Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 168 168
Rank change year-on-year +39 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 36 29 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.42% 0.77% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 2.26% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 25 25 75
10th Percentile £46,500 £81,250 £65,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £153,000 £187,500 £147,500
London median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year - +12.20% -8.89%

All Generic Skills
Central 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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,033 1,284 2,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 40.67% 33.94% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 692 982 1,796
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,397 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £56,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +44 35 £110,000 +15.79% 19
Lambeth - 1 £80,000 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) npm
3 1 (2.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Telnet
1 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) KDB
4 1 (2.78%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.78%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Gradle
1 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Investment Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Front Office
4 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Advertising
5 3 (8.33%) French Language
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) C# Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Release Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
7 2 (5.56%) React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (22.22%) Web Services
3 5 (13.89%) Middleware
4 3 (8.33%) React
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (5.56%) Django
5 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.78%) CSS
6 1 (2.78%) CSS3
6 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.78%) HTML5
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Algorithms
2 11 (30.56%) Fixed Income
3 9 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (19.44%) Equities
5 6 (16.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (11.11%) Derivative
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (5.56%) FPGA
9 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
9 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
9 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (2.78%) Social Media
9 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (2.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Unix
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) CentOS
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Rocky
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 8 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 7 (19.44%) Electronic Trading
4 6 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 6 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 6 (16.67%) Observability
4 6 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Market Making
6 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
7 3 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.33%) Garbage Collection
7 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) C#
1 11 (30.56%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) C++
4 5 (13.89%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) COBOL
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.56%) PhD
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Grafana
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Murex
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat