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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 208 145
Rank change year-on-year -207 -63 +64
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 232 359 568
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.29% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 3.63% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 275 465
10th Percentile £480 £505 £555
25th Percentile £563 £635 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +11.30%
75th Percentile £938 £838 £888
90th Percentile - £875 £900
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 27
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £64.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £58.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.48% -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 15,429 9,884 10,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.61% 35.64% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 6,239 6,564
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 500 510
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.72 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% -34.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +6.27%

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 23 August 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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 August 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 -147 205 £725 -3.33% 42
North of England -61 11 £875 +64.01% 5
Midlands -45 5 £563 +103.62% 2
North West -48 5 £563 +5.44% 3
South West - 5 £875 - 4
East Midlands -12 4 £550 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -39 2 - - 2
South East - 2 £613 - 14
East of England -19 1 - -
West Midlands -53 1 £875 +216.74% 2
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 5 (2.16%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) IIS
3 2 (0.86%) JBoss
3 2 (0.86%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.29%) Findur
2 3 (1.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (1.29%) Summit
3 2 (0.86%) Actimize
3 2 (0.86%) Cognos Controller
3 2 (0.86%) Endur
3 2 (0.86%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.86%) Global One
3 2 (0.86%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.86%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.86%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.86%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.43%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.60%) AWS
1 13 (5.60%) Azure
2 8 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 6 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (1.72%) GCP
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
5 3 (1.29%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.29%) SaaS
5 3 (1.29%) Serverless
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (0.86%) Azure AI
6 2 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (0.86%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.43%) Dagster
7 1 (0.43%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.33%) Multicast
2 4 (1.72%) VLAN
2 4 (1.72%) VPN
2 4 (1.72%) WAN
3 2 (0.86%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.17%) KDB
2 7 (3.02%) Power BI
3 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.59%) Tableau
4 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Big Data
7 2 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.86%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.86%) Redis
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.43%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.43%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (6.47%) JIRA
2 8 (3.45%) Git
3 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.86%) Gradle
4 2 (0.86%) Maven
4 2 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.86%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.86%) Selenium
4 2 (0.86%) Storybook
4 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Gatling
5 1 (0.43%) JMeter
5 1 (0.43%) JUnit
5 1 (0.43%) Newman
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.43%) TestNG
5 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 145 (62.50%) Finance
2 124 (53.45%) Banking
3 117 (50.43%) Front Office
4 82 (35.34%) Investment Banking
5 59 (25.43%) Social Skills
6 39 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.03%) Financial Institution
8 13 (5.60%) Back Office
9 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Legal
10 5 (2.16%) Law
11 4 (1.72%) Billing
12 3 (1.29%) French Language
12 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (45.26%) Developer
2 58 (25.00%) Senior
3 53 (22.84%) Java Developer
4 45 (19.40%) Analyst
5 44 (18.97%) Senior Developer
6 36 (15.52%) Business Analyst
7 35 (15.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 32 (13.79%) React Developer
9 30 (12.93%) UI Developer
10 28 (12.07%) Senior React Developer
11 27 (11.64%) Senior UI Developer
12 22 (9.48%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Architect
14 8 (3.45%) Front Office Developer
14 8 (3.45%) Project Manager
15 7 (3.02%) Python Developer
16 6 (2.59%) Banking Analyst
16 6 (2.59%) Consultant
16 6 (2.59%) Quantitative Developer
16 6 (2.59%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.28%) React
2 36 (15.52%) Redux
3 19 (8.19%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (7.76%) Kafka
5 15 (6.47%) Spring
6 13 (5.60%) .NET
7 12 (5.17%) Middleware
8 8 (3.45%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.02%) REST
9 7 (3.02%) RxJava
9 7 (3.02%) Ultra Messaging
9 7 (3.02%) XML
10 5 (2.16%) OpenFin
10 5 (2.16%) Web Services
10 5 (2.16%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.72%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.72%) Electron
11 4 (1.72%) Next.js
12 3 (1.29%) CSS
12 3 (1.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (34.05%) Fixed Income
2 65 (28.02%) Derivative
3 52 (22.41%) Equities
4 33 (14.22%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (8.19%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (4.31%) OTC Derivatives
8 8 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.45%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.02%) Data Centre
9 7 (3.02%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.59%) Exotic Derivative
10 6 (2.59%) Market Risk
11 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.72%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.60%) Linux
2 9 (3.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.05%) Low Latency
2 72 (31.03%) Electronic Trading
3 53 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (21.12%) Agile
5 41 (17.67%) CI/CD
6 34 (14.66%) Software Engineering
7 30 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (12.50%) Analytics
9 28 (12.07%) AI
9 28 (12.07%) Event-Driven
9 28 (12.07%) Microservices
9 28 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (11.21%) Validation
11 25 (10.78%) Computer Science
11 25 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (10.34%) Multithreading
13 22 (9.48%) Requirements Gathering
14 20 (8.62%) DevOps
15 19 (8.19%) Risk Management
16 18 (7.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.22%) Java
2 60 (25.86%) C#
3 53 (22.84%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.24%) SQL
5 38 (16.38%) JavaScript
5 38 (16.38%) Python
6 19 (8.19%) C++
7 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.72%) VBA
9 2 (0.86%) Perl
9 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.86%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) ABAP
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (12.93%) Degree
2 12 (5.17%) Master's Degree
3 11 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.31%) PhD
5 8 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) ACCA
7 3 (1.29%) CIMA
7 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.86%) CCNA
8 2 (0.86%) CCNP
8 2 (0.86%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.43%) CCIE
9 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.59%) Accessibility
1 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.59%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) IFRS
3 4 (1.72%) EMIR
3 4 (1.72%) MiFID
4 3 (1.29%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) GAAP
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (4.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.59%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (1.29%) Control-M
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (12.93%) Murex
2 18 (7.76%) Bloomberg
3 14 (6.03%) Solace
4 9 (3.88%) IBM
5 8 (3.45%) Oracle
6 5 (2.16%) Arista
6 5 (2.16%) Cisco
6 5 (2.16%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.16%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) Aruba
7 4 (1.72%) Calypso
7 4 (1.72%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.29%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.86%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (0.86%) Cognos
9 2 (0.86%) FIS
9 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.86%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.86%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.86%) Tradeweb
53 Foreign Exchange (FX) jobs in England