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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 182 213
Rank change year-on-year -211 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 213 367 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.53% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 4.45% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 307 324
10th Percentile £450 £563 £575
25th Percentile £525 £654 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £849 £875 £888
90th Percentile £934 £938 £896
UK median daily rate £683 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -8.93% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 18
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £29.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -58.21% +8.95%

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 13,591 8,238 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.35% 34.29% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,545 5,352 7,345
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 337 835
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.21
Median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.23% -4.48% +58.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.75 £82.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £41.46 £32.43 £34.21
% change year-on-year +27.84% -5.20% +55.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -123 200 £708 -8.71% 81
East Midlands -19 5 £550 - 1
Midlands -59 5 £550 +126.80% 1
North of England -88 4 £563 +5.44% 7
North West -57 2 £563 +5.44% 6
Yorkshire -64 2 - - 1
South West -37 1 £875 +133.33% 4
South East -65 1 - - 15
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 7 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.35%) Confluence
3 4 (1.88%) IIS
4 2 (0.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (2.35%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.88%) Orchestrade
4 3 (1.41%) Findur
4 3 (1.41%) Summit
5 2 (0.94%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.94%) Global One
5 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.94%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.47%) Actimize
6 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.47%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.47%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.47%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.39%) Azure
2 15 (7.04%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.10%) AWS
4 8 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.29%) SaaS
6 6 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.88%) GCP
8 4 (1.88%) npm
8 4 (1.88%) Yarn
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.94%) OCI
10 2 (0.94%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.94%) Serverless
11 1 (0.47%) Apple Pay
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.47%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Multicast
2 2 (0.94%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) RTMP
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.04%) KDB
2 12 (5.63%) Power BI
3 9 (4.23%) Tableau
4 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.35%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.41%) Big Data
7 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.41%) Metadata
7 3 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.41%) Redis
7 3 (1.41%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 16 (7.51%) JIRA
2 6 (2.82%) Git
3 5 (2.35%) webpack
4 4 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.41%) Gradle
5 3 (1.41%) Maven
6 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.94%) JUnit
6 2 (0.94%) Postman
6 2 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.94%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.94%) Selenium
6 2 (0.94%) TestNG
7 1 (0.47%) Gatling
7 1 (0.47%) JMeter
7 1 (0.47%) Newman
7 1 (0.47%) NUnit
7 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 134 (62.91%) Finance
2 92 (43.19%) Banking
3 86 (40.38%) Front Office
4 56 (26.29%) Investment Banking
5 49 (23.00%) Social Skills
6 33 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.04%) Back Office
8 12 (5.63%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.82%) Legal
10 4 (1.88%) Billing
10 4 (1.88%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.41%) Law
12 2 (0.94%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.94%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (48.83%) Developer
2 45 (21.13%) Java Developer
3 41 (19.25%) Senior
4 38 (17.84%) Analyst
5 32 (15.02%) Business Analyst
6 24 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.92%) C# Developer
8 15 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (5.63%) React Developer
10 11 (5.16%) UI Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior React Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Senior UI Developer
13 8 (3.76%) Quantitative Developer
14 7 (3.29%) Front Office Developer
14 7 (3.29%) FX Business Analyst
14 7 (3.29%) Lead
14 7 (3.29%) Risk Analyst
14 7 (3.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.02%) React
2 26 (12.21%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (7.51%) Redux
4 12 (5.63%) .NET
4 12 (5.63%) Kafka
5 11 (5.16%) Spring
6 9 (4.23%) CSS
6 9 (4.23%) XML
7 7 (3.29%) Ultra Messaging
8 6 (2.82%) HTML
8 6 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.35%) Electron
9 5 (2.35%) Middleware
9 5 (2.35%) OpenFin
9 5 (2.35%) REST
10 4 (1.88%) RxJava
10 4 (1.88%) Web Services
11 3 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.41%) RxJS
12 2 (0.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.00%) Fixed Income
2 43 (20.19%) Derivative
3 35 (16.43%) Equities
4 23 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (9.39%) Algorithms
5 20 (9.39%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (4.23%) Market Risk
7 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.76%) OTC Derivatives
9 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.82%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.88%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.94%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.94%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.04%) Linux
2 9 (4.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.23%) Low Latency
2 49 (23.00%) Electronic Trading
3 48 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (21.13%) Agile
5 37 (17.37%) CI/CD
6 31 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (11.27%) AI
8 23 (10.80%) Multithreading
9 22 (10.33%) Software Engineering
10 21 (9.86%) Analytics
10 21 (9.86%) Data Protection
10 21 (9.86%) Microservices
11 20 (9.39%) Event-Driven
11 20 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.92%) Computer Science
12 19 (8.92%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (8.45%) Risk Management
13 18 (8.45%) Validation
14 17 (7.98%) User Experience
15 15 (7.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (38.03%) Java
2 42 (19.72%) C#
3 35 (16.43%) SQL
4 31 (14.55%) Python
4 31 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.45%) C++
7 5 (2.35%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.88%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.88%) Scala
9 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.94%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (8.45%) Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Master's Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.35%) PhD
3 5 (2.35%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.88%) PMP
5 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.94%) ACCA
6 2 (0.94%) CIMA
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) CBAP
7 1 (0.47%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) QA
2 8 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.82%) IFRS
3 6 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.35%) Basel III
4 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.88%) EMIR
5 4 (1.88%) MiFID
6 3 (1.41%) GAAP
6 3 (1.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.94%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.47%) GDPR
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.88%) Control-M
3 3 (1.41%) Ansible
3 3 (1.41%) Grafana
3 3 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.94%) Kibana
4 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (10.33%) Murex
2 11 (5.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Oracle
3 9 (4.23%) Bloomberg
3 9 (4.23%) Solace
4 8 (3.76%) SAP
5 6 (2.82%) IBM
6 4 (1.88%) Workday
7 3 (1.41%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.94%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.94%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.94%) Calypso
8 2 (0.94%) Charles River
8 2 (0.94%) Citrix
8 2 (0.94%) Informatica
8 2 (0.94%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.94%) Sybase
9 1 (0.47%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) TSYS