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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 193 329
Rank change year-on-year -175 +136 -158
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 211 351 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 1.37% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 4.09% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 292 185
10th Percentile £463 £551 £500
25th Percentile £525 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +10.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £849 £888 £800
90th Percentile £975 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £718 £751 £700
% change year-on-year -4.40% +7.21% -9.39%
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 12,311 8,582 11,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.83% 33.59% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,799 5,391 7,624
10th Percentile £290 £281 £258
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £546
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.14% -5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £669 £658
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 275 763
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.83 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.75 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +19.00% +34.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.36 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.08
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.05% +33.78%

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 March 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 March 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 -98 205 £725 -8.81% 69
Midlands -56 2 - -
Yorkshire -60 2 £575 +43.21% 1
North of England -72 2 £575 +20.80% 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
South East -45 1 - - 24
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 9 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.84%) Confluence
3 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.90%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.95%) Summit
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.37%) AWS
2 22 (10.43%) Azure
3 20 (9.48%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.69%) PowerApps
5 10 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.74%) Power Automate
6 8 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.84%) SaaS
9 5 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.37%) dbt
9 5 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.90%) GCP
10 4 (1.90%) npm
10 4 (1.90%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.90%) Yarn
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Multicast
2 2 (0.95%) RTMP
2 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.11%) KDB
2 14 (6.64%) Kdb+
3 12 (5.69%) Power BI
3 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.84%) Tick Data
5 5 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.37%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (2.37%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (2.37%) Dremio
5 5 (2.37%) Tableau
6 4 (1.90%) Apache Ignite
6 4 (1.90%) Big Data
6 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.42%) Data Mart
7 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.21%) JIRA
2 10 (4.74%) Git
3 7 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.37%) webpack
5 4 (1.90%) Gradle
6 2 (0.95%) GCC
6 2 (0.95%) GDB
6 2 (0.95%) Maven
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) NUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) Subversion
7 1 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 141 (66.82%) Finance
2 98 (46.45%) Front Office
3 96 (45.50%) Banking
4 70 (33.18%) Social Skills
5 40 (18.96%) Investment Banking
6 30 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.06%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.27%) Back Office
9 7 (3.32%) Law
9 7 (3.32%) Legal
10 5 (2.37%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.95%) International Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Retail
12 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 104 (49.29%) Developer
2 37 (17.54%) Java Developer
3 36 (17.06%) Analyst
4 32 (15.17%) Business Analyst
4 32 (15.17%) Senior
5 16 (7.58%) Python Developer
6 10 (4.74%) Lead
7 9 (4.27%) KDB Developer
7 9 (4.27%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 9 (4.27%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (4.27%) RAD Developer
7 9 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (4.27%) Software Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) C# Developer
8 8 (3.79%) Front Office Developer
8 8 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (3.79%) FX Business Analyst
8 8 (3.79%) Java Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.32%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.80%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (9.48%) NumPy
2 20 (9.48%) Pandas
2 20 (9.48%) React
3 14 (6.64%) REST
4 13 (6.16%) CSS
5 11 (5.21%) SciPy
6 10 (4.74%) HTML
7 9 (4.27%) .NET
7 9 (4.27%) COM
8 8 (3.79%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.32%) Vue
10 6 (2.84%) Dask
10 6 (2.84%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.84%) Flask
10 6 (2.84%) Polars
11 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (2.37%) XML
12 4 (1.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.22%) Fixed Income
2 48 (22.75%) Equities
3 45 (21.33%) Derivative
4 28 (13.27%) Hedge funds
5 23 (10.90%) Algorithms
6 19 (9.00%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (5.69%) Data Structures
8 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
8 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
9 9 (4.27%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.79%) Market Risk
11 7 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (2.84%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.90%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.90%) Pricing Data
14 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.42%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.22%) Linux
2 18 (8.53%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.59%) Low Latency
2 53 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.85%) Analytics
4 42 (19.91%) Agile
5 39 (18.48%) Risk Management
6 33 (15.64%) Electronic Trading
7 30 (14.22%) Mathematics
8 27 (12.80%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.80%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.32%) Data Analysis
10 24 (11.37%) Scrum
11 22 (10.43%) Computer Science
11 22 (10.43%) Multithreading
12 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (9.48%) Data Protection
14 19 (9.00%) DevOps
15 18 (8.53%) AI
15 18 (8.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (8.06%) Migration
16 17 (8.06%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.49%) Java
2 60 (28.44%) Python
3 47 (22.27%) SQL
4 31 (14.69%) C#
5 30 (14.22%) C++
6 25 (11.85%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.69%) VBA
9 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.84%) Rust
11 3 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.95%) Perl
12 2 (0.95%) Scala
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (10.43%) Degree
2 10 (4.74%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.84%) PhD
4 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.90%) PMP
6 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CBAP
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.06%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.37%) Basel III
4 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.42%) EMIR
5 3 (1.42%) GAAP
5 3 (1.42%) IFRS
5 3 (1.42%) MiFID
5 3 (1.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.95%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (5.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) Ansible
3 6 (2.84%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.42%) Grafana
4 3 (1.42%) Kibana
4 3 (1.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) logstash
5 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.47%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (10.90%) Murex
2 17 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.16%) Oracle
4 10 (4.74%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.79%) Solace
6 4 (1.90%) SAP
6 4 (1.90%) Workday
7 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.42%) Splunk
7 3 (1.42%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.95%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.95%) Charles River
8 2 (0.95%) Citrix
8 2 (0.95%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
8 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.95%) Sybase
8 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.47%) ION Trading