189 169
Rank change year-on-year -191 -20 +27
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 244 389 531
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.43% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 4.12% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 304 425
10th Percentile £451 £500 £550
25th Percentile £538 £650 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £922 £850 £888
90th Percentile £938 £875 £900
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 27
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £64.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £58.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.48% -16.61% -

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 14,814 9,440 11,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.79% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 6,000 7,276
10th Percentile £318 £305 £288
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 466 789
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -16.33% +15.54%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -13.70% +21.67%

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 15 July 2026.

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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

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 15 July 2026. 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 -118 216 £725 -6.45% 88
North of England -80 9 £875 +77.85% 10
Midlands -53 7 £563 +103.62% 10
East Midlands -7 6 £550 - 6
South West -30 5 £875 +133.33% 5
North East - 4 £875 - 1
North West -55 3 £875 +77.85% 6
Yorkshire -54 2 - - 3
South East -64 2 £613 +48.94% 19
East of England -22 1 - - 2
West Midlands -67 1 £875 +216.74% 4
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 6 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.05%) Confluence
3 4 (1.64%) IIS
4 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Orchestrade
2 4 (1.64%) Loan IQ
3 3 (1.23%) Findur
3 3 (1.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (1.23%) Summit
4 2 (0.82%) Actimize
4 2 (0.82%) Cognos Controller
4 2 (0.82%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.82%) Global One
4 2 (0.82%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.82%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.79%) Azure
2 16 (6.56%) AWS
3 13 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.87%) Power Automate
5 7 (2.87%) PowerApps
6 6 (2.46%) SaaS
7 5 (2.05%) GCP
8 4 (1.64%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.64%) Serverless
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.82%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.82%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.82%) npm
10 2 (0.82%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.51%) Multicast
2 3 (1.23%) VPN
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) HTTP
3 2 (0.82%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.15%) KDB
2 11 (4.51%) Power BI
3 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.87%) Tableau
4 6 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.05%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.23%) Big Data
7 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.23%) Redis
7 3 (1.23%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.82%) Metadata
8 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.41%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.41%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.41%) Power Query
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.38%) JIRA
2 8 (3.28%) Git
3 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Gradle
4 3 (1.23%) Maven
4 3 (1.23%) webpack
5 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.82%) JUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Postman
5 2 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) Storybook
5 2 (0.82%) TestNG
5 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Gatling
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) Newman
6 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 159 (65.16%) Finance
2 126 (51.64%) Banking
3 104 (42.62%) Front Office
4 82 (33.61%) Investment Banking
5 55 (22.54%) Social Skills
6 36 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.33%) Back Office
8 12 (4.92%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.87%) Legal
10 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.05%) Law
11 4 (1.64%) Billing
11 4 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.23%) Retail
13 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.41%) French Language
14 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 125 (51.23%) Developer
2 63 (25.82%) Senior
3 62 (25.41%) Java Developer
4 46 (18.85%) Senior Developer
5 45 (18.44%) Analyst
6 35 (14.34%) Business Analyst
6 35 (14.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 33 (13.52%) React Developer
8 31 (12.70%) UI Developer
9 29 (11.89%) Senior React Developer
10 28 (11.48%) Senior UI Developer
11 23 (9.43%) C# Developer
12 12 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.28%) Architect
14 8 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (2.87%) Front Office Developer
15 7 (2.87%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.87%) Technical Analyst
15 7 (2.87%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.54%) React
2 35 (14.34%) Redux
3 22 (9.02%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (6.97%) Kafka
4 17 (6.97%) Spring
5 13 (5.33%) .NET
6 11 (4.51%) Middleware
7 9 (3.69%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.28%) CSS
8 8 (3.28%) RxJava
8 8 (3.28%) XML
9 7 (2.87%) OpenFin
9 7 (2.87%) REST
9 7 (2.87%) Ultra Messaging
10 6 (2.46%) Electron
10 6 (2.46%) Web Services
11 5 (2.05%) HTML
12 3 (1.23%) HTML5
12 3 (1.23%) JSON
12 3 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.33%) Fixed Income
2 58 (23.77%) Derivative
3 51 (20.90%) Equities
4 32 (13.11%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (8.20%) Algorithms
7 16 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (4.10%) OTC Derivatives
9 9 (3.69%) Data Structures
10 8 (3.28%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.87%) Hedge funds
12 5 (2.05%) Exotic Derivative
12 5 (2.05%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.23%) Cloud Native
14 3 (1.23%) Swaptions
15 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.97%) Linux
2 11 (4.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.79%) Low Latency
2 76 (31.15%) Electronic Trading
3 52 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (20.49%) Agile
5 45 (18.44%) CI/CD
6 37 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (12.70%) Microservices
7 31 (12.70%) Software Engineering
8 30 (12.30%) AI
9 29 (11.89%) Event-Driven
10 27 (11.07%) Analytics
11 26 (10.66%) Computer Science
11 26 (10.66%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (10.25%) Multithreading
13 23 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (9.02%) DevOps
15 20 (8.20%) Validation
16 18 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.97%) Performance Tuning
17 17 (6.97%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.21%) Java
2 59 (24.18%) C#
3 54 (22.13%) TypeScript
4 42 (17.21%) JavaScript
5 39 (15.98%) SQL
6 35 (14.34%) Python
7 15 (6.15%) C++
8 5 (2.05%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.64%) VBA
10 3 (1.23%) Scala
10 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.82%) Perl
11 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.41%) ABAP
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (11.07%) Degree
2 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (3.69%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.28%) PhD
3 8 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.23%) ACCA
5 3 (1.23%) CIMA
6 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.05%) IFRS
4 3 (1.23%) EMIR
4 3 (1.23%) MiFID
5 2 (0.82%) GAAP
5 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (4.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.05%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.23%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Control-M
3 3 (1.23%) Grafana
4 2 (0.82%) Kibana
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (10.66%) Murex
2 14 (5.74%) Bloomberg
2 14 (5.74%) Solace
3 9 (3.69%) IBM
3 9 (3.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.28%) Oracle
5 5 (2.05%) SAP
6 3 (1.23%) Calypso
6 3 (1.23%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.82%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.82%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (0.82%) Cognos
7 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.82%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.41%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.41%) FIS
8 1 (0.41%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.41%) Splunk
8 1 (0.41%) TSYS