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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 327 465
Rank change year-on-year -25 +138 -24
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 398 730 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.41% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 336 637 445
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £104,375 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £137,813 £142,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

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 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
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 30 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 30 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 +4 383 £115,000 - 293
North of England +57 7 - - 69
North West +14 7 - - 31
South East +68 3 - - 297
Midlands +84 2 £65,000 +103.13% 60
South West +68 2 £80,000 +90.41% 41
West Midlands +56 2 £65,000 +103.13% 32
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
1 130 (32.66%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (21.86%) Apache
3 5 (1.26%) GemFire
4 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.50%) Confluence
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) 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
1 160 (40.20%) AWS
2 130 (32.66%) dbt
3 84 (21.11%) Snowflake
4 73 (18.34%) GCP
5 16 (4.02%) Azure
6 11 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.76%) Dagster
7 7 (1.76%) SaaS
8 4 (1.01%) 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
1 133 (33.42%) Data Lake
2 131 (32.91%) Apache Arrow
3 130 (32.66%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (32.66%) Apache Iceberg
3 130 (32.66%) Dremio
4 55 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (13.57%) Apache Ignite
6 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.01%) KDB
7 8 (2.01%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.51%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.01%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.01%) Redis
10 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.01%) Tick Data
11 3 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.75%) Kdb+
11 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Git
2 8 (2.01%) Gradle
3 7 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.51%) 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
1 317 (79.65%) Finance
2 280 (70.35%) Front Office
3 165 (41.46%) Banking
4 124 (31.16%) Investment Banking
5 41 (10.30%) Social Skills
6 22 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.76%) Law
8 6 (1.51%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.51%) Games
8 6 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.01%) Back Office
9 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.75%) French Language
11 2 (0.50%) Japanese 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
1 172 (43.22%) Developer
2 155 (38.94%) Software Engineer
3 131 (32.91%) AWS Engineer
4 130 (32.66%) AWS Software Engineer
5 97 (24.37%) Java Engineer
6 96 (24.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 89 (22.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 87 (21.86%) Python Engineer
8 87 (21.86%) Python Software Engineer
9 81 (20.35%) AWS Developer
10 66 (16.58%) Senior
11 61 (15.33%) Java Developer
12 51 (12.81%) Senior Software Engineer
13 50 (12.56%) Senior Java Engineer
14 49 (12.31%) Python Developer
15 48 (12.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 47 (11.81%) Lead
17 41 (10.30%) Software Developer
18 34 (8.54%) Java Software Developer
19 32 (8.04%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.13%) Pandas
2 98 (24.62%) NumPy
2 98 (24.62%) SciPy
3 78 (19.60%) React
4 58 (14.57%) AngularJS
5 55 (13.82%) gRPC
5 55 (13.82%) Node.js
6 54 (13.57%) Vue
7 51 (12.81%) Protocol Buffers
8 43 (10.80%) PySpark
9 25 (6.28%) Redux
10 21 (5.28%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (4.77%) Middleware
12 15 (3.77%) HTML
12 15 (3.77%) HTML5
13 14 (3.52%) CSS
13 14 (3.52%) CSS3
14 12 (3.02%) Kafka
15 11 (2.76%) RESTful
16 10 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 261 (65.58%) Equities
2 258 (64.82%) Fixed Income
3 197 (49.50%) Derivative
4 179 (44.97%) Hedge funds
5 41 (10.30%) Pricing Data
6 32 (8.04%) Algorithms
7 21 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.27%) Cloud Native
9 12 (3.02%) Data Structures
9 12 (3.02%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.51%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.51%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.26%) CMDB
13 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.01%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.01%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.28%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) 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
1 257 (64.57%) Agile
2 190 (47.74%) Investment Management
3 172 (43.22%) Software Engineering
4 147 (36.93%) Asset Management
5 115 (28.89%) Data Management
6 105 (26.38%) Migration
7 88 (22.11%) Roadmaps
8 82 (20.60%) Data Governance
8 82 (20.60%) Regulatory Compliance
9 79 (19.85%) Risk Management
10 75 (18.84%) Fintech
11 56 (14.07%) Order Management
12 47 (11.81%) Performance Attribution
13 45 (11.31%) Low Latency
14 36 (9.05%) Algorithmic Trading
15 34 (8.54%) Electronic Trading
16 32 (8.04%) Analytics
17 24 (6.03%) Multithreading
17 24 (6.03%) TDD
18 22 (5.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 163 (40.95%) Java
2 152 (38.19%) Python
3 131 (32.91%) JavaScript
4 121 (30.40%) TypeScript
5 66 (16.58%) SQL
6 27 (6.78%) C++
7 23 (5.78%) C#
8 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.01%) Rust
9 3 (0.75%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 29 (7.29%) Degree
2 6 (1.51%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.01%) 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 39 (9.80%) MiFID
2 12 (3.02%) QA
3 7 (1.76%) 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 (1.01%) 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 12 (3.02%) Oracle
2 8 (2.01%) TIBCO
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.51%) Bloomberg
4 6 (1.51%) Solace
5 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.01%) Databricks
7 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.50%) Sage
8 2 (0.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.25%) FXall
9 1 (0.25%) Murex
9 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.25%) Reuters
9 1 (0.25%) SAP
9 1 (0.25%) VMware