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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 182 332
Rank change year-on-year -183 +150 -158
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 208 355 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 1.43% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 4.24% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 297 187
10th Percentile £463 £558 £504
25th Percentile £525 £638 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -9.09%
75th Percentile £849 £888 £800
90th Percentile £975 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £720 £755 £700
% change year-on-year -4.67% +7.89% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
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 12,115 8,369 11,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.65% 33.60% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,692 5,350 7,670
10th Percentile £290 £287 £256
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £662
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 286 805
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.85 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £68.19 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.71 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £29.72
% change year-on-year +4.62% +9.35% +32.18%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -99 202 £729 -8.91% 54
Yorkshire -58 2 £575 +43.21% 1
Midlands -59 2 - - 4
North of England -66 2 £575 +20.80% 7
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
South East -45 1 - - 32
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 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.92%) Apache
4 4 (1.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.96%) Summit
4 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.48%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.48%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.06%) AWS
2 21 (10.10%) Azure
3 20 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.77%) PowerApps
5 10 (4.81%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.88%) SaaS
10 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.40%) dbt
10 5 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.92%) GCP
11 4 (1.92%) npm
11 4 (1.92%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.92%) Yarn
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.44%) GitHub
12 3 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) Multicast
2 2 (0.96%) RTMP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.21%) KDB
2 14 (6.73%) Kdb+
3 12 (5.77%) Power BI
4 11 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.88%) Tick Data
6 5 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.40%) Apache Arrow
6 5 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (2.40%) Dremio
6 5 (2.40%) Tableau
7 4 (1.92%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (1.92%) Big Data
7 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.96%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.96%) Metadata
9 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Git
1 10 (4.81%) JIRA
2 6 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.40%) webpack
4 4 (1.92%) Gradle
5 2 (0.96%) GCC
5 2 (0.96%) GDB
5 2 (0.96%) Maven
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) NUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Subversion
6 1 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 139 (66.83%) Finance
2 96 (46.15%) Front Office
3 95 (45.67%) Banking
4 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
5 40 (19.23%) Investment Banking
6 29 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.17%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.33%) Back Office
9 7 (3.37%) Law
9 7 (3.37%) Legal
10 5 (2.40%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.96%) International Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Retail
12 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 102 (49.04%) Developer
2 37 (17.79%) Java Developer
3 36 (17.31%) Analyst
4 32 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 32 (15.38%) Senior
5 16 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 9 (4.33%) Java Engineer
6 9 (4.33%) KDB Developer
6 9 (4.33%) Lead
6 9 (4.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 9 (4.33%) Quantitative Developer
6 9 (4.33%) RAD Developer
6 9 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (4.33%) Software Engineer
7 8 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
7 8 (3.85%) FX Business Analyst
7 8 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.37%) AWS Developer
8 7 (3.37%) C# Developer
8 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (9.62%) NumPy
2 20 (9.62%) Pandas
3 19 (9.13%) React
4 14 (6.73%) REST
5 12 (5.77%) CSS
6 11 (5.29%) SciPy
7 9 (4.33%) COM
7 9 (4.33%) HTML
8 8 (3.85%) .NET
8 8 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.37%) Vue
10 6 (2.88%) Dask
10 6 (2.88%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.88%) Flask
10 6 (2.88%) Polars
11 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (2.40%) XML
12 4 (1.92%) Middleware
12 4 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.56%) Fixed Income
2 48 (23.08%) Equities
3 43 (20.67%) Derivative
4 28 (13.46%) Hedge funds
5 22 (10.58%) Algorithms
6 19 (9.13%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
8 10 (4.81%) Onboarding
9 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
9 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.85%) Market Risk
11 7 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.88%) Credit Risk
12 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.92%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.92%) Pricing Data
14 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.42%) Linux
2 17 (8.17%) Unix
3 5 (2.40%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.44%) Low Latency
2 51 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (21.15%) Analytics
4 40 (19.23%) Agile
5 39 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 33 (15.87%) Electronic Trading
7 29 (13.94%) Mathematics
8 28 (13.46%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.50%) Data Analysis
10 25 (12.02%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.58%) Multithreading
11 22 (10.58%) Scrum
12 21 (10.10%) Computer Science
12 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (9.62%) Data Protection
14 18 (8.65%) AI
14 18 (8.65%) DevOps
15 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (8.17%) Pricing Analytics
16 16 (7.69%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.02%) Java
2 57 (27.40%) Python
3 46 (22.12%) SQL
4 30 (14.42%) C#
4 30 (14.42%) C++
5 24 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.77%) VBA
8 7 (3.37%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.88%) Rust
10 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.96%) Scala
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (10.10%) Degree
2 10 (4.81%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.88%) PhD
4 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.92%) PMP
5 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.48%) CBAP
6 1 (0.48%) CFA
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.17%) QA
2 6 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.40%) Basel III
4 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.44%) EMIR
5 3 (1.44%) GAAP
5 3 (1.44%) IFRS
5 3 (1.44%) MiFID
5 3 (1.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (5.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.85%) Ansible
3 6 (2.88%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.44%) Grafana
4 3 (1.44%) Kibana
4 3 (1.44%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) logstash
5 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.48%) Control-M
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (10.58%) Murex
2 17 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.77%) Oracle
4 10 (4.81%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.85%) Solace
6 4 (1.92%) SAP
6 4 (1.92%) Workday
7 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.44%) Splunk
7 3 (1.44%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.96%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.96%) Charles River
8 2 (0.96%) Citrix
8 2 (0.96%) IBM
8 2 (0.96%) Informatica
8 2 (0.96%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.96%) Sybase
8 2 (0.96%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.48%) ION Trading