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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 182 178
Rank change year-on-year -200 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 242 385 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.53% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 4.39% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 313 395
10th Percentile £450 £525 £581
25th Percentile £538 £663 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £916 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 £895 £895
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 26
Median hourly rate £58.00 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.71% +25.00% -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £58.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.64% -16.61% -

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 14,253 8,762 11,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.84% 34.76% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,885 5,618 7,314
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 411 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.20
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +66.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.12 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.54% +61.59%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -112 215 £725 -6.45% 57
North of England -73 9 £875 +77.85% 2
Midlands -61 7 £563 +103.62% 3
East Midlands -4 6 £550 - 2
South West -32 4 £875 +133.33% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
North West -54 3 £875 +77.85% 2
Yorkshire -47 2 - -
South East -58 2 £613 +48.94% 16
West Midlands -61 1 £875 +216.74% 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.07%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) IIS
4 2 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Orchestrade
2 5 (2.07%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.65%) Summit
4 3 (1.24%) Findur
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.83%) Cognos Controller
5 2 (0.83%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.83%) Global One
5 2 (0.83%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.83%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.83%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.41%) Actimize
6 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.41%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.26%) Azure
2 13 (5.37%) AWS
2 13 (5.37%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.89%) Power Automate
4 7 (2.89%) PowerApps
4 7 (2.89%) SaaS
5 4 (1.65%) Azure Functions
5 4 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.65%) GCP
5 4 (1.65%) Serverless
6 3 (1.24%) npm
6 3 (1.24%) Yarn
7 2 (0.83%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (0.83%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.83%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.31%) Multicast
2 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) RTMP
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.20%) KDB
2 11 (4.55%) Power BI
3 8 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.89%) Tableau
5 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.07%) Kdb+
6 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.24%) Big Data
8 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.24%) Redis
8 3 (1.24%) Tick Data
9 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.83%) Metadata
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.41%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (8.26%) JIRA
2 8 (3.31%) Git
3 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.65%) webpack
4 3 (1.24%) GitLab
4 3 (1.24%) Gradle
4 3 (1.24%) Maven
5 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.83%) JUnit
5 2 (0.83%) Postman
5 2 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) Storybook
5 2 (0.83%) TestNG
5 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) NUnit
6 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 159 (65.70%) Finance
2 122 (50.41%) Banking
3 106 (43.80%) Front Office
4 84 (34.71%) Investment Banking
5 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
6 37 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.79%) Back Office
8 10 (4.13%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.89%) Legal
10 5 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.65%) Billing
11 4 (1.65%) Law
11 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Retail
13 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (52.89%) Developer
2 63 (26.03%) Java Developer
3 61 (25.21%) Senior
4 45 (18.60%) Senior Developer
5 44 (18.18%) Analyst
6 37 (15.29%) Business Analyst
7 34 (14.05%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (13.64%) React Developer
9 31 (12.81%) UI Developer
10 29 (11.98%) Senior React Developer
11 28 (11.57%) Senior UI Developer
12 24 (9.92%) C# Developer
13 12 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.31%) Front Office Developer
15 8 (3.31%) Lead
16 7 (2.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 7 (2.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (2.89%) Technical Analyst
16 7 (2.89%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.73%) React
2 36 (14.88%) Redux
3 21 (8.68%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (6.20%) Spring
5 14 (5.79%) .NET
5 14 (5.79%) Kafka
6 9 (3.72%) CSS
6 9 (3.72%) Middleware
6 9 (3.72%) XML
7 8 (3.31%) RxJava
8 7 (2.89%) Ultra Messaging
9 6 (2.48%) HTML
9 6 (2.48%) OpenFin
9 6 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.48%) Web Services
10 5 (2.07%) Electron
10 5 (2.07%) REST
11 3 (1.24%) HTML5
11 3 (1.24%) JSON
11 3 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.34%) Fixed Income
2 53 (21.90%) Derivative
2 53 (21.90%) Equities
3 32 (13.22%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (6.61%) Algorithms
6 14 (5.79%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.31%) OTC Derivatives
9 7 (2.89%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.89%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.48%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.24%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.24%) Exotic Derivative
12 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.83%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.61%) Linux
2 10 (4.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.58%) Low Latency
2 72 (29.75%) Electronic Trading
3 53 (21.90%) Agile
3 53 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (17.36%) CI/CD
5 37 (15.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (11.16%) AI
6 27 (11.16%) Software Engineering
7 26 (10.74%) Microservices
7 26 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
8 25 (10.33%) Event-Driven
9 24 (9.92%) Analytics
9 24 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (9.50%) Multithreading
11 22 (9.09%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.68%) DevOps
13 20 (8.26%) Validation
14 18 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (7.02%) Business Analysis
15 17 (7.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (40.91%) Java
2 62 (25.62%) C#
3 54 (22.31%) TypeScript
4 43 (17.77%) JavaScript
5 41 (16.94%) SQL
6 30 (12.40%) Python
7 16 (6.61%) C++
8 5 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.24%) Scala
10 3 (1.24%) VBA
11 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 1 (0.41%) ABAP
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (10.33%) Degree
2 10 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.31%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.48%) PhD
5 6 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) ACCA
6 2 (0.83%) CIMA
6 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.96%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.89%) IFRS
4 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.65%) GAAP
4 4 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.24%) EMIR
5 3 (1.24%) MiFID
5 3 (1.24%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) Control-M
3 3 (1.24%) Ansible
3 3 (1.24%) Grafana
3 3 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.83%) Kibana
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (11.57%) Murex
2 13 (5.37%) Bloomberg
3 11 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.55%) Oracle
4 9 (3.72%) IBM
4 9 (3.72%) Solace
5 7 (2.89%) SAP
6 3 (1.24%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.83%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.83%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (0.83%) Calypso
7 2 (0.83%) Cognos
7 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.83%) Sybase
7 2 (0.83%) Workday
8 1 (0.41%) Apple
8 1 (0.41%) Citrix
8 1 (0.41%) Informatica
8 1 (0.41%) Reuters
8 1 (0.41%) Temenos