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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 195 261
Rank change year-on-year -111 +66 -81
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 258 394 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.34% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 4.15% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 336 283
10th Percentile £463 £500 £499
25th Percentile £565 £638 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £825
90th Percentile £985 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 11,131 9,488 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.80% 32.35% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,739 8,208
10th Percentile £282 £285 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.68%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 287 456
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.60 £16.80
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.30 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% -14.04% +24.64%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.27 £42.40
% change year-on-year -18.21% -21.54% +21.15%

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 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -60 254 £750 -6.25% 50
North of England -40 2 £575 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire -45 2 £575 +43.21%
East of England - 2 £438 - 4
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 37 (14.34%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (10.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.55%) Confluence
4 4 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.71%) Aladdin
1 7 (2.71%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.55%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.39%) Endur
4 1 (0.39%) Findur
4 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.39%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.39%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.39%) RMDS
4 1 (0.39%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.64%) AWS
2 37 (14.34%) dbt
3 26 (10.08%) Azure
3 26 (10.08%) Snowflake
4 16 (6.20%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.43%) GCP
6 10 (3.88%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.49%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.94%) GitHub
11 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.55%) npm
12 4 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.65%) Multicast
2 4 (1.55%) Firewall
2 4 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) Internet
3 2 (0.78%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.34%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (14.34%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (14.34%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (14.34%) Dremio
2 26 (10.08%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (10.08%) Data Lake
3 20 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.43%) KDB
5 13 (5.04%) Kdb+
6 12 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.71%) Power BI
8 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.16%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.16%) Tableau
9 3 (1.16%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.78%) Big Data
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.14%) Git
2 11 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.71%) GCC
3 7 (2.71%) GDB
3 7 (2.71%) JIRA
4 5 (1.94%) Gradle
5 4 (1.55%) webpack
6 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.78%) Maven
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 183 (70.93%) Finance
2 143 (55.43%) Front Office
3 141 (54.65%) Banking
4 94 (36.43%) Social Skills
5 78 (30.23%) Investment Banking
6 26 (10.08%) Financial Institution
7 25 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.04%) Back Office
9 6 (2.33%) International Banking
9 6 (2.33%) Law
10 5 (1.94%) Legal
11 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.16%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.78%) Retail
13 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (49.61%) Developer
2 54 (20.93%) Senior
3 44 (17.05%) Software Engineer
4 42 (16.28%) Python Developer
5 37 (14.34%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (14.34%) AWS Software Engineer
5 37 (14.34%) Python Engineer
5 37 (14.34%) Python Software Engineer
6 31 (12.02%) Java Engineer
7 30 (11.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 29 (11.24%) Analyst
8 29 (11.24%) Java Developer
9 27 (10.47%) Senior Java Engineer
9 27 (10.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (10.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 25 (9.69%) AWS Developer
11 25 (9.69%) Business Analyst
12 16 (6.20%) Senior Developer
13 14 (5.43%) JavaScript Developer
14 11 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (23.26%) NumPy
1 60 (23.26%) Pandas
2 51 (19.77%) SciPy
3 42 (16.28%) FIX Protocol
4 38 (14.73%) React
5 27 (10.47%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (10.08%) gRPC
7 25 (9.69%) AngularJS
7 25 (9.69%) Vue
8 20 (7.75%) .NET
8 20 (7.75%) REST
9 14 (5.43%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.43%) Flask
9 14 (5.43%) Polars
10 11 (4.26%) Node.js
11 10 (3.88%) CSS
11 10 (3.88%) Middleware
12 9 (3.49%) COM
12 9 (3.49%) HTML
13 8 (3.10%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 90 (34.88%) Fixed Income
2 78 (30.23%) Derivative
3 76 (29.46%) Equities
4 62 (24.03%) Hedge funds
5 26 (10.08%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.53%) Algorithms
7 18 (6.98%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (4.65%) Data Structures
10 11 (4.26%) Product Ownership
11 9 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (3.49%) Onboarding
12 8 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
15 4 (1.55%) Credit Derivative
15 4 (1.55%) Credit Risk
15 4 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (1.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
16 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.77%) Linux
2 22 (8.53%) Unix
3 13 (5.04%) Windows
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.50%) Agile
2 72 (27.91%) Software Engineering
3 61 (23.64%) Low Latency
4 52 (20.16%) Risk Management
5 49 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.22%) Electronic Trading
7 44 (17.05%) Analytics
8 42 (16.28%) Asset Management
9 41 (15.89%) Investment Management
10 39 (15.12%) Mathematics
11 32 (12.40%) CI/CD
12 30 (11.63%) DevOps
13 29 (11.24%) Multithreading
14 25 (9.69%) Scrum
15 24 (9.30%) Clean Code
16 23 (8.91%) Computer Science
16 23 (8.91%) Data Analysis
17 21 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 20 (7.75%) Data Engineering
18 20 (7.75%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.90%) Python
2 100 (38.76%) Java
3 68 (26.36%) JavaScript
4 61 (23.64%) SQL
5 47 (18.22%) C++
6 43 (16.67%) C#
6 43 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.43%) Rust
8 13 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.65%) VBA
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (9.69%) Degree
2 10 (3.88%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.33%) PhD
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.78%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.39%) ACCA
6 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.39%) CBAP
6 1 (0.39%) CIMA
6 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) QA
2 9 (3.49%) MiFID
3 6 (2.33%) EMIR
4 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Basel III
6 1 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.20%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (3.88%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) Kibana
4 6 (2.33%) logstash
5 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.55%) Terraform
6 3 (1.16%) BladeLogic
6 3 (1.16%) Grafana
6 3 (1.16%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.59%) Murex
3 16 (6.20%) Solace
4 13 (5.04%) Oracle
5 9 (3.49%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.33%) Sophis
6 6 (2.33%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.55%) Portware
7 4 (1.55%) Splunk
7 4 (1.55%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.16%) CQG
8 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.16%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.16%) Reuters
8 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.78%) Calypso
9 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.78%) Refinitiv