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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 160 243
Rank change year-on-year -227 +83 -57
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 206 398 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.64% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 4.79% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 340 282
10th Percentile £450 £575 £550
25th Percentile £513 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £763
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £849 £875 £875
90th Percentile £925 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.43% +8.95%
UK median hourly rate - £41.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -41.43% +8.95%

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 13,088 8,307 11,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.14% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,292 5,439 7,516
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -129 196 £667 -13.94% 52
North of England -83 5 £413 -16.16% 1
Yorkshire -56 4 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -71 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North West -46 1 £250 -56.52% 1
South East -51 1 - - 18
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 8 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) IIS
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.46%) Findur
3 3 (1.46%) Summit
4 2 (0.97%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.97%) Global One
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.97%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.97%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.49%) Actimize
5 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.49%) Endur
5 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.49%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.49%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.17%) Azure
2 20 (9.71%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.83%) AWS
4 10 (4.85%) PowerApps
5 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.88%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.43%) SaaS
9 4 (1.94%) GCP
9 4 (1.94%) npm
9 4 (1.94%) Yarn
10 3 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.97%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.97%) OCI
11 2 (0.97%) Serverless
12 1 (0.49%) Azure AI
12 1 (0.49%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) Multicast
2 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.97%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) RTMP
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.28%) KDB
2 14 (6.80%) Power BI
3 9 (4.37%) Tableau
4 8 (3.88%) Kdb+
5 7 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.43%) Tick Data
7 4 (1.94%) Big Data
7 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.46%) Metadata
8 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.97%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.97%) Redis
9 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.80%) JIRA
2 7 (3.40%) Git
3 6 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.43%) webpack
5 3 (1.46%) Gradle
5 3 (1.46%) Maven
6 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.97%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) JUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Postman
6 2 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.97%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 2 (0.97%) TestNG
7 1 (0.49%) Gatling
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) Newman
7 1 (0.49%) NUnit
7 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 135 (65.53%) Finance
2 90 (43.69%) Banking
3 83 (40.29%) Front Office
4 56 (27.18%) Social Skills
5 43 (20.87%) Investment Banking
6 33 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.25%) Back Office
8 14 (6.80%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.88%) Legal
10 4 (1.94%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.94%) Law
10 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.97%) Billing
12 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (46.12%) Developer
2 41 (19.90%) Java Developer
3 36 (17.48%) Analyst
4 32 (15.53%) Business Analyst
4 32 (15.53%) Senior
5 14 (6.80%) Senior Developer
6 12 (5.83%) C# Developer
7 10 (4.85%) FX Business Analyst
8 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Lead
9 8 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.40%) KDB Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.91%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
12 5 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.62%) FIX Protocol
2 23 (11.17%) React
3 11 (5.34%) CSS
4 10 (4.85%) Kafka
4 10 (4.85%) Redux
5 9 (4.37%) .NET
5 9 (4.37%) REST
5 9 (4.37%) Spring
6 8 (3.88%) HTML
7 7 (3.40%) XML
8 6 (2.91%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.43%) COM
9 5 (2.43%) Electron
9 5 (2.43%) Middleware
9 5 (2.43%) NumPy
9 5 (2.43%) OpenFin
9 5 (2.43%) Pandas
10 3 (1.46%) Dask
10 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.93%) Fixed Income
2 37 (17.96%) Derivative
3 32 (15.53%) Equities
4 20 (9.71%) Algorithms
4 20 (9.71%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.34%) Hedge funds
7 10 (4.85%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.85%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.88%) Market Risk
9 7 (3.40%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.43%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.74%) Linux
1 18 (8.74%) Unix
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.18%) Low Latency
2 51 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (21.84%) Agile
4 39 (18.93%) Electronic Trading
5 29 (14.08%) Analytics
5 29 (14.08%) CI/CD
6 27 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (13.11%) Risk Management
7 24 (11.65%) AI
8 22 (10.68%) Scrum
9 21 (10.19%) Data Analysis
9 21 (10.19%) Data Protection
9 21 (10.19%) Multithreading
9 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (9.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (8.74%) Computer Science
11 18 (8.74%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.25%) User Experience
13 16 (7.77%) DevOps
13 16 (7.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 73 (35.44%) Java
2 41 (19.90%) SQL
3 33 (16.02%) C#
3 33 (16.02%) Python
4 22 (10.68%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.28%) C++
7 6 (2.91%) VBA
8 4 (1.94%) Perl
8 4 (1.94%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.94%) Scala
9 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (6.80%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.94%) PMP
5 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) PhD
5 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.97%) ACCA
6 2 (0.97%) CIMA
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) CBAP
7 1 (0.49%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.74%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.43%) Basel III
5 4 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.46%) EMIR
6 3 (1.46%) GAAP
6 3 (1.46%) IFRS
6 3 (1.46%) MiFID
6 3 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.97%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.49%) GDPR
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.49%) NIST
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.43%) Ansible
1 5 (2.43%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (1.94%) Control-M
3 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.19%) Murex
2 15 (7.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.34%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.88%) Oracle
4 8 (3.88%) Solace
5 6 (2.91%) SAP
6 5 (2.43%) IBM
7 4 (1.94%) Workday
8 3 (1.46%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.46%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.97%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.97%) Calypso
9 2 (0.97%) Charles River
9 2 (0.97%) Citrix
9 2 (0.97%) Informatica
9 2 (0.97%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.97%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.97%) Sybase
9 2 (0.97%) Tradeweb