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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 176 194
Rank change year-on-year -183 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 244 374 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.53% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 4.44% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 312 354
10th Percentile £450 £564 £580
25th Percentile £525 £672 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £888 £875 £888
90th Percentile £938 £938 £896
UK median daily rate £720 £768 £800
% change year-on-year -6.19% -4.06% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 22
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 13,837 8,429 11,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.49% 34.45% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 5,444 7,379
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 741 369 848
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £85.50 £82.68 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.97 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.18% -5.71% +56.70%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -120 219 £720 -7.10% 56
North of England -84 8 £875 +64.01% 6
Midlands -62 7 £563 +131.96% 1
East Midlands -22 6 £550 - 1
South West -22 4 £875 +133.33% 3
North West -53 3 £875 +64.01% 5
North East - 3 £875 -
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 1
South East -59 2 £613 +48.94% 13
West Midlands -61 1 £875 +260.82%
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 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.64%) Confluence
2 4 (1.64%) IIS
3 2 (0.82%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 6 (2.46%) Orchestrade
2 5 (2.05%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.23%) Findur
4 2 (0.82%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.82%) Global One
4 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.82%) Summit
4 2 (0.82%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.02%) Azure
2 16 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 14 (5.74%) AWS
4 9 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.87%) Power Automate
5 7 (2.87%) PowerApps
5 7 (2.87%) SaaS
6 5 (2.05%) GCP
7 4 (1.64%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.64%) Serverless
8 3 (1.23%) npm
8 3 (1.23%) Yarn
9 2 (0.82%) Azure AI
9 2 (0.82%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.82%) OCI
9 2 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.28%) Multicast
2 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.82%) RTMP
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.74%) KDB
1 14 (5.74%) Power BI
2 9 (3.69%) Tableau
3 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.64%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.23%) Big Data
6 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.23%) Redis
6 3 (1.23%) Tick Data
7 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.82%) Metadata
7 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.41%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (7.38%) JIRA
2 8 (3.28%) Git
3 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.64%) webpack
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Gradle
4 3 (1.23%) Maven
5 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.82%) JUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Postman
5 2 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) TestNG
5 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Gatling
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) Newman
6 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 156 (63.93%) Finance
2 118 (48.36%) Banking
3 106 (43.44%) Front Office
4 81 (33.20%) Investment Banking
5 50 (20.49%) Social Skills
6 37 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.15%) Back Office
8 11 (4.51%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.28%) Legal
10 4 (1.64%) Billing
10 4 (1.64%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.64%) Law
10 4 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Retail
12 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.41%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 128 (52.46%) Developer
2 63 (25.82%) Java Developer
3 61 (25.00%) Senior
4 45 (18.44%) Analyst
5 43 (17.62%) Senior Developer
6 38 (15.57%) Business Analyst
7 32 (13.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (12.30%) React Developer
9 28 (11.48%) UI Developer
10 27 (11.07%) Senior React Developer
11 26 (10.66%) Senior UI Developer
12 22 (9.02%) C# Developer
13 11 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.28%) Quantitative Developer
15 8 (3.28%) Technical Analyst
15 8 (3.28%) Technical Business Analyst
16 7 (2.87%) Front Office Developer
16 7 (2.87%) FX Business Analyst
16 7 (2.87%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.90%) React
2 33 (13.52%) Redux
3 24 (9.84%) FIX Protocol
4 13 (5.33%) .NET
4 13 (5.33%) Kafka
4 13 (5.33%) Spring
5 9 (3.69%) XML
6 8 (3.28%) CSS
6 8 (3.28%) Middleware
7 7 (2.87%) Ultra Messaging
8 6 (2.46%) RxJava
8 6 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.46%) Web Services
9 5 (2.05%) Electron
9 5 (2.05%) HTML
9 5 (2.05%) OpenFin
9 5 (2.05%) REST
10 3 (1.23%) JSON
10 3 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.82%) FIXML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (28.69%) Fixed Income
2 52 (21.31%) Derivative
2 52 (21.31%) Equities
3 30 (12.30%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (8.20%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (7.38%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.69%) Market Risk
7 9 (3.69%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.28%) OTC Derivatives
9 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.46%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.64%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.82%) Eurex
13 2 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.56%) Linux
2 9 (3.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.56%) Low Latency
2 67 (27.46%) Electronic Trading
3 53 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.90%) Agile
5 40 (16.39%) CI/CD
6 33 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (10.66%) AI
8 25 (10.25%) Analytics
8 25 (10.25%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.25%) User Acceptance Testing
9 24 (9.84%) Microservices
9 24 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (9.43%) Multithreading
11 22 (9.02%) Event-Driven
12 21 (8.61%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.61%) Data Protection
13 19 (7.79%) Validation
14 18 (7.38%) DevOps
15 17 (6.97%) Requirements Gathering
15 17 (6.97%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (40.57%) Java
2 64 (26.23%) C#
3 50 (20.49%) TypeScript
4 42 (17.21%) SQL
5 40 (16.39%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.11%) Python
7 20 (8.20%) C++
8 5 (2.05%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.64%) Scala
10 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.82%) Perl
12 1 (0.41%) ABAP
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (8.61%) Degree
2 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.87%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.46%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.05%) PhD
6 4 (1.64%) PMP
7 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.82%) ACCA
8 2 (0.82%) CIMA
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) CBAP
9 1 (0.41%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.92%) QA
2 8 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.87%) IFRS
4 6 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.05%) Basel III
5 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.64%) GAAP
7 3 (1.23%) EMIR
7 3 (1.23%) MiFID
7 3 (1.23%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.41%) GDPR
9 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.41%) NIST
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (4.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.64%) Control-M
3 3 (1.23%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Grafana
3 3 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.82%) Kibana
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (9.84%) Murex
2 12 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.92%) Oracle
3 11 (4.51%) Bloomberg
4 9 (3.69%) SAP
4 9 (3.69%) Solace
5 7 (2.87%) IBM
6 4 (1.64%) Workday
7 3 (1.23%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.82%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.82%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.82%) Calypso
8 2 (0.82%) Charles River
8 2 (0.82%) Citrix
8 2 (0.82%) Informatica
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.82%) Sybase
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk
9 1 (0.41%) TSYS