Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 218 283
Rank change year-on-year +155 +65 -48
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 850 431 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.10% 1.59% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.99% 3.67% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 798 394 842
10th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £147,500 £137,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £115,000 £107,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +4.88% +2.50%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,507 11,733 38,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.02% 43.26% 51.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,645 9,002 16,218
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,171 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,938
90th Percentile £136,250 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

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)
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Central London -16 18 £95,000 -9.52% 17
East London +25 1 £75,000 - 2
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
1 515 (60.59%) Apache
2 485 (57.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.35%) nginx
3 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (4.59%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.65%) Ripple
3 5 (0.59%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.47%) Eagle PACE
5 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.12%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 684 (80.47%) AWS
2 513 (60.35%) dbt
3 463 (54.47%) Snowflake
4 296 (34.82%) GCP
5 81 (9.53%) Azure
6 76 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
8 74 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (4.59%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.29%) Serverless
11 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (0.47%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.47%) SaaS
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.24%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.65%) Internet
2 3 (0.35%) Firewall
2 3 (0.35%) LAN
2 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
2 3 (0.35%) WAN
2 3 (0.35%) Wireless
3 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 514 (60.47%) Apache Arrow
2 513 (60.35%) Dremio
3 495 (58.24%) Data Lake
4 477 (56.12%) Amazon Athena
4 477 (56.12%) Apache Ignite
5 39 (4.59%) Power BI
6 36 (4.24%) Tableau
7 28 (3.29%) Big Data
8 14 (1.65%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.94%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.82%) DB2
10 7 (0.82%) MySQL
11 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.24%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.12%) Data Mart
13 1 (0.12%) KDB
Development Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Jenkins
1 7 (0.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.47%) Gradle
3 3 (0.35%) GitLab
3 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.24%) Git
5 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.12%) NUnit
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) Protractor
5 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 789 (92.82%) Finance
2 684 (80.47%) Front Office
3 577 (67.88%) Banking
4 566 (66.59%) Investment Banking
5 60 (7.06%) Social Skills
6 34 (4.00%) Back Office
7 28 (3.29%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.12%) Legal
9 15 (1.76%) Law
10 11 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (0.71%) Publishing
12 5 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.47%) Advertising
14 2 (0.24%) International Banking
14 2 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.24%) Retail
14 2 (0.24%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.12%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 353 (41.53%) Software Engineer
2 280 (32.94%) Developer
3 253 (29.76%) Senior
4 215 (25.29%) Lead
5 196 (23.06%) AWS Engineer
6 193 (22.71%) AWS Software Engineer
7 188 (22.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 186 (21.88%) Python Engineer
8 186 (21.88%) Python Software Engineer
9 180 (21.18%) Java Engineer
10 179 (21.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 174 (20.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 117 (13.76%) Analyst
13 114 (13.41%) Lead Developer
14 113 (13.29%) Java Developer
15 111 (13.06%) Architect
15 111 (13.06%) Software Developer
16 106 (12.47%) Lead Software Developer
16 106 (12.47%) Solutions Architect
16 106 (12.47%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (56.94%) Pandas
2 483 (56.82%) gRPC
2 483 (56.82%) Protocol Buffers
3 475 (55.88%) NumPy
3 475 (55.88%) SciPy
4 93 (10.94%) AngularJS
5 76 (8.94%) React
6 74 (8.71%) .NET
7 72 (8.47%) PySpark
8 60 (7.06%) Vue
9 55 (6.47%) .NET Core
9 55 (6.47%) Redux
10 31 (3.65%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.24%) Spring
12 16 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
13 15 (1.76%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.76%) CSS
13 15 (1.76%) Hibernate
13 15 (1.76%) HTML
14 14 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 677 (79.65%) Equities
2 664 (78.12%) Fixed Income
3 649 (76.35%) Derivative
4 637 (74.94%) Hedge funds
5 97 (11.41%) Product Ownership
6 72 (8.47%) Pricing Data
7 14 (1.65%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.94%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.71%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (0.47%) 3D Graphics
12 4 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.47%) Ray Tracing
12 4 (0.47%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.47%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.35%) Linux
2 16 (1.88%) Unix
3 7 (0.82%) Windows
4 3 (0.35%) CentOS
4 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (76.94%) Agile
2 650 (76.47%) Asset Management
3 566 (66.59%) Software Engineering
4 482 (56.71%) Investment Management
5 205 (24.12%) Line Management
6 175 (20.59%) Greeks
7 109 (12.82%) Analytics
8 104 (12.24%) Fintech
9 79 (9.29%) Machine Learning
10 77 (9.06%) Migration
11 62 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 59 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
13 51 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (5.18%) Business Analysis
15 43 (5.06%) DevOps
15 43 (5.06%) Low Latency
15 43 (5.06%) Mentoring
16 39 (4.59%) TDD
17 38 (4.47%) Computer Science
17 38 (4.47%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 672 (79.06%) Python
2 577 (67.88%) Java
3 567 (66.71%) JavaScript
4 550 (64.71%) TypeScript
5 263 (30.94%) SQL
6 89 (10.47%) C#
7 20 (2.35%) C++
8 12 (1.41%) Ruby
8 12 (1.41%) Scala
9 8 (0.94%) Rust
9 8 (0.94%) VBA
10 7 (0.82%) C
11 5 (0.59%) Bash
12 4 (0.47%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.12%) Dart
15 1 (0.12%) Erlang
15 1 (0.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (5.41%) Degree
2 24 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 20 (2.35%) PhD
4 12 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.12%) ACCA
6 1 (0.12%) CFA
6 1 (0.12%) CIMA
6 1 (0.12%) CISA
6 1 (0.12%) CISM
6 1 (0.12%) MBA
6 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (21.29%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.41%) QA
3 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.12%) P3O
4 1 (0.12%) PMO
4 1 (0.12%) SEPA
4 1 (0.12%) SOC 1
4 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (2.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.35%) Control-M
3 2 (0.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 112 (13.18%) Bloomberg
2 65 (7.65%) Reuters
3 35 (4.12%) BISAM
4 6 (0.71%) FFastFill
4 6 (0.71%) Refinitiv
5 5 (0.59%) Murex
5 5 (0.59%) Oracle
6 3 (0.35%) Citrix
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.35%) VMware
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.24%) SAP
7 2 (0.24%) Sophis
7 2 (0.24%) StreamBase
8 1 (0.12%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.12%) Planview
8 1 (0.12%) Progress
8 1 (0.12%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.12%) Sun
8 1 (0.12%) Sybase