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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 193 270
Rank change year-on-year -108 +77 -88
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 250 382 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.32% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 4.08% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 325 274
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £563 £638 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £856 £888 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 11,229 9,362 11,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.70% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,075 5,679 8,116
10th Percentile £281 £278 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 277 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

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 19 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 19 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 -60 246 £750 -6.25% 45
Yorkshire -42 2 £575 +43.21%
North of England -52 2 £575 +25.00% 1
East of England - 2 £438 - 3
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 35 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (9.60%) Apache
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.00%) Confluence
5 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.60%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Findur
5 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.40%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.40%) RMDS
5 1 (0.40%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.60%) AWS
2 35 (14.00%) dbt
3 26 (10.40%) Azure
4 24 (9.60%) Snowflake
5 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.60%) GCP
7 10 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.60%) npm
13 4 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.40%) Multicast
2 4 (1.60%) Firewall
3 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.80%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.00%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (14.00%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (14.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (14.00%) Dremio
2 24 (9.60%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (9.60%) Data Lake
3 19 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.60%) KDB
5 13 (5.20%) Kdb+
6 12 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.20%) Power BI
8 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.60%) Tableau
10 3 (1.20%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.20%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.80%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.40%) Git
2 11 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.20%) JIRA
4 6 (2.40%) GCC
4 6 (2.40%) GDB
5 5 (2.00%) Gradle
6 4 (1.60%) webpack
7 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.80%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) Subversion
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 176 (70.40%) Finance
2 137 (54.80%) Banking
3 134 (53.60%) Front Office
4 93 (37.20%) Social Skills
5 77 (30.80%) Investment Banking
6 26 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (10.40%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.20%) Back Office
8 6 (2.40%) Law
9 5 (2.00%) International Banking
9 5 (2.00%) Legal
10 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 123 (49.20%) Developer
2 50 (20.00%) Senior
3 42 (16.80%) Software Engineer
4 38 (15.20%) Python Developer
5 35 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) Python Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (12.00%) Java Developer
7 29 (11.60%) Analyst
7 29 (11.60%) Java Engineer
8 28 (11.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 26 (10.40%) Business Analyst
10 25 (10.00%) AWS Developer
10 25 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 25 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (9.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.20%) NumPy
1 58 (23.20%) Pandas
2 49 (19.60%) SciPy
3 40 (16.00%) FIX Protocol
4 37 (14.80%) React
5 25 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 25 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (10.00%) Vue
6 24 (9.60%) gRPC
7 20 (8.00%) REST
8 19 (7.60%) .NET
9 14 (5.60%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.60%) Flask
9 14 (5.60%) Polars
10 11 (4.40%) Node.js
11 10 (4.00%) CSS
12 9 (3.60%) COM
12 9 (3.60%) HTML
13 8 (3.20%) .NET Framework
13 8 (3.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.00%) Fixed Income
2 76 (30.40%) Equities
3 73 (29.20%) Derivative
4 60 (24.00%) Hedge funds
5 24 (9.60%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.80%) Algorithms
7 18 (7.20%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.40%) Data Structures
10 10 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
11 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (1.20%) Market Risk
16 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.40%) Linux
2 22 (8.80%) Unix
3 13 (5.20%) Windows
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.00%) Agile
2 70 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 61 (24.40%) Low Latency
4 52 (20.80%) Risk Management
5 49 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (18.00%) Electronic Trading
7 44 (17.60%) Analytics
8 39 (15.60%) Asset Management
8 39 (15.60%) Investment Management
9 38 (15.20%) Mathematics
10 32 (12.80%) CI/CD
11 30 (12.00%) DevOps
11 30 (12.00%) Multithreading
12 24 (9.60%) Data Analysis
13 23 (9.20%) Clean Code
13 23 (9.20%) Scrum
14 21 (8.40%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.00%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.00%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (46.40%) Python
2 98 (39.20%) Java
3 66 (26.40%) JavaScript
4 59 (23.60%) SQL
5 46 (18.40%) C++
6 43 (17.20%) C#
7 41 (16.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.60%) Rust
9 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.80%) VBA
11 3 (1.20%) Bash
12 2 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (9.60%) Degree
2 10 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.40%) PhD
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.80%) PMP
5 2 (0.80%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.40%) ACCA
6 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) CBAP
6 1 (0.40%) CFA
6 1 (0.40%) CIMA
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.80%) QA
2 9 (3.60%) MiFID
3 6 (2.40%) EMIR
4 5 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) Basel III
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (4.00%) Ansible
4 6 (2.40%) Kibana
4 6 (2.40%) logstash
5 4 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.60%) Terraform
6 3 (1.20%) BladeLogic
6 3 (1.20%) Grafana
6 3 (1.20%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.80%) Murex
3 16 (6.40%) Solace
4 13 (5.20%) Oracle
5 9 (3.60%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.40%) Sophis
6 6 (2.40%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.60%) Portware
7 4 (1.60%) Splunk
7 4 (1.60%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.20%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.20%) Reuters
9 2 (0.80%) Calypso
9 2 (0.80%) CQG
9 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.80%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.80%) TOWER Software