Foreign Exchange (FX) Contract Job Trends in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 113 180
Rank change year-on-year -70 +67 -94
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 216 322 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 2.37% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.80% 6.86% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 268 199
10th Percentile £463 £594 £500
25th Percentile £525 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £783 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +11.79% -9.68%
75th Percentile £867 £895 £800
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £950
England median daily rate £750 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -9.68%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,682 4,695 6,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.22% 34.58% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,697 2,980 4,303
10th Percentile £350 £319 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £812
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 60 179
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.16 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.73
Median hourly rate £28.55 £39.02 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +34.55% -15.72%
75th Percentile £53.13 £61.50 £48.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £66.80
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.16% +13.85% +44.54%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Foreign Exchange (FX) job vacancy trend in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Central London +4 42 £650 -8.06% 14
East London - 7 £1,000 -
South London -12 2 £775 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.78%) Apache
2 6 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.78%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.93%) Summit
4 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.46%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.46%) RMDS
4 1 (0.46%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.96%) AWS
2 21 (9.72%) Azure
3 18 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.63%) dbt
4 10 (4.63%) PowerApps
5 9 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 8 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.24%) GCP
7 7 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.78%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.85%) SaaS
11 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.39%) npm
11 3 (1.39%) Yarn
12 2 (0.93%) GitHub
12 2 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.78%) Multicast
2 2 (0.93%) RTMP
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.41%) KDB
2 15 (6.94%) Kdb+
2 15 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (4.63%) Apache Arrow
3 10 (4.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 10 (4.63%) Dremio
3 10 (4.63%) Power BI
4 6 (2.78%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.78%) Tick Data
5 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.85%) Tableau
6 3 (1.39%) Big Data
6 3 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Git
2 11 (5.09%) JIRA
3 6 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.39%) GCC
4 3 (1.39%) GDB
4 3 (1.39%) Gradle
4 3 (1.39%) webpack
5 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.46%) JUnit
5 1 (0.46%) Maven
5 1 (0.46%) NUnit
5 1 (0.46%) Subversion
5 1 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 148 (68.52%) Finance
2 109 (50.46%) Front Office
3 100 (46.30%) Banking
4 76 (35.19%) Social Skills
5 44 (20.37%) Investment Banking
6 25 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.72%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.70%) Back Office
9 7 (3.24%) Law
9 7 (3.24%) Legal
10 5 (2.31%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) International Banking
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 115 (53.24%) Developer
2 37 (17.13%) Java Developer
3 33 (15.28%) Analyst
3 33 (15.28%) Senior
4 31 (14.35%) Business Analyst
5 22 (10.19%) Python Developer
6 14 (6.48%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.02%) Quantitative Developer
8 12 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 10 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) AWS Software Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Lead
9 10 (4.63%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 10 (4.63%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) KDB Developer
10 9 (4.17%) RAD Developer
10 9 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.89%) FIX Protocol
2 27 (12.50%) NumPy
2 27 (12.50%) Pandas
3 22 (10.19%) React
4 18 (8.33%) SciPy
5 15 (6.94%) REST
6 13 (6.02%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.56%) CSS
7 12 (5.56%) Vue
8 11 (5.09%) .NET
9 10 (4.63%) HTML
10 9 (4.17%) COM
11 8 (3.70%) FastAPI
11 8 (3.70%) Flask
11 8 (3.70%) Polars
12 7 (3.24%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (2.78%) Dask
13 6 (2.78%) gRPC
14 5 (2.31%) XML
15 4 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.93%) Equities
2 51 (23.61%) Fixed Income
3 47 (21.76%) Derivative
4 32 (14.81%) Hedge funds
5 24 (11.11%) Algorithms
6 16 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (5.56%) Data Structures
8 11 (5.09%) Cloud Native
9 10 (4.63%) Onboarding
10 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
11 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (3.70%) Market Risk
12 7 (3.24%) Credit Risk
12 7 (3.24%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (2.78%) Pricing Data
14 5 (2.31%) Equity Derivative
15 4 (1.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
16 3 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
17 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
17 2 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.13%) Linux
2 19 (8.80%) Unix
3 10 (4.63%) Windows
4 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.46%) Low Latency
2 54 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (23.15%) Agile
4 44 (20.37%) Analytics
4 44 (20.37%) Risk Management
5 37 (17.13%) Mathematics
6 33 (15.28%) Software Engineering
7 31 (14.35%) Electronic Trading
8 26 (12.04%) Data Analysis
8 26 (12.04%) Multithreading
8 26 (12.04%) Scrum
9 25 (11.57%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.19%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (7.87%) AI
12 17 (7.87%) Business Analysis
12 17 (7.87%) Data Protection
12 17 (7.87%) DevOps
12 17 (7.87%) Migration
12 17 (7.87%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.57%) Java
2 72 (33.33%) Python
3 47 (21.76%) SQL
4 37 (17.13%) C++
5 36 (16.67%) C#
6 32 (14.81%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.80%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.56%) VBA
9 8 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.70%) Rust
10 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Perl
11 2 (0.93%) Scala
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (10.19%) Degree
2 10 (4.63%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.78%) PhD
4 5 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.85%) PMP
6 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.46%) CBAP
8 1 (0.46%) CFA
8 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) QA
2 5 (2.31%) Basel III
2 5 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.85%) MiFID
3 4 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.39%) EMIR
4 3 (1.39%) GAAP
4 3 (1.39%) IFRS
5 2 (0.93%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (6.02%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.70%) Ansible
3 6 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.39%) Terraform
5 2 (0.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.93%) logstash
6 1 (0.46%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.46%) Control-M
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.33%) Murex
3 14 (6.48%) Oracle
4 8 (3.70%) Solace
5 5 (2.31%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.31%) Sophis
6 4 (1.85%) SAP
6 4 (1.85%) Workday
7 3 (1.39%) Splunk
7 3 (1.39%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.93%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.93%) Charles River
8 2 (0.93%) Citrix
8 2 (0.93%) Informatica
8 2 (0.93%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.93%) Sybase
8 2 (0.93%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.46%) Zopa