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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 239 169
Rank change year-on-year -194 -70 +69
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 217 324 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 1.15% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 3.16% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 234 381
10th Percentile £506 £494 £563
25th Percentile £563 £625 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £838 £888
90th Percentile £954 £875 £913
UK median daily rate £710 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -5.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 27
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £64.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +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 16,203 10,255 9,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.60% 36.46% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,736 6,418 5,966
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £644 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £820
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £529
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.94% -3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 534 351
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.78 £16.85
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.51 £24.34
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -44.34% +14.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.13 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.58% -40.45% +2.62%

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 14 October 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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

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 14 October 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 -158 193 £708 -5.67% 276
North of England -71 9 £875 +103.96% 4
Midlands -48 5 £563 +81.45% 4
North West -52 5 £593 +38.11% 4
South West - 5 £875 - 5
East Midlands -14 4 £550 - 3
North East - 4 £875 -
East of England -29 1 - - 3
West Midlands -46 1 £875 +182.26% 1
South East - 1 £613 - 6
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 5 (2.30%) IIS
2 3 (1.38%) CMS
2 3 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) LaTeX
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (1.84%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.92%) Actimize
3 2 (0.92%) Cognos Controller
3 2 (0.92%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.92%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.92%) Summit
4 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.46%) Endur
4 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.99%) Azure
2 11 (5.07%) AWS
3 6 (2.76%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.38%) GCP
6 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (0.92%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.92%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.92%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.92%) SaaS
7 2 (0.92%) Serverless
7 2 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.29%) Multicast
2 6 (2.76%) VLAN
2 6 (2.76%) WAN
3 4 (1.84%) Spanning Tree
3 4 (1.84%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.23%) KDB
2 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.84%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.84%) Power BI
5 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.46%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.46%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.46%) MS Access
7 1 (0.46%) Redis
7 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.53%) JIRA
2 6 (2.76%) Storybook
3 5 (2.30%) Git
3 5 (2.30%) Vite
4 2 (0.92%) GCC
4 2 (0.92%) GDB
4 2 (0.92%) GitLab
4 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.46%) Gradle
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) JMeter
5 1 (0.46%) JUnit
5 1 (0.46%) Maven
5 1 (0.46%) NUnit
5 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.46%) TestNG
5 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 146 (67.28%) Finance
2 125 (57.60%) Banking
3 105 (48.39%) Front Office
4 80 (36.87%) Investment Banking
5 60 (27.65%) Social Skills
6 31 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.99%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.15%) Legal
9 6 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.30%) Back Office
10 5 (2.30%) Law
11 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.38%) French Language
12 3 (1.38%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.38%) Retail
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (45.16%) Developer
2 52 (23.96%) Senior
3 45 (20.74%) Java Developer
4 44 (20.28%) Analyst
5 39 (17.97%) Senior Developer
6 36 (16.59%) Business Analyst
7 31 (14.29%) React Developer
7 31 (14.29%) UI Developer
8 30 (13.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (11.98%) Senior React Developer
10 25 (11.52%) Senior UI Developer
11 24 (11.06%) C# Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Banking Analyst
13 9 (4.15%) Lead
14 8 (3.69%) Front Office Developer
15 7 (3.23%) Architect
15 7 (3.23%) Network Engineer
16 6 (2.76%) Project Manager
16 6 (2.76%) Python Developer
16 6 (2.76%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (23.04%) React
2 35 (16.13%) Redux
3 16 (7.37%) Kafka
4 14 (6.45%) .NET
4 14 (6.45%) Spring
5 10 (4.61%) Middleware
6 9 (4.15%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.69%) REST
7 8 (3.69%) RxJava
7 8 (3.69%) WebSockets
7 8 (3.69%) XML
8 7 (3.23%) OpenFin
9 6 (2.76%) CSS
9 6 (2.76%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.30%) HTML
10 5 (2.30%) RxJS
10 5 (2.30%) Vitest
10 5 (2.30%) Web Services
11 4 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.84%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 78 (35.94%) Fixed Income
2 70 (32.26%) Derivative
3 50 (23.04%) Equities
4 32 (14.75%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.53%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (4.15%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.69%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.69%) Hedge funds
10 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
10 7 (3.23%) OTC Derivatives
11 6 (2.76%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.76%) Exotic Derivative
11 6 (2.76%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.30%) Credit Risk
12 5 (2.30%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.99%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Unix
3 6 (2.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.72%) Low Latency
2 66 (30.41%) Electronic Trading
3 45 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (18.89%) Agile
5 38 (17.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (17.05%) CI/CD
7 35 (16.13%) Validation
8 32 (14.75%) Software Engineering
9 29 (13.36%) Analytics
9 29 (13.36%) Event-Driven
10 27 (12.44%) Requirements Gathering
11 26 (11.98%) Microservices
12 23 (10.60%) AI
12 23 (10.60%) Risk Management
12 23 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (9.68%) Business Analysis
13 21 (9.68%) DevOps
14 20 (9.22%) Computer Science
14 20 (9.22%) Migration
15 19 (8.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 75 (34.56%) Java
2 60 (27.65%) C#
3 50 (23.04%) TypeScript
4 40 (18.43%) SQL
5 39 (17.97%) Python
6 37 (17.05%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.83%) C++
8 5 (2.30%) VBA
9 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) ABAP
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) Korn
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 27 (12.44%) Degree
2 12 (5.53%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.61%) PhD
4 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.92%) ACCA
6 2 (0.92%) CCNA
6 2 (0.92%) CCNP
6 2 (0.92%) CIMA
6 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) CCIE
7 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.46%) PMP
7 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.30%) IFRS
2 5 (2.30%) MiFID
2 5 (2.30%) QA
3 4 (1.84%) EMIR
4 2 (0.92%) GAAP
4 2 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.92%) SLA
4 2 (0.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 11 (5.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.84%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Kibana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.98%) Murex
2 18 (8.29%) Bloomberg
3 13 (5.99%) Solace
4 9 (4.15%) Oracle
5 7 (3.23%) Arista
5 7 (3.23%) Cisco
6 6 (2.76%) Aruba
7 5 (2.30%) IBM
7 5 (2.30%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.30%) SAP
8 4 (1.84%) Databricks
9 3 (1.38%) Calypso
9 3 (1.38%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.92%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.92%) Cognos
10 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.92%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.92%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.92%) Tradeweb
11 1 (0.46%) Juniper