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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 189 175
Rank change year-on-year -187 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 248 386 520
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.48% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 4.25% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 309 413
10th Percentile £450 £510 £575
25th Percentile £538 £658 £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £919 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 - £898
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 27
Median hourly rate £58.00 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.71% +25.00% -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £58.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.64% -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 14,462 9,081 11,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.93% 34.80% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,975 5,799 7,386
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 788 432 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.59 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +57.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.90 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.00% +60.20%

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 July 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 July 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 -115 221 £725 -6.45% 83
North of England -78 9 £875 +77.85% 3
Midlands -59 7 £563 +103.62% 6
East Midlands -9 6 £550 - 2
South West -25 4 £875 +133.33%
North East - 4 £875 -
North West -53 3 £875 +77.85% 3
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
South East -60 2 £613 +48.94% 16
East of England -22 1 - - 1
West Midlands -65 1 £875 +216.74% 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 6 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 4 (1.61%) IIS
4 2 (0.81%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Orchestrade
2 5 (2.02%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.61%) Summit
4 3 (1.21%) Findur
5 2 (0.81%) Actimize
5 2 (0.81%) Cognos Controller
5 2 (0.81%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.81%) Global One
5 2 (0.81%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.81%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.81%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.40%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.06%) Azure
2 14 (5.65%) AWS
3 13 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.82%) Power Automate
5 7 (2.82%) PowerApps
6 6 (2.42%) SaaS
7 5 (2.02%) GCP
8 4 (1.61%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.61%) Serverless
9 3 (1.21%) npm
9 3 (1.21%) Yarn
10 2 (0.81%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.81%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.44%) Multicast
2 3 (1.21%) VPN
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.81%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.05%) KDB
2 11 (4.44%) Power BI
3 7 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.82%) Tableau
4 6 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.02%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.21%) Big Data
7 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.21%) Redis
7 3 (1.21%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.81%) Metadata
8 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (7.66%) JIRA
2 8 (3.23%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.61%) webpack
4 3 (1.21%) GitLab
4 3 (1.21%) Gradle
4 3 (1.21%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.81%) JUnit
5 2 (0.81%) Postman
5 2 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.81%) Selenium
5 2 (0.81%) Storybook
5 2 (0.81%) TestNG
5 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) Newman
6 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 161 (64.92%) Finance
2 128 (51.61%) Banking
3 109 (43.95%) Front Office
4 86 (34.68%) Investment Banking
5 57 (22.98%) Social Skills
6 39 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.65%) Back Office
8 12 (4.84%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.82%) Legal
10 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Law
11 4 (1.61%) Billing
11 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.21%) Retail
13 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (51.21%) Developer
2 63 (25.40%) Java Developer
3 61 (24.60%) Senior
4 48 (19.35%) Analyst
5 45 (18.15%) Senior Developer
6 38 (15.32%) Business Analyst
7 34 (13.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (13.31%) React Developer
9 31 (12.50%) UI Developer
10 29 (11.69%) Senior React Developer
11 28 (11.29%) Senior UI Developer
12 23 (9.27%) C# Developer
13 12 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.23%) Front Office Developer
16 7 (2.82%) Consultant
16 7 (2.82%) Project Manager
16 7 (2.82%) Python Developer
16 7 (2.82%) Technical Analyst
16 7 (2.82%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.18%) React
2 36 (14.52%) Redux
3 22 (8.87%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (6.05%) Kafka
4 15 (6.05%) Spring
5 13 (5.24%) .NET
6 11 (4.44%) Middleware
7 9 (3.63%) CSS
8 8 (3.23%) RxJava
8 8 (3.23%) XML
9 7 (2.82%) Ultra Messaging
10 6 (2.42%) HTML
10 6 (2.42%) OpenFin
10 6 (2.42%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.42%) Web Services
11 5 (2.02%) Electron
11 5 (2.02%) REST
12 3 (1.21%) HTML5
12 3 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.21%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.65%) Fixed Income
2 58 (23.39%) Derivative
3 53 (21.37%) Equities
4 32 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (6.45%) Algorithms
6 16 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.63%) OTC Derivatives
7 9 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.82%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.42%) Market Risk
11 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.61%) Exotic Derivative
12 4 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.21%) Swaptions
13 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.66%) Linux
2 13 (5.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.05%) Low Latency
2 75 (30.24%) Electronic Trading
3 55 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (20.97%) Agile
5 42 (16.94%) CI/CD
6 38 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (11.29%) AI
8 27 (10.89%) Microservices
8 27 (10.89%) Software Engineering
8 27 (10.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 26 (10.48%) Analytics
9 26 (10.48%) Event-Driven
10 23 (9.27%) Multithreading
10 23 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (8.87%) Computer Science
11 22 (8.87%) DevOps
12 19 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (7.26%) Risk Management
13 18 (7.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.32%) Java
2 60 (24.19%) C#
3 54 (21.77%) TypeScript
4 43 (17.34%) JavaScript
5 41 (16.53%) SQL
6 35 (14.11%) Python
7 16 (6.45%) C++
8 5 (2.02%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.61%) VBA
10 3 (1.21%) Scala
11 2 (0.81%) Perl
11 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) ABAP
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (10.08%) Degree
2 9 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.82%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.82%) PhD
5 6 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) ACCA
6 2 (0.81%) CIMA
6 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.84%) QA
2 8 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.42%) IFRS
4 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) SLA
6 3 (1.21%) EMIR
6 3 (1.21%) GAAP
6 3 (1.21%) MiFID
7 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.02%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.21%) Ansible
3 3 (1.21%) Control-M
3 3 (1.21%) Grafana
4 2 (0.81%) Kibana
4 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (11.69%) Murex
2 15 (6.05%) Bloomberg
3 12 (4.84%) Solace
4 11 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.63%) Oracle
6 8 (3.23%) IBM
7 5 (2.02%) SAP
8 3 (1.21%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.81%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.81%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (0.81%) Calypso
9 2 (0.81%) Cognos
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.81%) Sybase
9 2 (0.81%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.40%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.40%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) TSYS