Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 102 122
Rank change year-on-year -36 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 311 698 935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.76% 2.58% 2.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.31% 7.18% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 573 794
10th Percentile £550 £550 £538
25th Percentile £663 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £875 £860 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £884
England median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 -
% change year-on-year +8.95% - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

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 27 April 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
Central London -50 32 £694 -7.50% 13
South London +13 4 £850 +100.00%
West London - 1 - - 1
Foreign Exchange (FX)
England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 73 (23.47%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (21.22%) Apache
3 5 (1.61%) Confluence
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.54%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.25%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.96%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.32%) Actimize
6 1 (0.32%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.32%) RMDS
6 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 138 (44.37%) AWS
2 82 (26.37%) GCP
3 65 (20.90%) dbt
4 60 (19.29%) Snowflake
5 58 (18.65%) Azure
6 8 (2.57%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.93%) PaaS
8 5 (1.61%) Azure API Management
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Storage
8 5 (1.61%) npm
8 5 (1.61%) Yarn
9 4 (1.29%) Collibra
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.96%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.90%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (20.90%) Apache Arrow
1 65 (20.90%) Apache Ignite
1 65 (20.90%) Dremio
2 58 (18.65%) Data Lake
3 23 (7.40%) KDB
4 10 (3.22%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.89%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.57%) Data Mart
7 5 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.29%) Metadata
8 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.96%) Power BI
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.32%) QlikView
11 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.18%) Git
1 13 (4.18%) JIRA
2 8 (2.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.93%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.61%) Postman
4 5 (1.61%) webpack
5 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.64%) Babel
6 2 (0.64%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 222 (71.38%) Finance
2 186 (59.81%) Front Office
3 152 (48.87%) Banking
4 110 (35.37%) Investment Banking
5 52 (16.72%) Social Skills
6 23 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.86%) Back Office
8 6 (1.93%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.93%) Wholesale Banking
9 5 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.29%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.96%) French Language
12 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.32%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 131 (42.12%) Developer
2 73 (23.47%) Software Engineer
3 64 (20.58%) Analyst
4 57 (18.33%) Senior
5 53 (17.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 46 (14.79%) Business Analyst
7 44 (14.15%) Finance Manager
8 42 (13.50%) Lead
9 40 (12.86%) Java Developer
10 34 (10.93%) .NET Developer
10 34 (10.93%) Senior Developer
11 28 (9.00%) Financial Analyst
12 27 (8.68%) .NET Software Engineer
12 27 (8.68%) Python Engineer
12 27 (8.68%) Python Software Engineer
13 26 (8.36%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (8.36%) Software Asset Manager
13 26 (8.36%) Software Manager
14 25 (8.04%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.83%) gRPC
1 71 (22.83%) Pandas
1 71 (22.83%) Protocol Buffers
2 64 (20.58%) NumPy
2 64 (20.58%) SciPy
3 59 (18.97%) React
4 39 (12.54%) .NET
5 26 (8.36%) Redux
6 22 (7.07%) .NET Core
6 22 (7.07%) FIX Protocol
7 20 (6.43%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.79%) Vue
9 16 (5.14%) CSS
10 15 (4.82%) HTML
11 12 (3.86%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (3.54%) Middleware
13 8 (2.57%) Material-UI
13 8 (2.57%) Rendezvous
14 6 (1.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 166 (53.38%) Fixed Income
2 161 (51.77%) Derivative
3 149 (47.91%) Equities
4 123 (39.55%) Hedge funds
5 33 (10.61%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.86%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.54%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.57%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.25%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.29%) Pricing Data
14 3 (0.96%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.96%) PMI
15 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.72%) Unix
2 19 (6.11%) Linux
3 9 (2.89%) Windows
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (57.88%) Agile
2 137 (44.05%) Asset Management
3 116 (37.30%) Software Engineering
4 114 (36.66%) Investment Management
5 47 (15.11%) Analytics
5 47 (15.11%) Fintech
6 41 (13.18%) TDD
7 38 (12.22%) DevOps
8 35 (11.25%) Low Latency
9 34 (10.93%) Electronic Trading
9 34 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (10.29%) Line Management
11 31 (9.97%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (9.32%) Machine Learning
13 27 (8.68%) Artificial Intelligence
14 23 (7.40%) Product Management
15 22 (7.07%) E-Commerce
15 22 (7.07%) Greeks
15 22 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 20 (6.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 135 (43.41%) Python
2 128 (41.16%) Java
3 125 (40.19%) JavaScript
4 108 (34.73%) TypeScript
5 53 (17.04%) SQL
6 47 (15.11%) C#
7 13 (4.18%) C++
8 9 (2.89%) Perl
9 6 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.93%) Ruby
9 6 (1.93%) Scala
10 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.61%) VBA
11 2 (0.64%) VB
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.32%) VBScript
12 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (6.11%) Degree
2 11 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.57%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.96%) CCNA
5 3 (0.96%) CISA
5 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.96%) CISM
5 3 (0.96%) CISSP
5 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.93%) QA
2 28 (9.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.93%) MiFID
4 5 (1.61%) SEPA
5 4 (1.29%) GAAP
6 2 (0.64%) EMIR
7 1 (0.32%) COREP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.32%) P3O
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.29%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.29%) Ansible
3 2 (0.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.32%) Control-M
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.43%) Bloomberg
3 15 (4.82%) Murex
4 11 (3.54%) BISAM
4 11 (3.54%) ION Trading
4 11 (3.54%) Oracle
4 11 (3.54%) TIBCO
5 9 (2.89%) Solace
6 5 (1.61%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.96%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (0.96%) Calypso
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco
8 3 (0.96%) IBM
8 3 (0.96%) Okta
8 3 (0.96%) Qualys
8 3 (0.96%) SAP
8 3 (0.96%) Tradeweb
8 3 (0.96%) VMware