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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 199 326
Rank change year-on-year -141 +127 -154
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 218 343 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.31% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 3.95% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 289 208
10th Percentile £463 £550 £500
25th Percentile £525 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £863 £888 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
UK median daily rate £738 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -1.67% +7.14% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
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 11,538 8,682 11,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 33.05% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,382 5,235 7,845
10th Percentile £276 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £673 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 245 740
10th Percentile £15.42 £18.51 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.58 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.75 £37.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +14.16% +44.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.84 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -17.14% +8.98% +44.05%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -83 214 £750 -2.28% 85
Yorkshire -56 2 £575 +43.21%
North of England -59 2 £575 +37.72% 4
Midlands -54 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
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 12 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.67%) Apache
3 6 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.75%) Confluence
3 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.92%) Summit
4 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.46%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.46%) RMDS
4 1 (0.46%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.68%) AWS
2 20 (9.17%) Azure
3 18 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.50%) dbt
5 10 (4.59%) PowerApps
6 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.13%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.67%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.21%) GCP
8 7 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.83%) GitHub
10 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.83%) SaaS
11 3 (1.38%) npm
11 3 (1.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) Multicast
2 2 (0.92%) RTMP
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.34%) KDB
1 16 (7.34%) Kdb+
2 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.50%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (5.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (5.50%) Dremio
4 11 (5.05%) Power BI
5 8 (3.67%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (3.67%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.75%) Tick Data
7 4 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 3 (1.38%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.92%) Big Data
9 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.92%) Redis
9 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.42%) Git
2 11 (5.05%) JIRA
3 6 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.38%) GCC
4 3 (1.38%) GDB
4 3 (1.38%) Gradle
4 3 (1.38%) webpack
5 2 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.46%) JUnit
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) Subversion
6 1 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 149 (68.35%) Finance
2 110 (50.46%) Front Office
3 102 (46.79%) Banking
4 76 (34.86%) Social Skills
5 48 (22.02%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (10.55%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.13%) Back Office
9 7 (3.21%) Law
10 6 (2.75%) Legal
11 5 (2.29%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.92%) International Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.92%) Retail
12 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 113 (51.83%) Developer
2 36 (16.51%) Java Developer
3 33 (15.14%) Senior
4 31 (14.22%) Analyst
5 29 (13.30%) Business Analyst
6 24 (11.01%) Python Developer
7 17 (7.80%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.96%) AWS Developer
8 13 (5.96%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Java Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Python Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Python Software Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) KDB Developer
10 10 (4.59%) Lead
10 10 (4.59%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.22%) FIX Protocol
2 30 (13.76%) NumPy
2 30 (13.76%) Pandas
3 22 (10.09%) React
4 21 (9.63%) SciPy
5 15 (6.88%) REST
6 14 (6.42%) AngularJS
7 13 (5.96%) Vue
8 11 (5.05%) .NET
8 11 (5.05%) CSS
9 9 (4.13%) COM
9 9 (4.13%) FastAPI
9 9 (4.13%) Flask
9 9 (4.13%) HTML
9 9 (4.13%) Polars
9 9 (4.13%) Protocol Buffers
10 8 (3.67%) gRPC
11 6 (2.75%) Dask
12 5 (2.29%) XML
13 4 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.61%) Equities
2 54 (24.77%) Fixed Income
3 51 (23.39%) Derivative
4 35 (16.06%) Hedge funds
5 24 (11.01%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.80%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (5.96%) Data Structures
8 12 (5.50%) Cloud Native
9 10 (4.59%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.67%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (3.67%) Pricing Data
10 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.21%) Credit Risk
11 7 (3.21%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.35%) Linux
2 20 (9.17%) Unix
3 10 (4.59%) Windows
4 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.69%) Low Latency
2 54 (24.77%) Agile
3 50 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (20.18%) Analytics
4 44 (20.18%) Risk Management
5 39 (17.89%) Mathematics
6 37 (16.97%) Software Engineering
7 31 (14.22%) Electronic Trading
8 27 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.39%) Multithreading
9 26 (11.93%) Scrum
10 25 (11.47%) Data Analysis
11 23 (10.55%) Computer Science
12 22 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.72%) DevOps
14 18 (8.26%) Data Protection
15 17 (7.80%) AI
15 17 (7.80%) Asset Management
15 17 (7.80%) Migration
15 17 (7.80%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.16%) Java
2 75 (34.40%) Python
3 48 (22.02%) SQL
4 38 (17.43%) C++
5 36 (16.51%) C#
6 33 (15.14%) JavaScript
7 20 (9.17%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.50%) VBA
9 9 (4.13%) Rust
10 8 (3.67%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Perl
12 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (11.01%) Degree
2 10 (4.59%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.75%) PhD
4 4 (1.83%) PMP
5 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.92%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.46%) CBAP
7 1 (0.46%) CFA
7 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.88%) QA
2 5 (2.29%) Basel III
2 5 (2.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.83%) MiFID
4 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) EMIR
4 3 (1.38%) GAAP
4 3 (1.38%) IFRS
5 2 (0.92%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (6.42%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.67%) Ansible
3 7 (3.21%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.38%) Terraform
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
5 2 (0.92%) logstash
5 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.46%) Control-M
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (8.26%) Microsoft
1 18 (8.26%) Murex
2 14 (6.42%) Oracle
3 9 (4.13%) Solace
4 6 (2.75%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.29%) Sophis
6 4 (1.83%) SAP
6 4 (1.83%) Workday
7 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.38%) Splunk
7 3 (1.38%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.92%) Charles River
8 2 (0.92%) Citrix
8 2 (0.92%) Informatica
8 2 (0.92%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.92%) Sybase
8 2 (0.92%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.46%) FXall