Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 180 192
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 379 501 641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.49% 1.35% 1.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 4.41% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 398 521
10th Percentile £520 £575 £525
25th Percentile £660 £676 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +8.47% +1.72%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £850
90th Percentile - £900 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £738
% change year-on-year -6.25% +8.47% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 26 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.38 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -16.61% - -

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 8,837 11,352 15,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.63% 30.57% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,647 7,308 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +56.48% -10.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.60%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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 -2 352 £775 -3.13% 965
North of England +21 16 £492 -21.28% 32
North West +24 14 £492 -21.28% 22
Midlands +7 5 £276 -53.96% 21
West Midlands +8 4 £276 - 12
South West +7 3 £375 -34.21% 13
South East +48 2 £411 -31.46% 98
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
East Midlands -2 1 - - 9
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (19.53%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (12.93%) Apache
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.53%) Sketch
3 1 (0.26%) Maya
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Kondor
2 3 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (0.79%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.79%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.53%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 123 (32.45%) AWS
2 74 (19.53%) dbt
3 62 (16.36%) GCP
4 49 (12.93%) Snowflake
5 41 (10.82%) Azure
6 11 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.37%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.11%) npm
8 8 (2.11%) Yarn
9 5 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.32%) Dagster
10 4 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.79%) SaaS
12 2 (0.53%) Figma
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) Multicast
2 7 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.58%) Firewall
4 4 (1.06%) BGP
4 4 (1.06%) IOS XR
4 4 (1.06%) MPLS
4 4 (1.06%) OSPF
5 3 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
7 1 (0.26%) DSLAM
7 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) SNMP
7 1 (0.26%) SSH
7 1 (0.26%) Telnet
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (19.53%) Amazon Athena
1 74 (19.53%) Apache Arrow
1 74 (19.53%) Apache Iceberg
1 74 (19.53%) Dremio
2 71 (18.73%) Data Lake
3 36 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (8.71%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (5.28%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.90%) Data Mart
7 8 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.58%) KDB
10 5 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.32%) Power BI
10 5 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.53%) Big Data
12 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.53%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (10.29%) Git
2 17 (4.49%) JIRA
3 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
3 9 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.37%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.11%) webpack
5 5 (1.32%) GCC
5 5 (1.32%) GDB
6 3 (0.79%) Ant
6 3 (0.79%) Gradle
6 3 (0.79%) Maven
7 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.53%) git-flow
7 2 (0.53%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.53%) JUnit
7 2 (0.53%) PROIV
7 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 295 (77.84%) Finance
2 217 (57.26%) Front Office
3 158 (41.69%) Banking
4 106 (27.97%) Investment Banking
5 91 (24.01%) Social Skills
6 59 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.64%) Back Office
9 6 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.32%) International Banking
10 5 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.06%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.53%) Advertising
13 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Games
13 2 (0.53%) Legal
13 2 (0.53%) Local Government
13 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (47.76%) Developer
2 111 (29.29%) Software Engineer
3 74 (19.53%) AWS Engineer
3 74 (19.53%) AWS Software Engineer
4 73 (19.26%) Senior
5 66 (17.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 58 (15.30%) Java Engineer
7 56 (14.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 54 (14.25%) AWS Developer
9 51 (13.46%) Python Developer
10 50 (13.19%) Java Developer
10 50 (13.19%) Python Engineer
10 50 (13.19%) Python Software Engineer
11 42 (11.08%) Analyst
12 33 (8.71%) Senior Developer
12 33 (8.71%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (8.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 31 (8.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (6.33%) Business Analyst
15 21 (5.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.96%) React
2 73 (19.26%) NumPy
2 73 (19.26%) Pandas
3 71 (18.73%) SciPy
4 62 (16.36%) AngularJS
5 54 (14.25%) Vue
6 42 (11.08%) Node.js
6 42 (11.08%) Protocol Buffers
7 39 (10.29%) gRPC
8 38 (10.03%) .NET
9 31 (8.18%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (7.92%) Redux
11 26 (6.86%) Kafka
12 22 (5.80%) ASP.NET
13 21 (5.54%) Middleware
13 21 (5.54%) PySpark
14 20 (5.28%) CSS
15 15 (3.96%) REST
15 15 (3.96%) Web Services
16 14 (3.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 175 (46.17%) Fixed Income
2 165 (43.54%) Equities
3 141 (37.20%) Derivative
4 117 (30.87%) Hedge funds
5 28 (7.39%) Pricing Data
6 11 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.90%) Market Risk
7 10 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.64%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.32%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (1.32%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.93%) Linux
2 24 (6.33%) Unix
3 17 (4.49%) Windows
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (54.35%) Agile
2 137 (36.15%) Software Engineering
3 120 (31.66%) Investment Management
4 102 (26.91%) Asset Management
5 63 (16.62%) Risk Management
6 55 (14.51%) Data Management
6 55 (14.51%) Fintech
7 53 (13.98%) Low Latency
8 52 (13.72%) DevOps
8 52 (13.72%) Migration
9 44 (11.61%) Data Governance
9 44 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (11.08%) Analytics
10 42 (11.08%) Electronic Trading
10 42 (11.08%) Regulatory Compliance
10 42 (11.08%) Roadmaps
11 37 (9.76%) CI/CD
12 33 (8.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (7.92%) Order Management
14 27 (7.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 149 (39.31%) Python
2 142 (37.47%) Java
3 123 (32.45%) JavaScript
4 108 (28.50%) TypeScript
5 77 (20.32%) SQL
6 65 (17.15%) C#
7 51 (13.46%) C++
8 13 (3.43%) Rust
9 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.06%) Ruby
11 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.53%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (5.80%) Degree
2 16 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.06%) CCNA
3 4 (1.06%) CCNP
3 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.65%) MiFID
2 10 (2.64%) Basel III
3 8 (2.11%) EMIR
4 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.85%) QA
5 4 (1.06%) GDPR
6 3 (0.79%) Basel II
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.53%) GAAP
7 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (6.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
2 1 (0.26%) iptables
2 1 (0.26%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 23 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (1.32%) Control-M
4 4 (1.06%) Kibana
4 4 (1.06%) logstash
4 4 (1.06%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Cacti
7 1 (0.26%) Graylog
7 1 (0.26%) Nagios
7 1 (0.26%) Netcool
7 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (8.71%) Oracle
2 20 (5.28%) Murex
3 15 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.17%) Bloomberg
5 9 (2.37%) Solace
5 9 (2.37%) Sybase
6 8 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.85%) Reuters
8 6 (1.58%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.32%) IBM
9 5 (1.32%) Nokia
9 5 (1.32%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
10 4 (1.06%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.06%) Splunk
10 4 (1.06%) Wallstreet Suite
11 3 (0.79%) Calypso
11 3 (0.79%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.79%) Tradeweb