Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 190 217
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -23
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 412 646 932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.36% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 4.03% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 528 797
10th Percentile £575 £525 £538
25th Percentile £663 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £800
90th Percentile £894 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £43.00

All Generic Skills
England

Foreign Exchange (FX) is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,232 16,017 23,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,316 11,173 17,100
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 830 556 611
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.19 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.34 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year +61.18% -14.98% +3.02%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.31 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

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 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

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 30 May 2024. 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 -17 363 £800 +6.67% 156
South West +23 24 £570 - 10
Midlands +21 9 £600 - 2
East Midlands +19 6 £600 -
East of England - 6 £600 - 5
South East +18 5 £600 - 6
North of England +19 3 £625 +25.00% 5
West Midlands +15 3 - - 2
North West +15 3 £625 +25.00% 5
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 117 (28.40%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (28.16%) Apache
3 7 (1.70%) Confluence
3 7 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.91%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.67%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.21%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.21%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.97%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.97%) thinkFolio
6 3 (0.73%) Endur
7 2 (0.49%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.24%) Actimize
8 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.24%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 183 (44.42%) AWS
2 115 (27.91%) dbt
3 103 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 95 (23.06%) GCP
5 47 (11.41%) Azure
6 20 (4.85%) GitHub
7 11 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.70%) PaaS
10 6 (1.46%) Azure API Management
10 6 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.46%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.46%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.21%) npm
11 5 (1.21%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) HTTPS
1 4 (0.97%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (27.91%) Apache Arrow
1 115 (27.91%) Dremio
2 110 (26.70%) Amazon Athena
2 110 (26.70%) Apache Ignite
3 108 (26.21%) Data Lake
4 32 (7.77%) KDB
5 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.46%) Data Mart
7 6 (1.46%) Power BI
7 6 (1.46%) Tableau
8 5 (1.21%) Big Data
9 4 (0.97%) Metadata
9 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.24%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 41 (9.95%) JIRA
2 27 (6.55%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.13%) GoogleTest
4 14 (3.40%) Git
5 6 (1.46%) Postman
5 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.21%) webpack
7 4 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.49%) Babel
8 2 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.49%) Selenium
8 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.24%) Ant
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.24%) Maven
General
1 282 (68.45%) Finance
2 242 (58.74%) Front Office
3 214 (51.94%) Banking
4 159 (38.59%) Investment Banking
5 65 (15.78%) Social Skills
6 37 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.88%) Back Office
8 8 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.46%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.21%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Law
12 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Retail
13 1 (0.24%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (38.11%) Developer
2 112 (27.18%) Software Engineer
3 93 (22.57%) Senior
4 75 (18.20%) Analyst
5 58 (14.08%) Java Engineer
5 58 (14.08%) Java Software Engineer
6 57 (13.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 57 (13.83%) Java Developer
7 53 (12.86%) Business Analyst
8 51 (12.38%) Lead
9 46 (11.17%) Python Engineer
9 46 (11.17%) Python Software Engineer
10 45 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (10.44%) Finance Manager
12 42 (10.19%) Senior Developer
13 38 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
14 36 (8.74%) AWS Software Engineer
14 36 (8.74%) Python Developer
15 35 (8.50%) Financial Analyst
16 32 (7.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (27.91%) gRPC
1 115 (27.91%) Pandas
1 115 (27.91%) Protocol Buffers
2 109 (26.46%) NumPy
2 109 (26.46%) SciPy
3 56 (13.59%) React
4 32 (7.77%) .NET
5 22 (5.34%) FIX Protocol
6 21 (5.10%) .NET Core
6 21 (5.10%) Redux
7 19 (4.61%) Qt
8 14 (3.40%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.40%) CSS
8 14 (3.40%) HTML
9 12 (2.91%) Vue
10 10 (2.43%) Middleware
11 9 (2.18%) Rendezvous
12 7 (1.70%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (1.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 219 (53.16%) Derivative
2 214 (51.94%) Fixed Income
3 199 (48.30%) Equities
4 169 (41.02%) Hedge funds
5 42 (10.19%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.40%) Pricing Data
7 14 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.16%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.67%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
15 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.73%) PMI
16 2 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.95%) Linux
2 24 (5.83%) Unix
3 10 (2.43%) Windows
4 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (63.11%) Agile
2 184 (44.66%) Asset Management
3 170 (41.26%) Software Engineering
4 146 (35.44%) Investment Management
5 57 (13.83%) Analytics
6 52 (12.62%) Line Management
7 50 (12.14%) DevOps
8 44 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (9.71%) Fintech
10 38 (9.22%) Low Latency
11 37 (8.98%) Electronic Trading
11 37 (8.98%) Greeks
12 35 (8.50%) CI/CD
13 34 (8.25%) TDD
14 30 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 30 (7.28%) E-Commerce
14 30 (7.28%) Machine Learning
15 25 (6.07%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (6.07%) Product Management
16 23 (5.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 209 (50.73%) Python
2 202 (49.03%) Java
3 162 (39.32%) JavaScript
4 142 (34.47%) TypeScript
5 67 (16.26%) SQL
6 41 (9.95%) C#
7 33 (8.01%) C++
8 9 (2.18%) Perl
9 6 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.46%) Ruby
9 6 (1.46%) Scala
10 5 (1.21%) VBA
11 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.49%) VB
13 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (3.88%) Degree
2 11 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (1.70%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.46%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.73%) CCNA
7 3 (0.73%) CISA
7 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.73%) CISM
7 3 (0.73%) CISSP
7 3 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.31%) QA
3 19 (4.61%) MISRA
4 6 (1.46%) MiFID
4 6 (1.46%) SEPA
5 4 (0.97%) GAAP
6 2 (0.49%) EMIR
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.97%) Docker
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.97%) Ansible
2 4 (0.97%) Control-M
2 4 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.49%) Terraform
4 1 (0.24%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.85%) Bloomberg
3 19 (4.61%) Google
4 18 (4.37%) SAP
5 15 (3.64%) ION Trading
6 12 (2.91%) BISAM
6 12 (2.91%) TIBCO
7 11 (2.67%) Murex
7 11 (2.67%) Oracle
7 11 (2.67%) Solace
8 5 (1.21%) Refinitiv
9 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.97%) Calypso
9 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.97%) Tradeweb
10 3 (0.73%) Cisco
10 3 (0.73%) Okta
10 3 (0.73%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.73%) Qualys
10 3 (0.73%) VMware