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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 188 259
Rank change year-on-year -105 +71 -74
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 271 414 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.37% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 4.26% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 349 299
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £575 £638 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £844 £888 £834
90th Percentile £975 £938 £955
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £55.25 -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 11,187 9,716 12,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.13% 32.04% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,852 8,375
10th Percentile £285 £294 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 306 460
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £23.59 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%
75th Percentile £57.63 £67.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +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 7 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 7 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 -55 265 £750 -6.25% 65
North of England -42 3 £443 -3.80% 67
Yorkshire -41 2 £575 +43.21% 31
East of England - 2 £438 - 61
North West -15 1 £310 - 29
West Midlands -26 1 £310 -32.61% 41
Midlands -32 1 £310 -32.61% 81
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 43 (15.87%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (10.33%) Apache
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) Confluence
5 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.95%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.58%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.48%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.11%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Endur
6 1 (0.37%) Findur
6 1 (0.37%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.37%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.37%) RMDS
6 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.20%) AWS
2 43 (15.87%) dbt
3 32 (11.81%) Azure
4 28 (10.33%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.75%) GCP
6 17 (6.27%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.06%) PowerApps
9 10 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.69%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.21%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.85%) GitHub
13 5 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.48%) Serverless
15 3 (1.11%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) Multicast
2 5 (1.85%) Firewall
3 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.74%) Internet
4 2 (0.74%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.87%) Amazon Athena
1 43 (15.87%) Apache Arrow
1 43 (15.87%) Apache Iceberg
1 43 (15.87%) Dremio
2 28 (10.33%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (10.33%) Data Lake
3 20 (7.38%) SQL Server
4 18 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.17%) KDB
6 13 (4.80%) Kdb+
7 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.21%) Power BI
8 4 (1.48%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.11%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.74%) Big Data
10 2 (0.74%) Tableau
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Git
2 11 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.58%) GCC
3 7 (2.58%) GDB
3 7 (2.58%) JIRA
4 5 (1.85%) Gradle
5 3 (1.11%) webpack
6 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
6 2 (0.74%) Selenium
6 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 192 (70.85%) Finance
2 150 (55.35%) Front Office
3 146 (53.87%) Banking
4 97 (35.79%) Social Skills
5 81 (29.89%) Investment Banking
6 26 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (9.23%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.80%) Back Office
9 6 (2.21%) International Banking
9 6 (2.21%) Law
10 5 (1.85%) Legal
10 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (50.92%) Developer
2 58 (21.40%) Senior
3 57 (21.03%) Software Engineer
4 46 (16.97%) Python Developer
5 43 (15.87%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (15.87%) AWS Software Engineer
6 41 (15.13%) Python Engineer
6 41 (15.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 35 (12.92%) Java Engineer
8 34 (12.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 30 (11.07%) Analyst
9 30 (11.07%) AWS Developer
9 30 (11.07%) Java Developer
10 29 (10.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (10.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 25 (9.23%) Business Analyst
13 19 (7.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 18 (6.64%) Senior Developer
15 15 (5.54%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.72%) NumPy
1 67 (24.72%) Pandas
2 58 (21.40%) SciPy
3 46 (16.97%) React
4 41 (15.13%) FIX Protocol
5 32 (11.81%) AngularJS
5 32 (11.81%) Vue
6 29 (10.70%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (10.33%) gRPC
8 24 (8.86%) .NET
9 21 (7.75%) REST
10 17 (6.27%) Node.js
11 15 (5.54%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.54%) Flask
11 15 (5.54%) Polars
12 11 (4.06%) Middleware
13 9 (3.32%) .NET Framework
13 9 (3.32%) COM
13 9 (3.32%) CSS
14 8 (2.95%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (38.01%) Fixed Income
2 84 (31.00%) Equities
3 78 (28.78%) Derivative
4 66 (24.35%) Hedge funds
5 28 (10.33%) Pricing Data
6 20 (7.38%) Algorithms
7 17 (6.27%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (4.43%) Data Structures
10 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
11 9 (3.32%) Onboarding
12 8 (2.95%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
15 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 4 (1.48%) Credit Derivative
16 4 (1.48%) Credit Risk
17 3 (1.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
18 2 (0.74%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.93%) Linux
2 23 (8.49%) Unix
3 14 (5.17%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.01%) Agile
2 86 (31.73%) Software Engineering
3 61 (22.51%) Low Latency
4 52 (19.19%) Investment Management
5 51 (18.82%) Asset Management
5 51 (18.82%) Risk Management
6 50 (18.45%) Electronic Trading
7 47 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.87%) Analytics
9 37 (13.65%) Mathematics
10 35 (12.92%) DevOps
11 33 (12.18%) CI/CD
12 32 (11.81%) Multithreading
13 29 (10.70%) Scrum
14 24 (8.86%) Clean Code
14 24 (8.86%) Computer Science
15 23 (8.49%) Fintech
15 23 (8.49%) Order Management
16 21 (7.75%) Data Analysis
17 20 (7.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (47.23%) Python
2 105 (38.75%) Java
3 81 (29.89%) JavaScript
4 62 (22.88%) SQL
5 52 (19.19%) TypeScript
6 46 (16.97%) C#
6 46 (16.97%) C++
7 15 (5.54%) Rust
8 13 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.06%) VBA
10 3 (1.11%) Bash
10 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.74%) Perl
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (9.59%) Degree
2 11 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.32%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.85%) PhD
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.74%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.37%) ACCA
6 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.37%) CIMA
6 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.32%) QA
2 8 (2.95%) MiFID
3 5 (1.85%) EMIR
4 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.11%) GDPR
6 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (9.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.27%) ITRS Geneos
3 11 (4.06%) Ansible
4 6 (2.21%) Kibana
4 6 (2.21%) logstash
5 4 (1.48%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.48%) Terraform
6 3 (1.11%) Grafana
6 3 (1.11%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.27%) Murex
3 16 (5.90%) Solace
4 14 (5.17%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.58%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.21%) Sophis
8 5 (1.85%) Tradeweb
9 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.48%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.48%) Portware
9 4 (1.48%) Reuters
9 4 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.11%) CQG
10 3 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.11%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.74%) Calypso
11 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.74%) Refinitiv