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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 169 267
Rank change year-on-year -216 +98 -83
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 209 380 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 1.56% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 4.57% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 324 251
10th Percentile £450 £566 £543
25th Percentile £506 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £849 £875 £875
90th Percentile £925 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -16.13% +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 12,816 8,313 11,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.70% 34.08% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,125 5,451 7,510
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 314 815
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.27
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.78 £15.14
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +30.71% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £58.59
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%

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 April 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 15 April 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 -122 200 £700 -9.68% 61
North of England -75 5 £413 -13.34% 1
Yorkshire -52 4 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -64 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -49 1 £250 -53.14% 1
South East -51 1 - - 13
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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.87%) Confluence
3 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.44%) Findur
3 3 (1.44%) Summit
4 2 (0.96%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.96%) Global One
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.96%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.96%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.48%) Actimize
5 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.48%) Endur
5 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.48%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.48%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.48%) Azure
2 22 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 14 (6.70%) AWS
4 12 (5.74%) PowerApps
5 11 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.78%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.39%) SaaS
10 4 (1.91%) GCP
10 4 (1.91%) npm
10 4 (1.91%) Yarn
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.44%) GitHub
11 3 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) Multicast
2 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.96%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) RTMP
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.18%) KDB
2 14 (6.70%) Power BI
3 10 (4.78%) Kdb+
4 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.31%) Tableau
5 6 (2.87%) Tick Data
6 4 (1.91%) Big Data
7 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.44%) Metadata
7 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.96%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.96%) Redis
8 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.22%) JIRA
2 8 (3.83%) Git
3 7 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.39%) webpack
5 3 (1.44%) Gradle
5 3 (1.44%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.96%) GitLab
6 2 (0.96%) JUnit
6 2 (0.96%) Postman
6 2 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.96%) Selenium
6 2 (0.96%) TestNG
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Gatling
7 1 (0.48%) GCC
7 1 (0.48%) GDB
7 1 (0.48%) Newman
7 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 139 (66.51%) Finance
2 95 (45.45%) Banking
3 88 (42.11%) Front Office
4 61 (29.19%) Social Skills
5 43 (20.57%) Investment Banking
6 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.13%) Back Office
8 16 (7.66%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.83%) Legal
10 5 (2.39%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.91%) Law
11 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.44%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Billing
13 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.48%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (46.89%) Developer
2 41 (19.62%) Java Developer
3 37 (17.70%) Analyst
4 32 (15.31%) Business Analyst
4 32 (15.31%) Senior
5 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 10 (4.78%) FX Business Analyst
7 10 (4.78%) Lead
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (3.83%) C# Developer
9 8 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 8 (3.83%) RAD Developer
10 7 (3.35%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) KDB Developer
11 6 (2.87%) Risk Analyst
11 6 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.87%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.40%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (10.53%) React
3 13 (6.22%) REST
4 10 (4.78%) CSS
4 10 (4.78%) NumPy
4 10 (4.78%) Pandas
5 9 (4.31%) .NET
5 9 (4.31%) Redux
6 8 (3.83%) COM
6 8 (3.83%) Kafka
7 7 (3.35%) HTML
7 7 (3.35%) Spring
8 5 (2.39%) Dask
8 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (2.39%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.91%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.91%) Electron
9 4 (1.91%) Middleware
9 4 (1.91%) OpenFin
9 4 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.14%) Equities
2 38 (18.18%) Fixed Income
3 36 (17.22%) Derivative
4 21 (10.05%) Algorithms
5 19 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (8.61%) Hedge funds
7 11 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
8 10 (4.78%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.83%) Market Risk
10 7 (3.35%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.87%) Cloud Native
12 5 (2.39%) Credit Risk
12 5 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (2.39%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.53%) Linux
2 18 (8.61%) Unix
3 3 (1.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.27%) Low Latency
2 54 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (19.62%) Agile
4 37 (17.70%) Electronic Trading
5 36 (17.22%) Analytics
6 33 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 26 (12.44%) AI
7 26 (12.44%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (11.48%) Data Analysis
9 24 (11.48%) Multithreading
10 23 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.53%) Scrum
12 20 (9.57%) Computer Science
12 20 (9.57%) Data Protection
12 20 (9.57%) Software Engineering
13 19 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (8.61%) DevOps
14 18 (8.61%) Mathematics
15 17 (8.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.36%) Java
2 45 (21.53%) SQL
3 36 (17.22%) Python
4 29 (13.88%) C#
5 21 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.61%) C++
6 18 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.31%) VBA
8 4 (1.91%) Perl
8 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.91%) Scala
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) Rust
9 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (8.13%) Degree
2 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
2 6 (2.87%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.39%) PhD
3 5 (2.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.91%) PMP
5 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.48%) ACCA
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) CBAP
6 1 (0.48%) CFA
6 1 (0.48%) CIMA
6 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.61%) QA
2 6 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.39%) Basel III
3 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.44%) EMIR
5 3 (1.44%) GAAP
5 3 (1.44%) IFRS
5 3 (1.44%) MiFID
5 3 (1.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.96%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.87%) Ansible
2 5 (2.39%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.91%) Control-M
4 2 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Kibana
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (9.09%) Murex
2 17 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.78%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.78%) Oracle
4 6 (2.87%) SAP
4 6 (2.87%) Solace
5 5 (2.39%) IBM
6 4 (1.91%) Workday
7 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.44%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.44%) Splunk
8 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.96%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.96%) Calypso
8 2 (0.96%) Charles River
8 2 (0.96%) Citrix
8 2 (0.96%) Informatica
8 2 (0.96%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.96%) Sybase
8 2 (0.96%) Tradeweb