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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 168 217
Rank change year-on-year -216 +49 -22
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 204 384 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 1.58% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 4.63% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 326 310
10th Percentile £445 £591 £568
25th Percentile £525 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £843 £875 £888
90th Percentile £920 £938 -
UK median daily rate £667 £775 £800
% change year-on-year -13.90% -3.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.13 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -49.82% +8.95%

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 13,147 8,297 11,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.98% 34.17% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 5,416 7,323
10th Percentile £313 £300 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 340 817
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.59 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -0.26% +51.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £31.91 £31.50
% change year-on-year +31.45% +1.29% +40.33%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -126 194 £703 -9.35% 58
Midlands -64 4 £563 +131.96% 2
East Midlands - 4 £563 - 1
North of England -70 3 £250 -56.52% 5
Yorkshire -56 2 - - 2
North West -47 1 £250 -56.52% 2
South East -65 1 - - 17
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 7 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 5 (2.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.96%) Orchestrade
3 3 (1.47%) Findur
3 3 (1.47%) Summit
4 2 (0.98%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.98%) Global One
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.98%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.49%) Actimize
5 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.49%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.49%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.80%) Azure
2 16 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.88%) AWS
4 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.43%) PowerApps
6 6 (2.94%) SaaS
7 5 (2.45%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.96%) GCP
8 4 (1.96%) npm
8 4 (1.96%) Yarn
9 3 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.98%) OCI
10 2 (0.98%) Serverless
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.49%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.92%) Multicast
2 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.98%) RTMP
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.35%) KDB
2 12 (5.88%) Power BI
3 9 (4.41%) Tableau
4 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.45%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) Big Data
6 3 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.47%) Metadata
6 3 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.47%) Tick Data
7 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.98%) Redis
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) JIRA
2 6 (2.94%) Git
3 5 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.45%) webpack
4 3 (1.47%) GitLab
4 3 (1.47%) Gradle
4 3 (1.47%) Maven
5 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.98%) JUnit
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.98%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
5 2 (0.98%) TestNG
6 1 (0.49%) Gatling
6 1 (0.49%) JMeter
6 1 (0.49%) Newman
6 1 (0.49%) NUnit
6 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 125 (61.27%) Finance
2 89 (43.63%) Banking
3 81 (39.71%) Front Office
4 52 (25.49%) Investment Banking
5 50 (24.51%) Social Skills
6 31 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.86%) Back Office
8 11 (5.39%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.45%) Legal
10 4 (1.96%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.96%) Law
10 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.47%) Billing
11 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.47%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.98%) Retail
13 1 (0.49%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (47.06%) Developer
2 41 (20.10%) Java Developer
3 38 (18.63%) Senior
4 37 (18.14%) Analyst
5 32 (15.69%) Business Analyst
6 20 (9.80%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.84%) C# Developer
8 12 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) FX Business Analyst
10 8 (3.92%) Lead
10 8 (3.92%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (3.92%) React Developer
11 7 (3.43%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) Risk Analyst
11 7 (3.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) UI Developer
12 6 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (2.94%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.75%) FIX Protocol
1 26 (12.75%) React
2 12 (5.88%) Redux
3 11 (5.39%) Kafka
3 11 (5.39%) Spring
4 10 (4.90%) .NET
5 9 (4.41%) CSS
6 8 (3.92%) XML
7 7 (3.43%) Ultra Messaging
8 6 (2.94%) HTML
8 6 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.45%) Electron
9 5 (2.45%) Middleware
9 5 (2.45%) OpenFin
10 4 (1.96%) REST
10 4 (1.96%) RxJava
11 3 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (1.47%) RxJS
11 3 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.57%) Fixed Income
2 41 (20.10%) Derivative
3 28 (13.73%) Equities
4 23 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (9.80%) Algorithms
5 20 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.92%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.92%) OTC Derivatives
8 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.45%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.96%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.98%) Eurex
12 2 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.84%) Linux
2 10 (4.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.45%) Low Latency
2 46 (22.55%) Agile
2 46 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.06%) Electronic Trading
4 36 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 30 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (11.76%) AI
6 24 (11.76%) Multithreading
7 21 (10.29%) Analytics
7 21 (10.29%) Data Protection
8 20 (9.80%) Event-Driven
8 20 (9.80%) Microservices
8 20 (9.80%) Software Engineering
9 19 (9.31%) Risk Management
9 19 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.33%) Computer Science
11 17 (8.33%) User Experience
11 17 (8.33%) Validation
12 16 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.24%) Java
2 35 (17.16%) C#
2 35 (17.16%) SQL
3 30 (14.71%) Python
4 25 (12.25%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.33%) C++
5 17 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.96%) Scala
8 3 (1.47%) Perl
8 3 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (7.84%) Degree
2 6 (2.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.96%) PhD
4 4 (1.96%) PMP
5 3 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.98%) ACCA
6 2 (0.98%) CIMA
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) CBAP
7 1 (0.49%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.37%) QA
2 8 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.45%) Basel III
3 5 (2.45%) IFRS
3 5 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.96%) EMIR
4 4 (1.96%) MiFID
5 3 (1.47%) GAAP
5 3 (1.47%) SLA
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.96%) Ansible
1 4 (1.96%) Control-M
1 4 (1.96%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (1.47%) Grafana
2 3 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.98%) Kibana
3 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (10.78%) Murex
2 12 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.90%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.41%) Solace
5 8 (3.92%) Oracle
6 7 (3.43%) SAP
7 5 (2.45%) IBM
8 4 (1.96%) Workday
9 3 (1.47%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.98%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.98%) Calypso
10 2 (0.98%) Charles River
10 2 (0.98%) Citrix
10 2 (0.98%) Informatica
10 2 (0.98%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.98%) Splunk
10 2 (0.98%) Sybase
11 1 (0.49%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics