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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 195 313
Rank change year-on-year -148 +118 -139
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 211 355 256
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.33% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 4.08% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 306 212
10th Percentile £463 £550 £500
25th Percentile £559 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.70%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
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 11,268 8,698 11,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 32.64% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,195 5,221 7,700
10th Percentile £281 £270 £258
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £538
% change year-on-year -6.19% -0.93% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 249 615
10th Percentile £15.20 £18.43 £14.38
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +57.88%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.75 £61.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.56 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.07% - +55.66%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -84 208 £750 -0.03% 62
Yorkshire -52 2 £575 +43.21% 6
North of England -53 2 £575 +37.72% 15
Midlands -46 1 - - 9
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 20 (9.48%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.64%) Apache
3 6 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.84%) Confluence
4 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.95%) Summit
4 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.47%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) RMDS
4 1 (0.47%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (18.48%) AWS
2 20 (9.48%) dbt
3 18 (8.53%) Azure
4 16 (7.58%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.64%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.27%) GCP
7 8 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.32%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.84%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.90%) GitHub
11 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.90%) SaaS
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) Multicast
2 2 (0.95%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) RTMP
2 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
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 20 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (9.48%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (9.48%) Apache Iceberg
1 20 (9.48%) Dremio
2 14 (6.64%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (6.64%) Data Lake
2 14 (6.64%) KDB
2 14 (6.64%) Kdb+
3 13 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.27%) Power BI
5 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.90%) Tableau
6 4 (1.90%) Tick Data
7 3 (1.42%) Data Mart
7 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.95%) Big Data
8 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.95%) Redis
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.64%) Git
2 10 (4.74%) JIRA
3 6 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.42%) GCC
4 3 (1.42%) GDB
5 2 (0.95%) Gradle
5 2 (0.95%) webpack
6 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 146 (69.19%) Finance
2 115 (54.50%) Front Office
3 105 (49.76%) Banking
4 75 (35.55%) Social Skills
5 53 (25.12%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (11.85%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.27%) Back Office
8 7 (3.32%) Law
8 7 (3.32%) Legal
9 6 (2.84%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.95%) International Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 104 (49.29%) Developer
2 34 (16.11%) Senior
3 30 (14.22%) Java Developer
4 29 (13.74%) Analyst
5 27 (12.80%) Business Analyst
5 27 (12.80%) Python Developer
6 25 (11.85%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (9.48%) AWS Software Engineer
7 20 (9.48%) Python Engineer
7 20 (9.48%) Python Software Engineer
8 18 (8.53%) Java Engineer
9 16 (7.58%) AWS Developer
9 16 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
10 15 (7.11%) Senior Java Engineer
10 15 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Quantitative Developer
11 14 (6.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) JavaScript Developer
12 10 (4.74%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.48%) NumPy
1 39 (18.48%) Pandas
2 30 (14.22%) FIX Protocol
2 30 (14.22%) SciPy
3 22 (10.43%) React
4 17 (8.06%) AngularJS
5 16 (7.58%) Vue
6 15 (7.11%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (6.64%) gRPC
7 14 (6.64%) REST
8 11 (5.21%) .NET
9 10 (4.74%) CSS
9 10 (4.74%) FastAPI
9 10 (4.74%) Flask
9 10 (4.74%) Polars
10 9 (4.27%) COM
10 9 (4.27%) HTML
11 6 (2.84%) Dask
11 6 (2.84%) Node.js
12 4 (1.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.86%) Equities
2 59 (27.96%) Fixed Income
3 57 (27.01%) Derivative
4 42 (19.91%) Hedge funds
5 22 (10.43%) Algorithms
6 14 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (6.64%) Pricing Data
7 12 (5.69%) Cloud Native
8 11 (5.21%) Data Structures
9 9 (4.27%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.79%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (3.32%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.84%) Credit Risk
12 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (2.84%) Market Risk
13 5 (2.37%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (1.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
16 2 (0.95%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.48%) Linux
2 22 (10.43%) Unix
3 11 (5.21%) Windows
4 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (28.44%) Agile
2 50 (23.70%) Low Latency
3 49 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (20.85%) Software Engineering
5 43 (20.38%) Risk Management
6 41 (19.43%) Analytics
7 39 (18.48%) Mathematics
8 28 (13.27%) Electronic Trading
9 25 (11.85%) Asset Management
9 25 (11.85%) Scrum
10 24 (11.37%) CI/CD
10 24 (11.37%) Data Analysis
10 24 (11.37%) Multithreading
11 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.95%) Investment Management
13 19 (9.00%) Computer Science
14 18 (8.53%) DevOps
15 17 (8.06%) Pricing Analytics
16 16 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (7.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (39.81%) Python
2 79 (37.44%) Java
3 50 (23.70%) SQL
4 42 (19.91%) JavaScript
5 39 (18.48%) C++
6 34 (16.11%) C#
7 25 (11.85%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.69%) VBA
9 10 (4.74%) Rust
10 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.95%) Perl
12 2 (0.95%) Scala
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (10.43%) Degree
2 10 (4.74%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.84%) PhD
4 4 (1.90%) PMP
5 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.95%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.47%) ACCA
7 1 (0.47%) CBAP
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
7 1 (0.47%) CIMA
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.37%) Basel III
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.90%) MiFID
5 3 (1.42%) EMIR
5 3 (1.42%) GAAP
5 3 (1.42%) IFRS
6 2 (0.95%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.95%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 15 (7.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) ITRS Geneos
3 7 (3.32%) Ansible
4 3 (1.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.95%) Kibana
5 2 (0.95%) logstash
5 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Microsoft
1 17 (8.06%) Murex
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle
3 7 (3.32%) Bloomberg
3 7 (3.32%) Solace
4 5 (2.37%) SAP
4 5 (2.37%) Sophis
5 4 (1.90%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.90%) Workday
6 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.42%) Splunk
6 3 (1.42%) Tradeweb
7 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.95%) Informatica
7 2 (0.95%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.95%) Sybase
8 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.47%) Ping Identity