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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 198 299
Rank change year-on-year -125 +101 -127
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 227 353 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.29% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 3.97% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 303 225
10th Percentile £463 £525 £500
25th Percentile £563 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £856 £888 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
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 11,115 8,899 11,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.12% 32.54% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,359 7,658
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 261 482
10th Percentile £14.31 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £41.37
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -10.55% +65.46%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.54 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.01% -16.15% +60.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -69 224 £750 - 58
Yorkshire -50 2 £575 +43.21%
North of England -52 2 £575 +25.00% 1
East of England - 1 £500 - 2
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 28 (12.33%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (8.81%) Apache
3 6 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.20%) Confluence
5 4 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.32%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.88%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.44%) Endur
5 1 (0.44%) Findur
5 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.44%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) RMDS
5 1 (0.44%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.44%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.59%) AWS
2 28 (12.33%) dbt
3 22 (9.69%) Azure
4 20 (8.81%) Snowflake
5 18 (7.93%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.85%) GCP
7 9 (3.96%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.96%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.64%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.76%) GitHub
12 4 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.52%) Multicast
2 3 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) Intranet
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.44%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.33%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (12.33%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (12.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (12.33%) Dremio
2 20 (8.81%) Apache Ignite
2 20 (8.81%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.73%) KDB
4 13 (5.73%) Kdb+
5 10 (4.41%) Power BI
6 9 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.76%) Tableau
8 3 (1.32%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.32%) Tick Data
9 2 (0.88%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) Git
2 8 (3.52%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.52%) JIRA
3 4 (1.76%) GCC
3 4 (1.76%) GDB
4 3 (1.32%) webpack
5 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.88%) Gradle
6 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (70.04%) Finance
2 124 (54.63%) Front Office
3 117 (51.54%) Banking
4 82 (36.12%) Social Skills
5 62 (27.31%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.01%) Financial Institution
7 23 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.85%) Back Office
9 7 (3.08%) Law
9 7 (3.08%) Legal
10 6 (2.64%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) International Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (49.34%) Developer
2 47 (20.70%) Senior
3 33 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 31 (13.66%) Python Developer
5 29 (12.78%) Java Developer
6 28 (12.33%) Analyst
6 28 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (12.33%) AWS Software Engineer
6 28 (12.33%) Python Engineer
6 28 (12.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 26 (11.45%) Business Analyst
8 23 (10.13%) Java Engineer
9 22 (9.69%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (9.25%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (8.81%) AWS Developer
11 20 (8.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) Quantitative Developer
13 12 (5.29%) JavaScript Developer
13 12 (5.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.59%) NumPy
1 49 (21.59%) Pandas
2 40 (17.62%) SciPy
3 32 (14.10%) FIX Protocol
4 29 (12.78%) React
5 21 (9.25%) Protocol Buffers
6 20 (8.81%) AngularJS
6 20 (8.81%) gRPC
6 20 (8.81%) Vue
7 17 (7.49%) REST
8 13 (5.73%) .NET
9 12 (5.29%) FastAPI
9 12 (5.29%) Flask
9 12 (5.29%) Polars
10 9 (3.96%) COM
10 9 (3.96%) CSS
11 8 (3.52%) HTML
11 8 (3.52%) Node.js
12 6 (2.64%) Dask
12 6 (2.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 71 (31.28%) Fixed Income
2 69 (30.40%) Derivative
2 69 (30.40%) Equities
3 51 (22.47%) Hedge funds
4 22 (9.69%) Algorithms
5 20 (8.81%) Pricing Data
6 13 (5.73%) Cloud Native
6 13 (5.73%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (4.85%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.96%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.64%) Credit Risk
12 5 (2.20%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (2.20%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.94%) Linux
2 20 (8.81%) Unix
3 13 (5.73%) Windows
4 4 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.16%) Agile
2 56 (24.67%) Software Engineering
3 53 (23.35%) Low Latency
4 48 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (20.26%) Risk Management
6 42 (18.50%) Analytics
7 40 (17.62%) Mathematics
8 34 (14.98%) Electronic Trading
9 33 (14.54%) Asset Management
10 31 (13.66%) Investment Management
11 28 (12.33%) CI/CD
12 26 (11.45%) Multithreading
13 25 (11.01%) Data Analysis
14 23 (10.13%) Scrum
15 22 (9.69%) DevOps
15 22 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (9.25%) Computer Science
17 20 (8.81%) Clean Code
18 17 (7.49%) Data Engineering
18 17 (7.49%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 97 (42.73%) Python
2 88 (38.77%) Java
3 55 (24.23%) SQL
4 54 (23.79%) JavaScript
5 41 (18.06%) C++
6 38 (16.74%) C#
7 33 (14.54%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.29%) Rust
8 12 (5.29%) VBA
9 9 (3.96%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.88%) Bash
11 2 (0.88%) Perl
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.01%) Degree
2 11 (4.85%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.64%) PhD
5 4 (1.76%) PMP
6 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.44%) ACCA
8 1 (0.44%) CBAP
8 1 (0.44%) CFA
8 1 (0.44%) CIMA
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) QA
2 6 (2.64%) Basel III
2 6 (2.64%) MiFID
2 6 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.76%) EMIR
4 3 (1.32%) GAAP
4 3 (1.32%) IFRS
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (7.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (3.96%) Ansible
4 4 (1.76%) Terraform
5 3 (1.32%) Kibana
5 3 (1.32%) logstash
5 3 (1.32%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.88%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.88%) Grafana
6 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (7.49%) Microsoft
1 17 (7.49%) Murex
2 16 (7.05%) Oracle
3 9 (3.96%) Solace
4 7 (3.08%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.64%) Sophis
6 5 (2.20%) SAP
7 4 (1.76%) Splunk
7 4 (1.76%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.76%) Workday
8 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.32%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.88%) Calypso
9 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.88%) Informatica
9 2 (0.88%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.88%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.88%) Reuters