Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 329 476
Rank change year-on-year -12 +147 -28
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 399 721 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 2.40% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 341 629 448
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +7.14% -

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 18,271 30,096 38,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.77% 34.04% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,369 20,900 20,691
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
London +6 384 £115,000 - 487
North of England +46 7 - - 88
North West +6 7 - - 38
South East +70 3 - - 315
South West +81 2 £80,000 +90.41% 47
West Midlands +62 2 £65,000 +103.13% 41
Midlands +58 2 £65,000 +103.13% 76
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 134 (33.58%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (22.81%) Apache
3 5 (1.25%) GemFire
4 2 (0.50%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 164 (41.10%) AWS
2 134 (33.58%) dbt
3 88 (22.06%) Snowflake
4 74 (18.55%) GCP
5 16 (4.01%) Azure
6 12 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (3.01%) Dagster
7 7 (1.75%) SaaS
8 4 (1.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.25%) npm
10 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) HTTP
1 2 (0.50%) Telnet
2 1 (0.25%) Multicast
2 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (35.84%) Data Lake
2 135 (33.83%) Apache Arrow
3 134 (33.58%) Amazon Athena
3 134 (33.58%) Apache Iceberg
3 134 (33.58%) Dremio
4 58 (14.54%) Apache Ignite
5 55 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.01%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.75%) KDB
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.00%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) Tick Data
11 3 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (2.76%) Git
2 8 (2.01%) Gradle
3 7 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.75%) MSTest
5 3 (0.75%) NUnit
5 3 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.50%) JIRA
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.25%) AppScan
7 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 323 (80.95%) Finance
2 287 (71.93%) Front Office
3 164 (41.10%) Banking
4 127 (31.83%) Investment Banking
5 41 (10.28%) Social Skills
6 22 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.26%) Law
8 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.50%) Games
9 4 (1.00%) Back Office
9 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.75%) French Language
11 2 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 168 (42.11%) Developer
2 158 (39.60%) Software Engineer
3 135 (33.83%) AWS Engineer
4 134 (33.58%) AWS Software Engineer
5 99 (24.81%) Java Engineer
6 95 (23.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 92 (23.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (22.56%) Python Engineer
8 90 (22.56%) Python Software Engineer
9 81 (20.30%) AWS Developer
10 68 (17.04%) Senior
11 59 (14.79%) Java Developer
12 55 (13.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 53 (13.28%) Senior Java Engineer
14 52 (13.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 49 (12.28%) Python Developer
16 46 (11.53%) Lead
17 40 (10.03%) Software Developer
18 33 (8.27%) Java Software Developer
19 32 (8.02%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (25.81%) Pandas
2 102 (25.56%) NumPy
2 102 (25.56%) SciPy
3 78 (19.55%) React
4 59 (14.79%) gRPC
5 58 (14.54%) AngularJS
6 55 (13.78%) Node.js
6 55 (13.78%) Protocol Buffers
7 54 (13.53%) Vue
8 44 (11.03%) PySpark
9 25 (6.27%) Redux
10 20 (5.01%) FIX Protocol
11 18 (4.51%) Middleware
12 15 (3.76%) HTML
12 15 (3.76%) HTML5
13 14 (3.51%) CSS
13 14 (3.51%) CSS3
14 11 (2.76%) Kafka
14 11 (2.76%) RESTful
15 10 (2.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 270 (67.67%) Equities
2 267 (66.92%) Fixed Income
3 205 (51.38%) Derivative
4 189 (47.37%) Hedge funds
5 44 (11.03%) Pricing Data
6 30 (7.52%) Algorithms
7 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.26%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.01%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.76%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.76%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.51%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.00%) CMDB
13 4 (1.00%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.27%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (1.00%) Windows
4 2 (0.50%) CentOS
4 2 (0.50%) Rocky
4 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) Debian
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (65.91%) Agile
2 199 (49.87%) Investment Management
3 173 (43.36%) Software Engineering
4 151 (37.84%) Asset Management
5 115 (28.82%) Data Management
6 112 (28.07%) Migration
7 94 (23.56%) Roadmaps
8 88 (22.06%) Data Governance
8 88 (22.06%) Regulatory Compliance
9 78 (19.55%) Risk Management
10 75 (18.80%) Fintech
11 54 (13.53%) Order Management
12 47 (11.78%) Performance Attribution
13 42 (10.53%) Low Latency
14 34 (8.52%) Electronic Trading
15 33 (8.27%) Algorithmic Trading
16 30 (7.52%) Analytics
17 24 (6.02%) TDD
18 22 (5.51%) Multithreading
18 22 (5.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 164 (41.10%) Java
2 155 (38.85%) Python
3 135 (33.83%) JavaScript
4 125 (31.33%) TypeScript
5 65 (16.29%) SQL
6 26 (6.52%) C++
7 22 (5.51%) C#
8 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.00%) Rust
9 3 (0.75%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) COBOL
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (7.27%) Degree
2 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.00%) PhD
4 3 (0.75%) GIAC
5 2 (0.50%) ACCA
5 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.50%) CISM
5 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.25%) CISA
6 1 (0.25%) CRISC
6 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.25%) MBA
6 1 (0.25%) PMP
6 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.03%) MiFID
2 11 (2.76%) QA
3 7 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
5 1 (0.25%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.00%) Grafana
2 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.50%) Puppet
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (2.76%) Oracle
2 8 (2.01%) TIBCO
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.50%) Bloomberg
4 6 (1.50%) Solace
5 4 (1.00%) Databricks
5 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.50%) Sage
7 2 (0.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.25%) FXall
8 1 (0.25%) Murex
8 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.25%) Reuters
8 1 (0.25%) SAP
8 1 (0.25%) VMware