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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 172 296
Rank change year-on-year -200 +124 -113
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 212 369 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.52% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 4.47% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 312 221
10th Percentile £450 £550 £500
25th Percentile £509 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £775 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £850
90th Percentile £950 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £775 £725
% change year-on-year -16.13% +6.90% -3.33%
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 12,552 8,264 11,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.53% 33.98% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,986 5,390 7,588
10th Percentile £300 £300 £256
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -1.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £749 £788 £780
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.71% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 309 795
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.32 £22.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% +23.64% +17.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.20 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% +18.18% +22.22%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -110 206 £684 -14.56% 82
Yorkshire -61 2 £575 +43.21% 1
Midlands -67 2 - - 3
North of England -78 2 £575 +20.80% 7
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
South East -51 1 - - 30
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 10 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.83%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.42%) Summit
4 2 (0.94%) Findur
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.94%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Endur
5 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.47%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.47%) Global One
5 1 (0.47%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.38%) Azure
2 21 (9.91%) Power Platform
3 18 (8.49%) AWS
4 12 (5.66%) PowerApps
5 10 (4.72%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.30%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.89%) GCP
10 4 (1.89%) npm
10 4 (1.89%) SaaS
10 4 (1.89%) Yarn
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) Multicast
2 2 (0.94%) RTMP
2 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.55%) KDB
2 13 (6.13%) Kdb+
2 13 (6.13%) Power BI
3 10 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.30%) Tableau
5 6 (2.83%) Tick Data
6 5 (2.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.42%) Metadata
7 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.94%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.94%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.94%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.94%) Dremio
8 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.13%) JIRA
2 10 (4.72%) Git
3 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.36%) webpack
5 4 (1.89%) Gradle
6 2 (0.94%) Maven
6 2 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) GCC
7 1 (0.47%) GDB
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) NUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) Subversion
7 1 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 139 (65.57%) Finance
2 96 (45.28%) Banking
3 95 (44.81%) Front Office
4 66 (31.13%) Social Skills
5 43 (20.28%) Investment Banking
6 32 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.55%) Financial Institution
8 13 (6.13%) Back Office
9 7 (3.30%) Law
9 7 (3.30%) Legal
10 5 (2.36%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Retail
12 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (46.70%) Developer
2 38 (17.92%) Analyst
3 36 (16.98%) Java Developer
4 33 (15.57%) Business Analyst
5 31 (14.62%) Senior
6 14 (6.60%) Python Developer
7 10 (4.72%) FX Business Analyst
7 10 (4.72%) Lead
7 10 (4.72%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.25%) KDB Developer
8 9 (4.25%) RAD Developer
9 8 (3.77%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.77%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 7 (3.30%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.30%) Front Office Developer
10 7 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.83%) Consultant
11 6 (2.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.74%) FIX Protocol
2 18 (8.49%) React
3 16 (7.55%) NumPy
3 16 (7.55%) Pandas
4 14 (6.60%) REST
5 10 (4.72%) CSS
6 9 (4.25%) COM
7 8 (3.77%) .NET
8 7 (3.30%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.30%) HTML
8 7 (3.30%) SciPy
9 6 (2.83%) Dask
9 6 (2.83%) Spring
9 6 (2.83%) Ultra Messaging
9 6 (2.83%) XML
10 5 (2.36%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.36%) Kafka
10 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (2.36%) Polars
10 5 (2.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.70%) Equities
2 41 (19.34%) Fixed Income
3 37 (17.45%) Derivative
4 25 (11.79%) Hedge funds
5 22 (10.38%) Algorithms
6 19 (8.96%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (4.25%) Cloud Native
8 9 (4.25%) Market Risk
8 9 (4.25%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.77%) Data Structures
10 7 (3.30%) Credit Risk
10 7 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.89%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.94%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.21%) Linux
2 18 (8.49%) Unix
3 4 (1.89%) Windows
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.89%) Low Latency
2 53 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (19.81%) Analytics
4 39 (18.40%) Agile
5 37 (17.45%) Risk Management
6 34 (16.04%) Electronic Trading
7 27 (12.74%) CI/CD
8 26 (12.26%) Data Analysis
9 25 (11.79%) Software Engineering
10 24 (11.32%) Mathematics
11 23 (10.85%) Multithreading
11 23 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (10.38%) AI
13 21 (9.91%) Computer Science
13 21 (9.91%) Scrum
14 20 (9.43%) Data Protection
14 20 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (8.49%) DevOps
17 16 (7.55%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.32%) Java
2 49 (23.11%) Python
3 48 (22.64%) SQL
4 28 (13.21%) C#
5 27 (12.74%) C++
6 19 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.19%) VBA
9 7 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.36%) Rust
11 4 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.42%) Perl
12 3 (1.42%) Scala
13 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) Bash
14 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (9.43%) Degree
2 9 (4.25%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.83%) PhD
4 5 (2.36%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.89%) PMP
5 4 (1.89%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) CBAP
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
7 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.55%) QA
2 5 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.36%) Basel III
2 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.42%) EMIR
4 3 (1.42%) GAAP
4 3 (1.42%) IFRS
4 3 (1.42%) MiFID
4 3 (1.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.94%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.72%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.30%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (2.83%) Ansible
4 3 (1.42%) Control-M
4 3 (1.42%) Grafana
4 3 (1.42%) Kibana
5 2 (0.94%) logstash
5 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.47%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.91%) Murex
2 17 (8.02%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.19%) Oracle
4 10 (4.72%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.77%) Solace
6 6 (2.83%) SAP
7 5 (2.36%) IBM
8 4 (1.89%) Workday
9 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.42%) Splunk
9 3 (1.42%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.94%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.94%) Charles River
10 2 (0.94%) Citrix
10 2 (0.94%) Informatica
10 2 (0.94%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.94%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.94%) Sybase
10 2 (0.94%) Tradeweb