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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 184 256
Rank change year-on-year -94 +72 -70
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 286 432 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.39% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 4.40% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 359 315
10th Percentile £463 £500 £487
25th Percentile £588 £644 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £825
90th Percentile £955 £925 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
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 11,173 9,814 12,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.68% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,854 8,473
10th Percentile £285 £298 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.95% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 318 461
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £41.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% -7.87% +27.14%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -22.86% -20.90% +26.43%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -38 280 £750 -6.25% 54
North of England -44 3 £443 -3.80% 2
Yorkshire -29 2 £575 +43.21% 1
East of England - 2 £438 - 5
West Midlands -24 1 £310 -32.61% 3
North West -25 1 £310 - 1
Midlands -32 1 £310 -32.61% 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 47 (16.43%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (10.49%) Apache
3 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.40%) Confluence
5 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.45%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.40%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.05%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.35%) Endur
6 1 (0.35%) Findur
6 1 (0.35%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.35%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.35%) RMDS
6 1 (0.35%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (27.27%) AWS
2 47 (16.43%) dbt
3 34 (11.89%) Azure
4 30 (10.49%) Snowflake
5 25 (8.74%) GCP
6 18 (6.29%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 11 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.50%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.10%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.75%) GitHub
14 5 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.75%) Serverless
15 3 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.55%) Multicast
2 8 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.75%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) Internet
4 2 (0.70%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.43%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (16.43%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (16.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (16.43%) Dremio
2 30 (10.49%) Apache Ignite
2 30 (10.49%) Data Lake
3 21 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.55%) KDB
6 12 (4.20%) Kdb+
7 7 (2.45%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.10%) Data Mart
8 6 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.10%) Power BI
9 3 (1.05%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.70%) Big Data
10 2 (0.70%) Tableau
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (8.39%) Git
2 11 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.80%) GCC
3 8 (2.80%) GDB
4 7 (2.45%) JIRA
5 5 (1.75%) Gradle
6 3 (1.05%) webpack
7 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.70%) Maven
7 2 (0.70%) Selenium
7 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.35%) GitLab
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 207 (72.38%) Finance
2 160 (55.94%) Front Office
3 151 (52.80%) Banking
4 100 (34.97%) Social Skills
5 84 (29.37%) Investment Banking
6 33 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (9.79%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.20%) Back Office
9 7 (2.45%) International Banking
10 6 (2.10%) Law
11 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.75%) Legal
11 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (52.10%) Developer
2 63 (22.03%) Software Engineer
3 62 (21.68%) Senior
4 52 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 47 (16.43%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (16.43%) AWS Software Engineer
6 44 (15.38%) Python Engineer
6 44 (15.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 38 (13.29%) Java Engineer
8 37 (12.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 33 (11.54%) AWS Developer
10 31 (10.84%) Senior Java Engineer
10 31 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (10.49%) Analyst
11 30 (10.49%) Java Developer
11 30 (10.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 25 (8.74%) Business Analyst
13 23 (8.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 18 (6.29%) Senior Developer
15 16 (5.59%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.17%) NumPy
1 72 (25.17%) Pandas
2 63 (22.03%) SciPy
3 51 (17.83%) React
4 45 (15.73%) FIX Protocol
5 36 (12.59%) AngularJS
5 36 (12.59%) Vue
6 31 (10.84%) Protocol Buffers
7 30 (10.49%) gRPC
8 26 (9.09%) .NET
9 23 (8.04%) REST
10 20 (6.99%) Node.js
11 16 (5.59%) FastAPI
11 16 (5.59%) Flask
11 16 (5.59%) Middleware
11 16 (5.59%) Polars
12 10 (3.50%) .NET Framework
13 9 (3.15%) COM
13 9 (3.15%) CSS
14 8 (2.80%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 113 (39.51%) Fixed Income
2 90 (31.47%) Equities
3 84 (29.37%) Derivative
4 70 (24.48%) Hedge funds
5 30 (10.49%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.04%) Algorithms
7 17 (5.94%) Cloud Native
8 15 (5.24%) Data Structures
9 14 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (3.50%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (1.40%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.40%) Market Risk
15 3 (1.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.58%) Linux
2 25 (8.74%) Unix
3 14 (4.90%) Windows
4 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.91%) Agile
2 96 (33.57%) Software Engineering
3 61 (21.33%) Low Latency
4 59 (20.63%) Investment Management
5 57 (19.93%) Asset Management
6 54 (18.88%) Risk Management
7 51 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (17.48%) Electronic Trading
9 44 (15.38%) Analytics
10 42 (14.69%) Mathematics
11 37 (12.94%) CI/CD
11 37 (12.94%) DevOps
12 33 (11.54%) Scrum
13 31 (10.84%) Multithreading
14 28 (9.79%) Computer Science
15 27 (9.44%) Fintech
16 25 (8.74%) Clean Code
16 25 (8.74%) Order Management
17 22 (7.69%) Data Engineering
18 21 (7.34%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.60%) Python
2 112 (39.16%) Java
3 89 (31.12%) JavaScript
4 69 (24.13%) SQL
5 59 (20.63%) TypeScript
6 53 (18.53%) C#
7 52 (18.18%) C++
8 16 (5.59%) Rust
9 13 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.85%) VBA
11 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.05%) Bash
13 2 (0.70%) Perl
13 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) R
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (9.79%) Degree
2 13 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.15%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.75%) PhD
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.35%) ACCA
7 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.35%) CIMA
7 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.15%) QA
2 8 (2.80%) MiFID
3 5 (1.75%) EMIR
4 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.05%) GDPR
6 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) Basel III
7 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (9.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.94%) ITRS Geneos
3 11 (3.85%) Ansible
4 6 (2.10%) Kibana
4 6 (2.10%) logstash
5 4 (1.40%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.40%) Terraform
6 3 (1.05%) Grafana
6 3 (1.05%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.64%) Murex
3 17 (5.94%) Solace
4 15 (5.24%) Oracle
5 8 (2.80%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.45%) TIBCO
7 6 (2.10%) Sophis
8 5 (1.75%) Tradeweb
9 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.40%) Portware
9 4 (1.40%) Reuters
9 4 (1.40%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.05%) CQG
10 3 (1.05%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.05%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.70%) MarketAxess
11 2 (0.70%) Refinitiv