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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 203 316
Rank change year-on-year -140 +113 -140
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 215 342 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.31% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 3.98% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 289 213
10th Percentile £463 £550 £500
25th Percentile £525 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £751 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +7.21% -9.68%
75th Percentile £856 £894 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £729 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -2.83% +7.14% -9.68%
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 11,412 8,597 11,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 32.98% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,302 5,156 7,897
10th Percentile £275 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 246 739
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.51 £13.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.51 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +15.38% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -75 211 £750 -3.23% 88
Yorkshire -50 2 £575 +43.21%
North of England -64 2 £575 +37.72% 1
Midlands -56 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 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 12 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.72%) Apache
3 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.79%) Confluence
3 6 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.93%) 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%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) RMDS
4 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.88%) AWS
2 20 (9.30%) Azure
3 18 (8.37%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.58%) dbt
5 10 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 9 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.19%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.72%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.26%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.26%) GCP
8 7 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.86%) GitHub
10 4 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.86%) SaaS
11 3 (1.40%) npm
11 3 (1.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Multicast
2 2 (0.93%) RTMP
2 2 (0.93%) 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 (7.44%) KDB
1 16 (7.44%) Kdb+
2 13 (6.05%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.58%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (5.58%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (5.58%) Dremio
4 11 (5.12%) Power BI
5 8 (3.72%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (3.72%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.79%) Tick Data
7 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.86%) Tableau
8 3 (1.40%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.93%) Big Data
9 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (6.51%) Git
2 11 (5.12%) JIRA
3 6 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.40%) GCC
4 3 (1.40%) GDB
4 3 (1.40%) Gradle
4 3 (1.40%) webpack
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Subversion
6 1 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 146 (67.91%) Finance
2 111 (51.63%) Front Office
3 101 (46.98%) Banking
4 76 (35.35%) Social Skills
5 48 (22.33%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (10.70%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.19%) Back Office
9 7 (3.26%) Law
10 6 (2.79%) Legal
11 5 (2.33%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) International Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.93%) Retail
12 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 113 (52.56%) Developer
2 37 (17.21%) Java Developer
3 31 (14.42%) Senior
4 30 (13.95%) Analyst
5 28 (13.02%) Business Analyst
6 24 (11.16%) Python Developer
7 17 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) Quantitative Developer
9 13 (6.05%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Java Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) KDB Developer
11 10 (4.65%) Lead
11 10 (4.65%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 9 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.42%) FIX Protocol
2 30 (13.95%) NumPy
2 30 (13.95%) Pandas
3 21 (9.77%) SciPy
4 20 (9.30%) React
5 15 (6.98%) REST
6 14 (6.51%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.05%) Vue
8 11 (5.12%) .NET
8 11 (5.12%) CSS
9 10 (4.65%) HTML
10 9 (4.19%) COM
10 9 (4.19%) FastAPI
10 9 (4.19%) Flask
10 9 (4.19%) Polars
10 9 (4.19%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (3.72%) gRPC
12 6 (2.79%) Dask
13 5 (2.33%) XML
14 4 (1.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.98%) Equities
2 54 (25.12%) Fixed Income
3 51 (23.72%) Derivative
4 35 (16.28%) Hedge funds
5 22 (10.23%) Algorithms
6 16 (7.44%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (5.58%) Cloud Native
8 11 (5.12%) Data Structures
9 10 (4.65%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (3.72%) Pricing Data
11 7 (3.26%) Credit Risk
11 7 (3.26%) Market Risk
11 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (1.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
16 2 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.60%) Linux
2 20 (9.30%) Unix
3 10 (4.65%) Windows
4 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.12%) Agile
1 54 (25.12%) Low Latency
2 50 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.47%) Analytics
3 44 (20.47%) Risk Management
4 39 (18.14%) Mathematics
5 35 (16.28%) Software Engineering
6 29 (13.49%) Electronic Trading
7 26 (12.09%) Scrum
8 25 (11.63%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.63%) Data Analysis
8 25 (11.63%) Multithreading
9 22 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (9.77%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.84%) DevOps
12 17 (7.91%) Asset Management
12 17 (7.91%) Data Protection
12 17 (7.91%) Pricing Analytics
13 16 (7.44%) Migration
13 16 (7.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.21%) Java
2 75 (34.88%) Python
3 48 (22.33%) SQL
4 38 (17.67%) C++
5 35 (16.28%) C#
6 33 (15.35%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.37%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.58%) VBA
9 9 (4.19%) Rust
10 8 (3.72%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Perl
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
12 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (11.16%) Degree
2 10 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.79%) PhD
4 4 (1.86%) PMP
5 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.47%) CBAP
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.51%) QA
2 5 (2.33%) Basel III
2 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.86%) MiFID
4 3 (1.40%) EMIR
4 3 (1.40%) GAAP
4 3 (1.40%) IFRS
5 2 (0.93%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (6.51%) Docker
2 4 (1.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.72%) Ansible
3 7 (3.26%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.40%) Terraform
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) logstash
5 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
6 1 (0.47%) Grafana
6 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (8.37%) Microsoft
1 18 (8.37%) Murex
2 14 (6.51%) Oracle
3 7 (3.26%) Solace
4 6 (2.79%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.33%) Sophis
6 4 (1.86%) SAP
6 4 (1.86%) Workday
7 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.40%) Splunk
7 3 (1.40%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.93%) Charles River
8 2 (0.93%) Citrix
8 2 (0.93%) Informatica
8 2 (0.93%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.93%) Sybase
8 2 (0.93%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.47%) Ping Identity