Foreign Exchange (FX) Job Trends in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 332 387
Rank change year-on-year -81 +55 +32
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 221 393 411
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.88% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 2.32% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 121 344 356
10th Percentile £51,250 £78,425 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £94,688 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £152,500 £153,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,560 16,945 23,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.07% 37.88% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,066 7,958 17,917
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Foreign Exchange (FX) job vacancy trend in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -83 171 £110,000 -4.35% 52
South East +32 22 £52,500 -41.67% 25
Midlands +14 12 £50,000 -2.44% 1
West Midlands +23 11 £50,000 -2.44%
North of England +7 10 £50,000 -13.04% 1
North West +19 9 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East of England +21 5 £70,000 -36.36%
South West - 1 £50,000 - 4
North East - 1 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 - 1
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 28 (12.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.33%) Apache
3 5 (2.26%) Confluence
4 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (11.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.90%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.62%) NetSuite
2 8 (3.62%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.81%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.81%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.45%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.98%) AWS
2 36 (16.29%) Azure
3 28 (12.67%) dbt
4 18 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.33%) GCP
5 14 (6.33%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.43%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.71%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.36%) Serverless
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.90%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (0.90%) Figma
11 2 (0.90%) SaaS
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.79%) Cisco Firepower
1 15 (6.79%) Firewall
2 14 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (6.33%) LAN
2 14 (6.33%) WAN
2 14 (6.33%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (4.52%) Multicast
4 2 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.45%) Junos
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.67%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (12.67%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (12.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (12.67%) Dremio
2 14 (6.33%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (6.33%) Data Lake
2 14 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.52%) Power BI
4 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.81%) KDB
7 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.90%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.45%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.45%) Power Query
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.71%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) Gradle
3 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.36%) Selenium
4 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.45%) GCC
5 1 (0.45%) GDB
5 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 117 (52.94%) Finance
2 64 (28.96%) Front Office
3 56 (25.34%) Banking
3 56 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 44 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.76%) Financial Institution
5 26 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.88%) Billing
7 12 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.26%) Marketing
11 4 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.81%) Spanish Language
12 3 (1.36%) Back Office
12 3 (1.36%) Legal
12 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.90%) Retail
14 1 (0.45%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 71 (32.13%) Developer
2 42 (19.00%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (15.84%) Software Engineer
4 31 (14.03%) Lead
5 28 (12.67%) AWS Software Engineer
5 28 (12.67%) Python Engineer
5 28 (12.67%) Python Software Engineer
6 23 (10.41%) Senior
7 20 (9.05%) Architect
8 18 (8.14%) Python Developer
9 17 (7.69%) Analyst
10 15 (6.79%) Network Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) LAN Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.84%) React
2 28 (12.67%) NumPy
2 28 (12.67%) Pandas
2 28 (12.67%) SciPy
3 23 (10.41%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (8.14%) .NET
5 17 (7.69%) Node.js
6 15 (6.79%) Vue
7 14 (6.33%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.33%) gRPC
7 14 (6.33%) Protocol Buffers
8 10 (4.52%) REST
9 6 (2.71%) HTML
9 6 (2.71%) Kafka
10 5 (2.26%) CSS
11 4 (1.81%) RESTful
11 4 (1.81%) Spring
11 4 (1.81%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.81%) WebSockets
12 3 (1.36%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.62%) Equities
2 46 (20.81%) Fixed Income
3 33 (14.93%) Derivative
4 16 (7.24%) Hedge funds
5 15 (6.79%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.33%) Pricing Data
7 13 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (4.52%) Onboarding
9 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (3.17%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.26%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.81%) Eurex
14 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.90%) ASIC
15 2 (0.90%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.05%) Linux
2 9 (4.07%) Windows
3 5 (2.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.67%) Agile
2 57 (25.79%) Software Engineering
3 45 (20.36%) Fintech
4 36 (16.29%) Low Latency
4 36 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (15.84%) Electronic Trading
6 31 (14.03%) Asset Management
6 31 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (13.57%) Investment Management
8 29 (13.12%) Risk Management
9 28 (12.67%) Computer Science
9 28 (12.67%) Roadmaps
10 27 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (10.86%) AI
12 23 (10.41%) Budget Management
13 22 (9.95%) DevOps
14 20 (9.05%) Algorithmic Trading
14 20 (9.05%) High Availability
14 20 (9.05%) Technology Strategy
14 20 (9.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (24.43%) Java
2 51 (23.08%) Python
2 51 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 41 (18.55%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.31%) C#
5 18 (8.14%) SQL
6 12 (5.43%) C++
7 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.81%) Rust
9 3 (1.36%) VBA
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.45%) Korn
10 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (18.55%) Degree
2 22 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.33%) CCIE
3 14 (6.33%) CCNA
3 14 (6.33%) CCNP
3 14 (6.33%) CCSA
3 14 (6.33%) CCSE
3 14 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (4.52%) ACCA
4 10 (4.52%) CIMA
5 4 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.36%) ISEB
6 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.69%) PMO
2 14 (6.33%) SEPA
3 13 (5.88%) ISO 20022
4 9 (4.07%) TARGET2
5 4 (1.81%) QA
5 4 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.90%) EMIR
7 2 (0.90%) MiFID
8 1 (0.45%) FINRA
8 1 (0.45%) GAAP
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
2 1 (0.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (6.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (6.79%) Cisco
2 14 (6.33%) CheckPoint
2 14 (6.33%) Fortinet
3 12 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.43%) Oracle
4 6 (2.71%) Bloomberg
4 6 (2.71%) Sage
5 5 (2.26%) SAP
6 4 (1.81%) Avaloq
6 4 (1.81%) CQG
6 4 (1.81%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.81%) Patsystems
6 4 (1.81%) Reuters
6 4 (1.81%) Solace
6 4 (1.81%) Trayport
7 3 (1.36%) Databricks
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) IBM