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 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 360 460 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.71% 2.61% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.35% 7.83% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 400 524
10th Percentile £575 £600 £525
25th Percentile £675 £700 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £731
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +9.51% -2.60%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £850
90th Percentile - £900 £950
England median daily rate £760 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.34% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £98.75 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £102.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £106.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 4,898 5,873 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.86% 33.38% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,226 4,117 6,631
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £741
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 140 100
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £17.98
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.45 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.92 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -20.23% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.81 £50.38 £64.63
90th Percentile £65.03 £71.25 £85.33
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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
Central London +23 41 £656 -12.50% 133
South London 0 7 £738 -13.24% 2
East London - 2 £900 - 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 77 (21.39%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (14.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.11%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.56%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.56%) Sketch
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Aladdin
1 5 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.56%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.56%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.28%) Actimize
4 1 (0.28%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.28%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.28%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 123 (34.17%) AWS
2 77 (21.39%) dbt
3 58 (16.11%) GCP
4 51 (14.17%) Snowflake
5 35 (9.72%) Azure
6 9 (2.50%) npm
6 9 (2.50%) Yarn
7 8 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.94%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.39%) Dagster
9 5 (1.39%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.83%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.78%) Multicast
2 8 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.67%) Firewall
4 2 (0.56%) BGP
4 2 (0.56%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.56%) MPLS
4 2 (0.56%) Network Security
4 2 (0.56%) OSPF
4 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.28%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) SNMP
5 1 (0.28%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.28%) Telnet
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (21.39%) Amazon Athena
1 77 (21.39%) Apache Arrow
1 77 (21.39%) Apache Iceberg
1 77 (21.39%) Dremio
2 63 (17.50%) Data Lake
3 37 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (9.72%) Apache Ignite
5 16 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.22%) Data Mart
7 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.39%) KDB
9 5 (1.39%) Power BI
10 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.83%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.56%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.56%) Redis
12 2 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (11.39%) Git
2 15 (4.17%) JIRA
3 10 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.50%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.50%) webpack
5 5 (1.39%) GCC
5 5 (1.39%) GDB
6 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) Ant
7 3 (0.83%) Gradle
8 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.56%) git-flow
8 2 (0.56%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.56%) JUnit
8 2 (0.56%) PROIV
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) GitLab
9 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 285 (79.17%) Finance
2 216 (60.00%) Front Office
3 167 (46.39%) Banking
4 115 (31.94%) Investment Banking
5 91 (25.28%) Social Skills
6 58 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.78%) Back Office
9 6 (1.67%) International Banking
9 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Advertising
12 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (51.67%) Developer
2 114 (31.67%) Software Engineer
3 77 (21.39%) AWS Engineer
3 77 (21.39%) AWS Software Engineer
4 74 (20.56%) Senior
5 67 (18.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 60 (16.67%) Java Engineer
7 58 (16.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 56 (15.56%) AWS Developer
9 54 (15.00%) Python Developer
10 53 (14.72%) Python Engineer
10 53 (14.72%) Python Software Engineer
11 52 (14.44%) Java Developer
12 39 (10.83%) Analyst
13 35 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
14 34 (9.44%) Senior Developer
15 33 (9.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 33 (9.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (6.11%) C# Developer
17 21 (5.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.56%) React
2 77 (21.39%) NumPy
2 77 (21.39%) Pandas
3 75 (20.83%) SciPy
4 64 (17.78%) AngularJS
5 56 (15.56%) Vue
6 44 (12.22%) Protocol Buffers
7 43 (11.94%) Node.js
8 41 (11.39%) .NET
8 41 (11.39%) gRPC
9 37 (10.28%) FIX Protocol
10 30 (8.33%) Redux
11 26 (7.22%) Kafka
12 23 (6.39%) Middleware
13 22 (6.11%) ASP.NET
14 21 (5.83%) CSS
14 21 (5.83%) PySpark
15 16 (4.44%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.17%) Flask
16 15 (4.17%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 172 (47.78%) Fixed Income
2 156 (43.33%) Equities
3 124 (34.44%) Derivative
4 113 (31.39%) Hedge funds
5 30 (8.33%) Pricing Data
6 14 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.50%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.67%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.39%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.11%) Clustering
13 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.78%) Linux
2 17 (4.72%) Unix
3 16 (4.44%) Windows
4 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (54.72%) Agile
2 142 (39.44%) Software Engineering
3 113 (31.39%) Investment Management
4 105 (29.17%) Asset Management
5 58 (16.11%) Low Latency
6 54 (15.00%) Fintech
7 51 (14.17%) DevOps
7 51 (14.17%) Risk Management
8 48 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
9 46 (12.78%) Data Management
10 44 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (11.67%) Analytics
11 42 (11.67%) Migration
12 41 (11.39%) CI/CD
13 36 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (9.44%) Data Governance
15 32 (8.89%) Order Management
15 32 (8.89%) Regulatory Compliance
16 31 (8.61%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.22%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 150 (41.67%) Python
2 149 (41.39%) Java
3 126 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 112 (31.11%) TypeScript
5 69 (19.17%) C#
6 68 (18.89%) SQL
7 51 (14.17%) C++
8 14 (3.89%) Rust
9 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.11%) Ruby
12 2 (0.56%) Bash
12 2 (0.56%) C
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (6.11%) Degree
2 16 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.56%) CCNA
3 2 (0.56%) CCNP
3 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.83%) MiFID
2 10 (2.78%) EMIR
3 7 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.39%) QA
5 4 (1.11%) GDPR
6 3 (0.83%) Basel II
6 3 (0.83%) Basel III
7 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.56%) GAAP
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.56%) SEPA
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (7.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) FreeRADIUS
2 1 (0.28%) iptables
2 1 (0.28%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 25 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (1.39%) Control-M
3 5 (1.39%) Kibana
3 5 (1.39%) logstash
3 5 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) Grafana
5 2 (0.56%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.28%) Cacti
6 1 (0.28%) Graylog
6 1 (0.28%) Nagios
6 1 (0.28%) Netcool
6 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
6 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (6.94%) Oracle
2 17 (4.72%) Murex
3 13 (3.61%) Bloomberg
3 13 (3.61%) Solace
4 10 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.94%) Refinitiv
6 7 (1.94%) Reuters
7 6 (1.67%) TIBCO
8 5 (1.39%) IBM
9 4 (1.11%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.11%) Splunk
9 4 (1.11%) Wallstreet Suite
10 3 (0.83%) Calypso
10 3 (0.83%) Citrix
10 3 (0.83%) CQG
10 3 (0.83%) Nokia
10 3 (0.83%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.56%) Informatica