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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 183 237
Rank change year-on-year -85 +54 -54
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 304 415 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.35% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.77% 4.28% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 341 341
10th Percentile £463 £500 £479
25th Percentile £612 £644 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £825
90th Percentile £920 £913 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 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 10,976 9,685 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.44% 31.56% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,878 5,782 8,753
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 302 463
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +52.54%
75th Percentile £52.66 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.33% -15.73% +50.29%

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 18 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 18 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 -32 291 £750 -6.25% 164
North of England -33 9 £429 -6.74% 1
North West -16 6 £429 - 1
Yorkshire -37 3 £575 +43.21%
Midlands -32 2 £310 -32.61% 1
East of England - 2 £438 -
West Midlands -28 1 £310 -32.61% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
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 53 (17.43%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (11.18%) Apache
3 7 (2.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.30%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.32%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.99%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.66%) Kondor
6 1 (0.33%) Endur
6 1 (0.33%) Findur
6 1 (0.33%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.33%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.33%) RMDS
6 1 (0.33%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.62%) AWS
2 53 (17.43%) dbt
3 35 (11.51%) Azure
4 34 (11.18%) Snowflake
5 29 (9.54%) GCP
6 17 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.62%) PowerApps
9 10 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.29%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.30%) GitHub
12 7 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.97%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.64%) Serverless
15 4 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.93%) Multicast
2 9 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.97%) Firewall
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.33%) SSL
5 1 (0.33%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.43%) Amazon Athena
1 53 (17.43%) Apache Arrow
1 53 (17.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 53 (17.43%) Dremio
2 34 (11.18%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (11.18%) Data Lake
3 24 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.24%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.28%) KDB
6 12 (3.95%) Kdb+
7 7 (2.30%) Data Mart
7 7 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.97%) Power BI
9 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.99%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.66%) Tableau
11 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (7.89%) Git
2 11 (3.62%) JIRA
3 9 (2.96%) GCC
3 9 (2.96%) GDB
3 9 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.64%) Gradle
5 3 (0.99%) Maven
5 3 (0.99%) webpack
6 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.33%) Ant
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) git-flow
7 1 (0.33%) GitLab
7 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 220 (72.37%) Finance
2 169 (55.59%) Front Office
3 159 (52.30%) Banking
4 101 (33.22%) Social Skills
5 91 (29.93%) Investment Banking
6 35 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (8.88%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.95%) Back Office
9 8 (2.63%) International Banking
10 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.64%) Law
10 5 (1.64%) Legal
10 5 (1.64%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.99%) Local Government
13 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (51.64%) Developer
2 72 (23.68%) Software Engineer
3 67 (22.04%) Senior
4 54 (17.76%) Python Developer
5 53 (17.43%) AWS Engineer
5 53 (17.43%) AWS Software Engineer
6 49 (16.12%) Python Engineer
6 49 (16.12%) Python Software Engineer
7 42 (13.82%) Java Engineer
7 42 (13.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 36 (11.84%) AWS Developer
9 35 (11.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (11.18%) Java Developer
10 34 (11.18%) Senior Java Engineer
10 34 (11.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 30 (9.87%) Analyst
12 27 (8.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 25 (8.22%) Business Analyst
14 19 (6.25%) Senior Developer
15 17 (5.59%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (25.99%) NumPy
1 79 (25.99%) Pandas
2 70 (23.03%) SciPy
3 56 (18.42%) React
4 49 (16.12%) FIX Protocol
5 40 (13.16%) AngularJS
5 40 (13.16%) Vue
6 35 (11.51%) Protocol Buffers
7 34 (11.18%) gRPC
8 25 (8.22%) .NET
8 25 (8.22%) REST
9 23 (7.57%) Node.js
10 18 (5.92%) Middleware
11 17 (5.59%) FastAPI
11 17 (5.59%) Flask
11 17 (5.59%) Polars
12 10 (3.29%) .NET Framework
13 9 (2.96%) COM
13 9 (2.96%) CSS
13 9 (2.96%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 122 (40.13%) Fixed Income
2 99 (32.57%) Equities
3 89 (29.28%) Derivative
4 76 (25.00%) Hedge funds
5 34 (11.18%) Pricing Data
6 23 (7.57%) Algorithms
7 17 (5.59%) Cloud Native
8 16 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (4.93%) Data Structures
10 10 (3.29%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (3.29%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.30%) Market Risk
12 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.97%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
13 6 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.32%) Clustering
14 4 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.72%) Linux
2 26 (8.55%) Unix
3 16 (5.26%) Windows
4 4 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.45%) Agile
2 107 (35.20%) Software Engineering
3 67 (22.04%) Investment Management
4 66 (21.71%) Asset Management
5 63 (20.72%) Low Latency
6 61 (20.07%) Risk Management
7 54 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (16.78%) Electronic Trading
9 45 (14.80%) Analytics
10 43 (14.14%) Mathematics
11 40 (13.16%) CI/CD
12 37 (12.17%) DevOps
13 33 (10.86%) Fintech
13 33 (10.86%) Multithreading
14 32 (10.53%) Scrum
15 30 (9.87%) Computer Science
16 26 (8.55%) Clean Code
17 25 (8.22%) Order Management
18 24 (7.89%) Data Engineering
19 22 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.01%) Python
2 121 (39.80%) Java
3 97 (31.91%) JavaScript
4 71 (23.36%) SQL
5 67 (22.04%) TypeScript
6 54 (17.76%) C#
7 53 (17.43%) C++
8 17 (5.59%) Rust
9 14 (4.61%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.62%) VBA
11 4 (1.32%) Bash
11 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.33%) R
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (9.54%) Degree
2 15 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.96%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.64%) PhD
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) ACCA
7 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) CIMA
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.95%) QA
2 9 (2.96%) MiFID
3 4 (1.32%) Basel III
3 4 (1.32%) EMIR
4 3 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Basel II
6 1 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.33%) GAAP
6 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (9.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (2.96%) Ansible
4 6 (1.97%) Kibana
4 6 (1.97%) logstash
4 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.32%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.32%) Terraform
6 3 (0.99%) Grafana
6 3 (0.99%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.66%) Control-M
7 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.58%) Solace
3 19 (6.25%) Murex
4 18 (5.92%) Oracle
5 8 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.30%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.97%) Sophis
8 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.32%) Portware
8 4 (1.32%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.32%) Reuters
9 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.99%) CQG
9 3 (0.99%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.99%) Splunk
9 3 (0.99%) TOWER Software
9 3 (0.99%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.66%) Calypso
10 2 (0.66%) Sybase