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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 170 295
Rank change year-on-year -199 +125 -112
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 210 368 260
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.52% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 4.46% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 312 220
10th Percentile £450 £537 £500
25th Percentile £499 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £775 £730
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +6.16% -2.67%
75th Percentile £846 £888 £850
90th Percentile £950 £938 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £768 £725
% change year-on-year -15.31% +5.86% -3.33%
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 12,618 8,255 11,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.50% 34.07% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,010 5,413 7,575
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £671
90th Percentile £749 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 309 795
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.46 £22.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +23.21% +20.95%
75th Percentile £69.44 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

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 27 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 27 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 -112 203 £700 -10.54% 75
Yorkshire -54 3 £575 +43.21% 1
North of England -76 3 £575 +20.80% 7
Midlands -68 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
South East -51 1 - - 29
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 10 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.95%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Loan IQ
1 5 (2.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.43%) Summit
4 2 (0.95%) Findur
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.95%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.48%) Actimize
5 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.48%) Endur
5 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.48%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.48%) Global One
5 1 (0.48%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.48%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.48%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.48%) Azure
2 21 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 18 (8.57%) AWS
4 12 (5.71%) PowerApps
5 10 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.38%) SaaS
10 4 (1.90%) GCP
10 4 (1.90%) npm
10 4 (1.90%) Yarn
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.43%) GitHub
11 3 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) Multicast
2 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) RTMP
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.10%) KDB
2 13 (6.19%) Kdb+
2 13 (6.19%) Power BI
3 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.33%) Tableau
5 6 (2.86%) Tick Data
6 5 (2.38%) Big Data
7 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.43%) Metadata
7 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.95%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.95%) Dremio
8 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.19%) JIRA
2 9 (4.29%) Git
3 7 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.38%) webpack
5 2 (0.95%) Gradle
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) GCC
6 1 (0.48%) GDB
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) NUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 139 (66.19%) Finance
2 94 (44.76%) Front Office
3 93 (44.29%) Banking
4 63 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 41 (19.52%) Investment Banking
6 31 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.62%) Financial Institution
8 13 (6.19%) Back Office
9 7 (3.33%) Law
9 7 (3.33%) Legal
10 5 (2.38%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.48%) International Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.48%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (46.67%) Developer
2 38 (18.10%) Java Developer
3 35 (16.67%) Analyst
4 31 (14.76%) Business Analyst
5 30 (14.29%) Senior
6 13 (6.19%) Python Developer
7 11 (5.24%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.76%) FX Business Analyst
8 10 (4.76%) Lead
9 9 (4.29%) KDB Developer
9 9 (4.29%) RAD Developer
10 8 (3.81%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 7 (3.33%) C# Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.86%) Consultant
12 6 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (8.10%) React
3 15 (7.14%) NumPy
3 15 (7.14%) Pandas
4 14 (6.67%) REST
5 10 (4.76%) CSS
6 9 (4.29%) COM
7 8 (3.81%) .NET
8 7 (3.33%) HTML
9 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.86%) Dask
9 6 (2.86%) SciPy
9 6 (2.86%) Spring
9 6 (2.86%) Ultra Messaging
9 6 (2.86%) XML
10 5 (2.38%) Kafka
10 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (2.38%) Redux
11 4 (1.90%) Flask
11 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.43%) Equities
2 41 (19.52%) Fixed Income
3 35 (16.67%) Derivative
4 24 (11.43%) Hedge funds
5 23 (10.95%) Algorithms
6 20 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (4.29%) Cloud Native
8 9 (4.29%) Market Risk
8 9 (4.29%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.81%) Data Structures
10 7 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.86%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.90%) OTC Derivatives
13 3 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.95%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.86%) Linux
2 18 (8.57%) Unix
3 3 (1.43%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.14%) Low Latency
2 52 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.05%) Agile
4 39 (18.57%) Analytics
5 35 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 34 (16.19%) Electronic Trading
7 27 (12.86%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.90%) Data Analysis
8 25 (11.90%) Multithreading
9 23 (10.95%) AI
9 23 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (10.48%) Mathematics
10 22 (10.48%) Scrum
10 22 (10.48%) Software Engineering
11 21 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 21 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (9.52%) Computer Science
13 19 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (8.57%) DevOps
15 16 (7.62%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.19%) Java
2 46 (21.90%) Python
3 44 (20.95%) SQL
4 26 (12.38%) C#
5 24 (11.43%) C++
6 18 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.76%) VBA
9 7 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.90%) Rust
11 3 (1.43%) Perl
11 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.43%) Scala
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (9.05%) Degree
2 8 (3.81%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.86%) PhD
4 5 (2.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.90%) PMP
5 4 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.48%) ACCA
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) CBAP
7 1 (0.48%) CFA
7 1 (0.48%) CIMA
7 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.38%) Basel III
2 5 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.43%) EMIR
4 3 (1.43%) GAAP
4 3 (1.43%) IFRS
4 3 (1.43%) MiFID
4 3 (1.43%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (4.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.33%) Ansible
1 7 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
1 7 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.43%) Control-M
2 3 (1.43%) Grafana
2 3 (1.43%) Kibana
3 2 (0.95%) logstash
3 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (9.05%) Murex
2 17 (8.10%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.76%) Bloomberg
3 10 (4.76%) Oracle
4 8 (3.81%) Solace
5 6 (2.86%) SAP
6 5 (2.38%) IBM
7 4 (1.90%) Workday
8 3 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.43%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.95%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.95%) Charles River
9 2 (0.95%) Citrix
9 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 2 (0.95%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.95%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.95%) Splunk
9 2 (0.95%) Sybase
9 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb