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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 206 313
Rank change year-on-year -139 +107 -146
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 222 333 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.28% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 3.84% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 278 206
10th Percentile £463 £550 £500
25th Percentile £525 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +7.18% -9.68%
75th Percentile £863 £892 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £925
UK median daily rate £733 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -2.33% +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 11,685 8,664 11,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.24% 33.25% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,461 5,273 7,735
10th Percentile £275 £275 £255
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £548 £549
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -0.18% -4.52%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 246 747
10th Percentile £15.35 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.25 £16.96
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.02 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +20.06% +44.54%
75th Percentile £64.69 £66.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.31
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.33% +44.68%

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 13 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 13 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 -74 218 £750 -3.23% 70
North of England -63 2 £575 +37.72% 1
Yorkshire -63 2 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -55 1 - - 1
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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.60%) Apache
2 8 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.90%) Summit
4 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.45%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.45%) RMDS
4 1 (0.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 30 (13.51%) AWS
2 22 (9.91%) Azure
3 20 (9.01%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.41%) dbt
4 12 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 11 (4.95%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.60%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.15%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.15%) GCP
9 6 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.25%) SaaS
11 4 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.35%) GitHub
12 3 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.35%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) Multicast
2 2 (0.90%) RTMP
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) Intranet
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.21%) KDB
1 16 (7.21%) Kdb+
2 15 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.41%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (5.41%) Dremio
3 12 (5.41%) Power BI
4 8 (3.60%) Apache Ignite
4 8 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.70%) Tick Data
6 4 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.80%) Tableau
7 3 (1.35%) Data Mart
7 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.90%) Big Data
8 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (5.86%) Git
2 12 (5.41%) JIRA
3 6 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.35%) GCC
4 3 (1.35%) GDB
4 3 (1.35%) Gradle
4 3 (1.35%) webpack
5 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Maven
5 1 (0.45%) NUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Subversion
5 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 152 (68.47%) Finance
2 110 (49.55%) Front Office
3 103 (46.40%) Banking
4 77 (34.68%) Social Skills
5 47 (21.17%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (9.91%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.05%) Back Office
9 7 (3.15%) Law
10 6 (2.70%) Legal
11 5 (2.25%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.90%) International Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (52.70%) Developer
2 37 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 35 (15.77%) Senior
4 32 (14.41%) Analyst
5 30 (13.51%) Business Analyst
6 23 (10.36%) Python Developer
7 16 (7.21%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (5.41%) AWS Developer
9 12 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Java Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Python Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
10 10 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.50%) KDB Developer
10 10 (4.50%) Lead
10 10 (4.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 9 (4.05%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.51%) FIX Protocol
2 29 (13.06%) NumPy
2 29 (13.06%) Pandas
3 22 (9.91%) React
4 20 (9.01%) SciPy
5 15 (6.76%) REST
6 13 (5.86%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.41%) CSS
7 12 (5.41%) Vue
8 11 (4.95%) .NET
9 10 (4.50%) HTML
10 9 (4.05%) COM
10 9 (4.05%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (3.60%) FastAPI
11 8 (3.60%) Flask
11 8 (3.60%) gRPC
11 8 (3.60%) Polars
12 6 (2.70%) Dask
13 5 (2.25%) XML
14 4 (1.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.13%) Equities
2 55 (24.77%) Fixed Income
3 51 (22.97%) Derivative
4 35 (15.77%) Hedge funds
5 24 (10.81%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.66%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (5.86%) Data Structures
8 11 (4.95%) Cloud Native
9 10 (4.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (3.60%) Market Risk
10 8 (3.60%) Pricing Data
10 8 (3.60%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.15%) Credit Risk
11 7 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.80%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.12%) Linux
2 20 (9.01%) Unix
3 10 (4.50%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.77%) Low Latency
2 53 (23.87%) Agile
2 53 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (19.82%) Analytics
3 44 (19.82%) Risk Management
4 38 (17.12%) Mathematics
5 36 (16.22%) Software Engineering
6 31 (13.96%) Electronic Trading
7 26 (11.71%) CI/CD
7 26 (11.71%) Multithreading
7 26 (11.71%) Scrum
8 25 (11.26%) Data Analysis
9 23 (10.36%) Computer Science
10 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (8.11%) AI
11 18 (8.11%) Data Protection
11 18 (8.11%) DevOps
12 17 (7.66%) Asset Management
12 17 (7.66%) Migration
12 17 (7.66%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.49%) Java
2 74 (33.33%) Python
3 48 (21.62%) SQL
4 37 (16.67%) C++
5 35 (15.77%) C#
6 34 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 21 (9.46%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.41%) VBA
9 8 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.60%) Rust
10 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Perl
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (10.81%) Degree
2 10 (4.50%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.70%) PhD
4 4 (1.80%) PMP
5 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.45%) CBAP
7 1 (0.45%) CFA
7 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.21%) QA
2 5 (2.25%) Basel III
2 5 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.80%) MiFID
4 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.35%) EMIR
4 3 (1.35%) GAAP
4 3 (1.35%) IFRS
5 2 (0.90%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.60%) Ansible
3 6 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.35%) Terraform
5 2 (0.90%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) logstash
5 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.45%) Control-M
6 1 (0.45%) Grafana
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.56%) Murex
3 14 (6.31%) Oracle
4 8 (3.60%) Solace
5 5 (2.25%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.25%) Sophis
6 4 (1.80%) SAP
6 4 (1.80%) Workday
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.35%) Splunk
7 3 (1.35%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.90%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.90%) Charles River
8 2 (0.90%) Citrix
8 2 (0.90%) Informatica
8 2 (0.90%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.90%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.45%) Zopa