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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 182 181
Rank change year-on-year -192 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 240 377 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 1.51% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 4.35% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 309 381
10th Percentile £450 £525 £575
25th Percentile £538 £663 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £917 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 £912 £900
UK median daily rate £725 £775 £800
% change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.71% +25.00% -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £58.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.64% -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 14,172 8,674 11,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.71% 34.73% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,852 5,567 7,306
10th Percentile £313 £303 £279
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 397 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.17
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.10 £82.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.10% +58.55%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -129 214 £725 -6.45% 80
North of England -81 9 £875 +77.85% 5
Midlands -49 7 £563 +103.62% 3
East Midlands -12 6 £550 - 2
South West -31 4 £875 +133.33% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
North West -52 3 £875 +77.85% 5
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
South East -60 2 £613 +48.94% 14
West Midlands -60 1 £875 +216.74% 1
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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.08%) Confluence
3 4 (1.67%) IIS
4 2 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 6 (2.50%) Orchestrade
2 5 (2.08%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.67%) Summit
4 3 (1.25%) Findur
5 2 (0.83%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.83%) Global One
5 2 (0.83%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.83%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.42%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.42%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.75%) Azure
2 14 (5.83%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.42%) AWS
4 9 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.92%) Power Automate
5 7 (2.92%) PowerApps
5 7 (2.92%) SaaS
6 4 (1.67%) Azure Functions
6 4 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.67%) GCP
6 4 (1.67%) Serverless
7 3 (1.25%) npm
7 3 (1.25%) Yarn
8 2 (0.83%) Azure AI
8 2 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (0.83%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.83%) OCI
8 2 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Multicast
2 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) RTMP
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.25%) KDB
2 12 (5.00%) Power BI
3 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.92%) Tableau
5 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.08%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.25%) Big Data
8 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.25%) Redis
8 3 (1.25%) Tick Data
9 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.83%) Metadata
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 20 (8.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.33%) Git
3 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) webpack
4 3 (1.25%) GitLab
4 3 (1.25%) Gradle
4 3 (1.25%) Maven
5 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.83%) JUnit
5 2 (0.83%) Postman
5 2 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) TestNG
5 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.42%) Gatling
6 1 (0.42%) JMeter
6 1 (0.42%) Newman
6 1 (0.42%) NUnit
6 1 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 156 (65.00%) Finance
2 120 (50.00%) Banking
3 107 (44.58%) Front Office
4 83 (34.58%) Investment Banking
5 52 (21.67%) Social Skills
6 35 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.42%) Back Office
8 10 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.92%) Legal
10 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.67%) Billing
11 4 (1.67%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.25%) Law
13 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.83%) Retail
14 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (52.92%) Developer
2 63 (26.25%) Java Developer
3 61 (25.42%) Senior
4 44 (18.33%) Senior Developer
5 43 (17.92%) Analyst
6 36 (15.00%) Business Analyst
7 34 (14.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (13.75%) React Developer
9 30 (12.50%) UI Developer
10 29 (12.08%) Senior React Developer
11 28 (11.67%) Senior UI Developer
12 24 (10.00%) C# Developer
13 12 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
15 8 (3.33%) Lead
16 7 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 7 (2.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (2.92%) Technical Analyst
16 7 (2.92%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.50%) React
2 35 (14.58%) Redux
3 22 (9.17%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (5.83%) .NET
4 14 (5.83%) Kafka
4 14 (5.83%) Spring
5 9 (3.75%) XML
6 8 (3.33%) CSS
6 8 (3.33%) Middleware
7 7 (2.92%) RxJava
7 7 (2.92%) Ultra Messaging
8 6 (2.50%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.50%) Web Services
9 5 (2.08%) Electron
9 5 (2.08%) HTML
9 5 (2.08%) OpenFin
9 5 (2.08%) REST
10 3 (1.25%) JSON
10 3 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.58%) Fixed Income
2 53 (22.08%) Equities
3 51 (21.25%) Derivative
4 32 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (6.67%) Algorithms
7 15 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.75%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.33%) Market Risk
9 8 (3.33%) OTC Derivatives
10 7 (2.92%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.67%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.83%) Eurex
14 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.67%) Linux
2 10 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.83%) Low Latency
2 70 (29.17%) Electronic Trading
3 52 (21.67%) Agile
4 51 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 36 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (11.25%) AI
8 26 (10.83%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.42%) Microservices
9 25 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
10 23 (9.58%) Analytics
10 23 (9.58%) Event-Driven
10 23 (9.58%) Multithreading
10 23 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (9.17%) Computer Science
12 20 (8.33%) DevOps
13 19 (7.92%) Validation
14 17 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (7.08%) Migration
15 16 (6.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.83%) Java
2 62 (25.83%) C#
3 53 (22.08%) TypeScript
4 42 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 41 (17.08%) SQL
6 30 (12.50%) Python
7 15 (6.25%) C++
8 5 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.25%) Scala
10 3 (1.25%) VBA
11 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) ABAP
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.92%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.50%) PhD
4 6 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.83%) ACCA
5 2 (0.83%) CIMA
5 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.83%) PMP
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) QA
2 8 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.92%) IFRS
4 6 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.67%) Basel III
5 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.67%) GAAP
6 3 (1.25%) EMIR
6 3 (1.25%) MiFID
6 3 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.42%) GDPR
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.67%) Control-M
3 3 (1.25%) Ansible
3 3 (1.25%) Grafana
3 3 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.83%) Kibana
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (10.83%) Murex
2 12 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 11 (4.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.58%) Oracle
4 9 (3.75%) SAP
4 9 (3.75%) Solace
5 7 (2.92%) IBM
6 4 (1.67%) Workday
7 3 (1.25%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.83%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.83%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.83%) Calypso
8 2 (0.83%) Charles River
8 2 (0.83%) Citrix
8 2 (0.83%) Informatica
8 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.83%) Sybase
9 1 (0.42%) Apple
9 1 (0.42%) Reuters
9 1 (0.42%) Temenos