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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 190 271
Rank change year-on-year -113 +81 -88
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 250 385 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.33% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 4.12% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 329 272
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £563 £638 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £856 £888 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 11,210 9,355 11,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.60% 32.39% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,064 5,674 8,056
10th Percentile £281 £279 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 277 458
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.59 £20.89
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -60 246 £750 -6.25% 45
Yorkshire -50 2 £575 +43.21%
North of England -50 2 £575 +25.00% 1
East of England - 2 £438 - 3
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 35 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (9.60%) Apache
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.00%) Confluence
5 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Aladdin
2 6 (2.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.60%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Findur
5 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.40%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.40%) RMDS
5 1 (0.40%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.60%) AWS
2 35 (14.00%) dbt
3 26 (10.40%) Azure
4 24 (9.60%) Snowflake
5 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.60%) GCP
7 10 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.60%) npm
13 4 (1.60%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.40%) Multicast
2 4 (1.60%) Firewall
3 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.80%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.00%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (14.00%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (14.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (14.00%) Dremio
2 24 (9.60%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (9.60%) Data Lake
3 19 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.60%) KDB
5 13 (5.20%) Kdb+
6 12 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.20%) Power BI
8 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.60%) Tableau
10 3 (1.20%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.20%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.80%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.40%) Git
2 11 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.20%) JIRA
4 6 (2.40%) GCC
4 6 (2.40%) GDB
5 5 (2.00%) Gradle
6 4 (1.60%) webpack
7 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.80%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) Subversion
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 177 (70.80%) Finance
2 137 (54.80%) Banking
3 133 (53.20%) Front Office
4 92 (36.80%) Social Skills
5 77 (30.80%) Investment Banking
6 26 (10.40%) Financial Institution
7 25 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.20%) Back Office
9 6 (2.40%) Law
10 5 (2.00%) International Banking
10 5 (2.00%) Legal
11 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 124 (49.60%) Developer
2 50 (20.00%) Senior
3 42 (16.80%) Software Engineer
4 38 (15.20%) Python Developer
5 35 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) Python Engineer
5 35 (14.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (12.00%) Java Developer
7 29 (11.60%) Analyst
7 29 (11.60%) Java Engineer
8 28 (11.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 26 (10.40%) Business Analyst
10 25 (10.00%) AWS Developer
10 25 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 25 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (9.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.40%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.20%) NumPy
1 58 (23.20%) Pandas
2 49 (19.60%) SciPy
3 40 (16.00%) FIX Protocol
4 37 (14.80%) React
5 25 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 25 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (10.00%) Vue
6 24 (9.60%) gRPC
7 20 (8.00%) REST
8 19 (7.60%) .NET
9 14 (5.60%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.60%) Flask
9 14 (5.60%) Polars
10 11 (4.40%) Node.js
11 10 (4.00%) CSS
12 9 (3.60%) COM
12 9 (3.60%) HTML
13 8 (3.20%) .NET Framework
13 8 (3.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.00%) Fixed Income
2 76 (30.40%) Equities
3 73 (29.20%) Derivative
4 60 (24.00%) Hedge funds
5 24 (9.60%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.80%) Algorithms
7 18 (7.20%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (4.40%) Data Structures
10 9 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
10 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.20%) Market Risk
15 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.40%) Linux
2 22 (8.80%) Unix
3 13 (5.20%) Windows
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.60%) Agile
2 70 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 61 (24.40%) Low Latency
4 52 (20.80%) Risk Management
5 49 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (18.00%) Electronic Trading
7 44 (17.60%) Analytics
8 39 (15.60%) Asset Management
8 39 (15.60%) Investment Management
8 39 (15.60%) Mathematics
9 32 (12.80%) CI/CD
10 30 (12.00%) DevOps
10 30 (12.00%) Multithreading
11 24 (9.60%) Data Analysis
12 23 (9.20%) Clean Code
13 22 (8.80%) Scrum
14 21 (8.40%) Computer Science
15 20 (8.00%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.00%) Order Management
15 20 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (46.40%) Python
2 98 (39.20%) Java
3 66 (26.40%) JavaScript
4 59 (23.60%) SQL
5 47 (18.80%) C++
6 44 (17.60%) C#
7 41 (16.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.60%) Rust
9 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.80%) VBA
11 3 (1.20%) Bash
12 2 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (9.60%) Degree
2 10 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.40%) PhD
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.80%) PMP
5 2 (0.80%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.40%) ACCA
6 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) CBAP
6 1 (0.40%) CFA
6 1 (0.40%) CIMA
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.80%) QA
2 9 (3.60%) MiFID
3 6 (2.40%) EMIR
4 5 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) Basel III
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (4.00%) Ansible
4 6 (2.40%) Kibana
4 6 (2.40%) logstash
5 4 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.60%) Terraform
6 3 (1.20%) BladeLogic
6 3 (1.20%) Grafana
6 3 (1.20%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.40%) Murex
2 16 (6.40%) Solace
3 13 (5.20%) Oracle
4 9 (3.60%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.40%) Sophis
5 6 (2.40%) TIBCO
6 4 (1.60%) Portware
6 4 (1.60%) Splunk
6 4 (1.60%) Tradeweb
7 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.20%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.20%) Reuters
8 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.80%) Calypso
8 2 (0.80%) CQG
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) TOWER Software