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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 187 246
Rank change year-on-year -77 +59 -61
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 313 422 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.35% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 4.30% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 343 341
10th Percentile £463 £500 £479
25th Percentile £600 £644 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £825
90th Percentile £911 £913 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 0
10th Percentile - £68.13 -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 11,018 9,809 12,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.47% 31.46% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,897 5,861 8,796
10th Percentile £285 £298 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 306 464
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £18.24 £24.18 £21.30
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%
75th Percentile £52.66 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.95 £75.16 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -29.33% -14.45% +48.59%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -31 300 £750 -6.25% 165
North of England -36 9 £429 -6.74% 1
North West -15 6 £429 - 1
Yorkshire -31 3 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -28 2 £310 -32.61% 1
East of England - 2 £438 -
West Midlands -27 1 £310 -32.61% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
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 55 (17.57%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (10.86%) Apache
3 7 (2.24%) Confluence
4 5 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.24%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.28%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.96%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.64%) Kondor
6 1 (0.32%) Actimize
6 1 (0.32%) Endur
6 1 (0.32%) Findur
6 1 (0.32%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.32%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.32%) RMDS
6 1 (0.32%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (30.03%) AWS
2 55 (17.57%) dbt
3 38 (12.14%) Azure
4 34 (10.86%) Snowflake
5 33 (10.54%) GCP
6 17 (5.43%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.51%) PowerApps
9 10 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.19%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.24%) GitHub
12 7 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.60%) Serverless
15 4 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.79%) Multicast
2 9 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.92%) Firewall
4 2 (0.64%) Internet
4 2 (0.64%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.64%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.57%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (17.57%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (17.57%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (17.57%) Dremio
2 34 (10.86%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (10.86%) Data Lake
3 27 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.03%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.15%) KDB
6 12 (3.83%) Kdb+
7 7 (2.24%) Data Mart
7 7 (2.24%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.92%) Power BI
9 3 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.96%) Tableau
9 3 (0.96%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.32%) Big Data
10 1 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (8.31%) Git
2 12 (3.83%) JIRA
3 9 (2.88%) GCC
3 9 (2.88%) GDB
3 9 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.60%) Gradle
5 3 (0.96%) Maven
5 3 (0.96%) webpack
6 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.64%) git-flow
6 2 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.64%) PROIV
6 2 (0.64%) Selenium
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.32%) Ant
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 228 (72.84%) Finance
2 172 (54.95%) Front Office
3 160 (51.12%) Banking
4 103 (32.91%) Social Skills
5 91 (29.07%) Investment Banking
6 36 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (8.95%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.83%) Back Office
9 8 (2.56%) International Banking
10 6 (1.92%) Legal
11 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.60%) Law
11 5 (1.60%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.96%) Local Government
14 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Wholesale Banking
15 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (51.44%) Developer
2 76 (24.28%) Software Engineer
3 66 (21.09%) Senior
4 55 (17.57%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (17.57%) AWS Software Engineer
4 55 (17.57%) Python Developer
5 50 (15.97%) Python Engineer
5 50 (15.97%) Python Software Engineer
6 43 (13.74%) Java Engineer
6 43 (13.74%) Java Software Engineer
7 39 (12.46%) AWS Developer
8 35 (11.18%) Java Developer
8 35 (11.18%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (10.86%) Senior Java Engineer
9 34 (10.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 33 (10.54%) Analyst
11 31 (9.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 28 (8.95%) Business Analyst
13 18 (5.75%) JavaScript Developer
13 18 (5.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (25.88%) NumPy
1 81 (25.88%) Pandas
2 73 (23.32%) SciPy
3 61 (19.49%) React
4 50 (15.97%) FIX Protocol
5 44 (14.06%) AngularJS
5 44 (14.06%) Vue
6 35 (11.18%) Protocol Buffers
7 34 (10.86%) gRPC
8 26 (8.31%) Node.js
9 25 (7.99%) .NET
10 24 (7.67%) REST
11 18 (5.75%) FastAPI
11 18 (5.75%) Flask
11 18 (5.75%) Middleware
11 18 (5.75%) Polars
12 10 (3.19%) .NET Framework
12 10 (3.19%) Redux
13 9 (2.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 9 (2.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (40.26%) Fixed Income
2 103 (32.91%) Equities
3 92 (29.39%) Derivative
4 77 (24.60%) Hedge funds
5 34 (10.86%) Pricing Data
6 23 (7.35%) Algorithms
7 17 (5.43%) Cloud Native
8 16 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (4.79%) Data Structures
10 10 (3.19%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (3.19%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (2.88%) Onboarding
12 7 (2.24%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.92%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
13 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.28%) Clustering
14 4 (1.28%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.45%) Linux
2 26 (8.31%) Unix
3 16 (5.11%) Windows
4 4 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (41.53%) Agile
2 113 (36.10%) Software Engineering
3 71 (22.68%) Investment Management
4 70 (22.36%) Asset Management
5 63 (20.13%) Low Latency
6 62 (19.81%) Risk Management
7 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (15.97%) Electronic Trading
9 47 (15.02%) Analytics
10 44 (14.06%) Mathematics
11 41 (13.10%) CI/CD
12 40 (12.78%) DevOps
13 37 (11.82%) Fintech
14 32 (10.22%) Multithreading
14 32 (10.22%) Scrum
15 30 (9.58%) Computer Science
16 27 (8.63%) Clean Code
16 27 (8.63%) Data Engineering
17 26 (8.31%) Order Management
18 22 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 152 (48.56%) Python
2 123 (39.30%) Java
3 102 (32.59%) JavaScript
4 71 (22.68%) TypeScript
5 70 (22.36%) SQL
6 55 (17.57%) C#
7 54 (17.25%) C++
8 18 (5.75%) Rust
9 14 (4.47%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.19%) VBA
11 4 (1.28%) Bash
11 4 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.32%) C
13 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (9.27%) Degree
2 15 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.88%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.60%) PhD
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.64%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.32%) ACCA
7 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) CIMA
7 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.83%) QA
2 10 (3.19%) MiFID
3 5 (1.60%) GDPR
4 4 (1.28%) Basel III
4 4 (1.28%) EMIR
5 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) Basel II
7 1 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.32%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) SEPA
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (10.54%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (2.88%) Ansible
4 6 (1.92%) Kibana
4 6 (1.92%) logstash
4 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.28%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.28%) Terraform
6 3 (0.96%) Grafana
6 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.64%) Control-M
7 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.39%) Solace
3 19 (6.07%) Murex
4 18 (5.75%) Oracle
5 8 (2.56%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.24%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.92%) Sophis
8 5 (1.60%) Splunk
9 4 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.28%) Portware
9 4 (1.28%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.28%) Reuters
10 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.96%) CQG
10 3 (0.96%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.96%) TOWER Software
10 3 (0.96%) Tradeweb
10 3 (0.96%) Wallstreet Suite
11 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow