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 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 170 253
Rank change year-on-year -199 +83 -67
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 206 399 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.64% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 4.81% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 341 276
10th Percentile £450 £575 £546
25th Percentile £516 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £849 £875 £875
90th Percentile £925 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.43% +8.95%
UK median hourly rate - £41.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -41.43% +8.95%

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 13,049 8,303 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.42% 34.16% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,271 5,427 7,448
10th Percentile £305 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 823
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.06% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £83.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.05 £29.50
% change year-on-year +41.84% +8.64% +31.20%

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 29 April 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)
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 29 April 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 -144 196 £684 -11.81% 53
North of England -80 5 £413 -16.16% 1
Yorkshire -59 4 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -65 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -41 1 £250 -56.52% 1
South East -59 1 - - 16
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 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) IIS
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.46%) Findur
3 3 (1.46%) Summit
4 2 (0.97%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.97%) Global One
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.97%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.97%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.49%) Actimize
5 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.49%) Endur
5 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.49%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.49%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.65%) Azure
2 21 (10.19%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.83%) AWS
4 11 (5.34%) PowerApps
5 10 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.37%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.43%) SaaS
10 4 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.94%) GCP
10 4 (1.94%) npm
10 4 (1.94%) Yarn
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) Multicast
2 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.97%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) RTMP
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.77%) KDB
2 14 (6.80%) Power BI
3 9 (4.37%) Kdb+
3 9 (4.37%) Tableau
4 7 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.91%) Tick Data
6 4 (1.94%) Big Data
6 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.46%) Metadata
7 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.97%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.97%) Redis
8 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.80%) JIRA
2 7 (3.40%) Git
3 6 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.43%) webpack
5 3 (1.46%) Gradle
5 3 (1.46%) Maven
6 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.97%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) JUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Postman
6 2 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.97%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 2 (0.97%) TestNG
7 1 (0.49%) Gatling
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) Newman
7 1 (0.49%) NUnit
7 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 136 (66.02%) Finance
2 88 (42.72%) Banking
3 83 (40.29%) Front Office
4 56 (27.18%) Social Skills
5 41 (19.90%) Investment Banking
6 33 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.25%) Back Office
8 14 (6.80%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.88%) Legal
10 4 (1.94%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Law
11 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.97%) Billing
12 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (46.60%) Developer
2 41 (19.90%) Java Developer
3 36 (17.48%) Analyst
4 32 (15.53%) Business Analyst
4 32 (15.53%) Senior
5 14 (6.80%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.34%) C# Developer
7 10 (4.85%) FX Business Analyst
8 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Lead
9 8 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.88%) KDB Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.91%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
12 5 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.62%) FIX Protocol
2 23 (11.17%) React
3 11 (5.34%) CSS
4 10 (4.85%) .NET
4 10 (4.85%) Kafka
4 10 (4.85%) Redux
4 10 (4.85%) REST
5 9 (4.37%) Spring
6 8 (3.88%) HTML
7 7 (3.40%) XML
8 6 (2.91%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.43%) COM
9 5 (2.43%) Electron
9 5 (2.43%) NumPy
9 5 (2.43%) OpenFin
9 5 (2.43%) Pandas
10 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (1.94%) Middleware
11 3 (1.46%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.45%) Fixed Income
2 37 (17.96%) Derivative
3 33 (16.02%) Equities
4 20 (9.71%) Algorithms
4 20 (9.71%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.34%) Hedge funds
6 11 (5.34%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.85%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.88%) Market Risk
9 7 (3.40%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.43%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.22%) Linux
1 19 (9.22%) Unix
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.18%) Low Latency
2 51 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (21.84%) Agile
4 38 (18.45%) Electronic Trading
5 31 (15.05%) Analytics
6 29 (14.08%) CI/CD
7 27 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (13.11%) Risk Management
8 25 (12.14%) AI
9 22 (10.68%) Scrum
10 21 (10.19%) Data Analysis
10 21 (10.19%) Data Protection
10 21 (10.19%) Multithreading
10 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (9.71%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (9.22%) Computer Science
13 18 (8.74%) Software Engineering
13 18 (8.74%) User Experience
14 17 (8.25%) DevOps
15 16 (7.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.92%) Java
2 41 (19.90%) SQL
3 32 (15.53%) C#
3 32 (15.53%) Python
4 23 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.28%) C++
7 6 (2.91%) VBA
8 4 (1.94%) Perl
8 4 (1.94%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.94%) Scala
9 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (6.80%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.94%) PMP
5 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) PhD
5 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.97%) ACCA
6 2 (0.97%) CIMA
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) CBAP
7 1 (0.49%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.74%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.43%) Basel III
5 4 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.46%) EMIR
6 3 (1.46%) GAAP
6 3 (1.46%) IFRS
6 3 (1.46%) MiFID
6 3 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.97%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.49%) GDPR
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.49%) NIST
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.43%) Ansible
1 5 (2.43%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (1.94%) Control-M
3 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.19%) Murex
2 16 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.34%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.88%) Oracle
5 7 (3.40%) Solace
6 6 (2.91%) SAP
7 5 (2.43%) IBM
8 4 (1.94%) Workday
9 3 (1.46%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.46%) Splunk
10 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.97%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.97%) Calypso
10 2 (0.97%) Charles River
10 2 (0.97%) Citrix
10 2 (0.97%) Informatica
10 2 (0.97%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.97%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.97%) Sybase
10 2 (0.97%) Tradeweb