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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 195 299
Rank change year-on-year -135 +104 -128
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 214 355 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.32% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 4.05% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 305 227
10th Percentile £463 £529 £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 £875 £888 £819
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 10,899 8,776 11,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 32.57% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,908 5,287 7,696
10th Percentile £287 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £535 £545
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.83% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 506
10th Percentile £14.36 £17.28 £15.37
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.27 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.71% -8.67% +50.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -68 212 £750 - 65
North of England -42 2 £575 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -47 2 £575 +43.21% 4
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 26 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.41%) Apache
3 6 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.34%) Confluence
5 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.93%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.47%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) RMDS
4 1 (0.47%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Summit
4 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.50%) AWS
2 26 (12.15%) dbt
3 18 (8.41%) Azure
3 18 (8.41%) Snowflake
4 16 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.14%) GCP
6 8 (3.74%) PowerApps
7 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.27%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.80%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.87%) GitHub
10 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.40%) SaaS
12 2 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Multicast
2 3 (1.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) Intranet
4 1 (0.47%) SSL
4 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
4 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.15%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (12.15%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (12.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (12.15%) Dremio
2 18 (8.41%) Apache Ignite
2 18 (8.41%) Data Lake
3 14 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 13 (6.07%) KDB
4 13 (6.07%) Kdb+
5 9 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.21%) Power BI
6 4 (1.87%) Tableau
7 3 (1.40%) Data Mart
7 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.40%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.93%) Big Data
8 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) Looker
9 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (7.48%) Git
2 8 (3.74%) JIRA
3 7 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.40%) GCC
4 3 (1.40%) GDB
5 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.93%) Gradle
5 2 (0.93%) webpack
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) Subversion
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (70.09%) Finance
2 120 (56.07%) Front Office
3 108 (50.47%) Banking
4 76 (35.51%) Social Skills
5 55 (25.70%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.68%) Financial Institution
7 23 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.21%) Back Office
9 7 (3.27%) Law
9 7 (3.27%) Legal
10 6 (2.80%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) International Banking
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 107 (50.00%) Developer
2 43 (20.09%) Senior
3 31 (14.49%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.02%) Java Developer
4 30 (14.02%) Python Developer
5 26 (12.15%) Analyst
5 26 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (12.15%) AWS Software Engineer
5 26 (12.15%) Python Engineer
5 26 (12.15%) Python Software Engineer
6 24 (11.21%) Business Analyst
7 21 (9.81%) Java Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 19 (8.88%) AWS Developer
9 19 (8.88%) Senior Java Engineer
9 19 (8.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (8.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Quantitative Developer
12 11 (5.14%) JavaScript Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.50%) NumPy
1 46 (21.50%) Pandas
2 37 (17.29%) SciPy
3 29 (13.55%) FIX Protocol
4 27 (12.62%) React
5 19 (8.88%) AngularJS
5 19 (8.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (8.88%) Vue
6 18 (8.41%) gRPC
7 15 (7.01%) REST
8 11 (5.14%) FastAPI
8 11 (5.14%) Flask
8 11 (5.14%) Polars
9 10 (4.67%) .NET
10 9 (4.21%) COM
11 8 (3.74%) CSS
11 8 (3.74%) Node.js
12 7 (3.27%) HTML
13 6 (2.80%) Dask
14 5 (2.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (31.31%) Equities
2 66 (30.84%) Fixed Income
3 63 (29.44%) Derivative
4 46 (21.50%) Hedge funds
5 22 (10.28%) Algorithms
6 18 (8.41%) Pricing Data
7 13 (6.07%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (5.14%) Cloud Native
8 11 (5.14%) Data Structures
9 9 (4.21%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.80%) Credit Risk
11 6 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.34%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (2.34%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.87%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.69%) Linux
2 19 (8.88%) Unix
3 13 (6.07%) Windows
4 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.37%) Agile
2 52 (24.30%) Low Latency
3 51 (23.83%) Software Engineering
4 47 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (21.03%) Risk Management
6 41 (19.16%) Analytics
7 39 (18.22%) Mathematics
8 31 (14.49%) Asset Management
8 31 (14.49%) Electronic Trading
9 28 (13.08%) Investment Management
10 25 (11.68%) Multithreading
11 24 (11.21%) CI/CD
11 24 (11.21%) Data Analysis
12 22 (10.28%) Scrum
13 21 (9.81%) Computer Science
13 21 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (8.41%) DevOps
15 17 (7.94%) Clean Code
15 17 (7.94%) Pricing Analytics
16 15 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.99%) Python
2 84 (39.25%) Java
3 51 (23.83%) SQL
4 48 (22.43%) JavaScript
5 39 (18.22%) C++
6 34 (15.89%) C#
7 30 (14.02%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.61%) VBA
9 11 (5.14%) Rust
10 8 (3.74%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Bash
12 2 (0.93%) Perl
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.68%) Degree
2 11 (5.14%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.80%) PhD
5 4 (1.87%) PMP
6 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.47%) ACCA
8 1 (0.47%) CBAP
8 1 (0.47%) CFA
8 1 (0.47%) CIMA
8 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) QA
2 6 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.34%) Basel III
3 5 (2.34%) MiFID
4 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.87%) EMIR
5 3 (1.40%) GAAP
5 3 (1.40%) IFRS
6 2 (0.93%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (7.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.21%) Ansible
2 9 (4.21%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.87%) Terraform
4 3 (1.40%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.93%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) logstash
5 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (7.48%) Murex
1 16 (7.48%) Oracle
2 14 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.74%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.27%) Solace
5 6 (2.80%) Sophis
6 5 (2.34%) SAP
7 4 (1.87%) Splunk
7 4 (1.87%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.87%) Workday
8 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.40%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.93%) Calypso
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.93%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.93%) Reuters