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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 227 160
Rank change year-on-year -178 -67 +59
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 223 336 511
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 1.22% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 3.37% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 248 409
10th Percentile £513 £521 £560
25th Percentile £606 £647 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £938 £838 £888
90th Percentile - £875 £913
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 27
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £64.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £78.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £82.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £87.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +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 15,817 9,957 9,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.99% 36.07% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,561 6,247 6,105
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,087 502 395
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.27 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £24.17
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.78 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -44.59% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.88 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%

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 23 September 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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

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 23 September 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 -141 197 £725 -3.33% 422
North of England -76 11 £875 +103.96% 12
Midlands -47 5 £563 +47.44% 6
North West -51 5 £563 +31.12% 7
South West - 5 £875 - 9
East Midlands -16 4 £550 - 3
North East - 4 £875 - 3
Yorkshire -45 2 - - 2
East of England -30 1 - - 3
West Midlands -41 1 £875 +129.36% 3
South East - 1 £613 - 21
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 5 (2.24%) IIS
2 3 (1.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Orchestrade
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.35%) Actimize
3 3 (1.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.90%) Cognos Controller
4 2 (0.90%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.90%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.90%) Summit
5 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.45%) Endur
5 1 (0.45%) Findur
5 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.28%) AWS
2 13 (5.83%) Azure
3 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.24%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (1.79%) GCP
5 3 (1.35%) SaaS
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (0.90%) Azure AI
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
6 2 (0.90%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.90%) Serverless
6 2 (0.90%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) Multicast
2 6 (2.69%) VLAN
2 6 (2.69%) WAN
3 4 (1.79%) Spanning Tree
3 4 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.93%) KDB
2 6 (2.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.24%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.24%) Power BI
3 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.35%) Tableau
5 2 (0.90%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.45%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.45%) Power Query
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.38%) JIRA
2 7 (3.14%) Git
3 5 (2.24%) Storybook
4 4 (1.79%) Vite
5 2 (0.90%) GitLab
5 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.45%) Gatling
6 1 (0.45%) Gradle
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) Newman
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (65.92%) Finance
2 127 (56.95%) Banking
3 113 (50.67%) Front Office
4 84 (37.67%) Investment Banking
5 60 (26.91%) Social Skills
6 34 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.28%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.04%) Back Office
9 8 (3.59%) Legal
10 6 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.24%) Law
11 5 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.79%) Billing
13 3 (1.35%) French Language
13 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Retail
14 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (47.09%) Developer
2 58 (26.01%) Senior
3 53 (23.77%) Java Developer
4 44 (19.73%) Senior Developer
5 41 (18.39%) Analyst
6 35 (15.70%) Business Analyst
6 35 (15.70%) Senior Java Developer
7 32 (14.35%) React Developer
7 32 (14.35%) UI Developer
8 28 (12.56%) Senior React Developer
9 27 (12.11%) Senior UI Developer
10 25 (11.21%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.04%) Front Office Developer
12 8 (3.59%) Architect
12 8 (3.59%) Banking Analyst
13 7 (3.14%) Lead
13 7 (3.14%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.69%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.69%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.22%) React
2 38 (17.04%) Redux
3 18 (8.07%) Kafka
4 16 (7.17%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (6.28%) .NET
5 14 (6.28%) Spring
6 11 (4.93%) Middleware
7 9 (4.04%) REST
8 8 (3.59%) WebSockets
9 7 (3.14%) OpenFin
9 7 (3.14%) RxJava
9 7 (3.14%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.14%) XML
10 6 (2.69%) Ultra Messaging
10 6 (2.69%) Web Services
11 4 (1.79%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.79%) CSS
11 4 (1.79%) HTML
11 4 (1.79%) Next.js
11 4 (1.79%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (36.32%) Fixed Income
2 68 (30.49%) Derivative
3 53 (23.77%) Equities
4 34 (15.25%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (7.62%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (4.04%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.59%) Hedge funds
9 8 (3.59%) OTC Derivatives
10 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native
10 7 (3.14%) Data Structures
10 7 (3.14%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.69%) Exotic Derivative
12 5 (2.24%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.79%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.35%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.38%) Linux
2 7 (3.14%) Unix
3 6 (2.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (35.87%) Low Latency
2 72 (32.29%) Electronic Trading
3 52 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (20.18%) Agile
5 40 (17.94%) CI/CD
6 33 (14.80%) Software Engineering
6 33 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (13.90%) Validation
8 29 (13.00%) Analytics
8 29 (13.00%) Event-Driven
9 28 (12.56%) Microservices
10 27 (12.11%) AI
11 22 (9.87%) Computer Science
11 22 (9.87%) Multithreading
11 22 (9.87%) Requirements Gathering
11 22 (9.87%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (9.42%) Business Analysis
12 21 (9.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (8.97%) DevOps
14 19 (8.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.01%) Java
2 64 (28.70%) C#
3 54 (24.22%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.94%) Python
4 40 (17.94%) SQL
5 38 (17.04%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.07%) C++
7 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.79%) VBA
8 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.45%) ABAP
9 1 (0.45%) Bash
9 1 (0.45%) C
9 1 (0.45%) Korn
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (12.56%) Degree
2 12 (5.38%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.48%) PhD
4 3 (1.35%) ACCA
4 3 (1.35%) CIMA
4 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.35%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) CCNA
5 2 (0.90%) CCNP
5 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) CCIE
6 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.45%) PMP
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.69%) QA
3 5 (2.24%) IFRS
3 5 (2.24%) MiFID
4 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.79%) EMIR
5 2 (0.90%) GAAP
5 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Control-M
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Kibana
3 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.11%) Murex
2 18 (8.07%) Bloomberg
3 14 (6.28%) Solace
4 9 (4.04%) Oracle
5 7 (3.14%) Arista
5 7 (3.14%) Cisco
6 6 (2.69%) Aruba
7 5 (2.24%) IBM
7 5 (2.24%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.79%) Calypso
9 3 (1.35%) Databricks
9 3 (1.35%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.35%) SAP
10 2 (0.90%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.90%) Cognos
10 2 (0.90%) FIS
10 2 (0.90%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.90%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.90%) Tradeweb