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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 67 222
Rank change year-on-year -43 +155 +65
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 391 854 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.98% 3.82% 1.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.62% 9.39% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 329 801 401
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +4.88%

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 5,908 9,095 12,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.08% 40.73% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 6,170 9,230
10th Percentile £40,500 £38,750 £43,449
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £126,250
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -15.38% +4.00%

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 20 July 2025.

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 20 July 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
Central London +57 35 £115,000 +24.32% 34
East London -16 1 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 189 (48.34%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (28.64%) Apache
3 5 (1.28%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) GemFire
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.05%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 223 (57.03%) AWS
2 189 (48.34%) dbt
3 113 (28.90%) Snowflake
4 109 (27.88%) GCP
5 13 (3.32%) Azure
6 11 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.81%) Dagster
7 4 (1.02%) SaaS
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.51%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.26%) npm
9 1 (0.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.77%) Multicast
2 2 (0.51%) HTTP
2 2 (0.51%) Telnet
3 1 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (48.34%) Amazon Athena
1 189 (48.34%) Apache Arrow
1 189 (48.34%) Apache Iceberg
1 189 (48.34%) Dremio
2 89 (22.76%) Data Lake
3 88 (22.51%) PostgreSQL
4 80 (20.46%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (2.05%) Oracle Database
5 8 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.53%) KDB
7 5 (1.28%) Kdb+
7 5 (1.28%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.02%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.02%) Tick Data
9 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.51%) MySQL
9 2 (0.51%) Power BI
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.58%) Git
2 8 (2.05%) Gradle
3 5 (1.28%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 307 (78.52%) Finance
2 275 (70.33%) Front Office
3 190 (48.59%) Banking
4 144 (36.83%) Investment Banking
5 38 (9.72%) Social Skills
6 26 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.30%) Law
9 8 (2.05%) Back Office
10 6 (1.53%) Japanese Language
11 5 (1.28%) Games
12 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.77%) French Language
14 1 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 222 (56.78%) Software Engineer
2 201 (51.41%) Developer
3 189 (48.34%) AWS Engineer
3 189 (48.34%) AWS Software Engineer
4 140 (35.81%) Python Engineer
4 140 (35.81%) Python Software Engineer
5 134 (34.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 131 (33.50%) Java Engineer
7 126 (32.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 111 (28.39%) AWS Developer
9 99 (25.32%) Senior
10 81 (20.72%) Senior Java Engineer
11 79 (20.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (19.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 73 (18.67%) Python Developer
14 67 (17.14%) Java Developer
15 42 (10.74%) Java Software Developer
16 39 (9.97%) Software Developer
17 32 (8.18%) Snowflake Developer
17 32 (8.18%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (41.18%) Pandas
2 157 (40.15%) NumPy
2 157 (40.15%) SciPy
3 109 (27.88%) React
4 88 (22.51%) AngularJS
4 88 (22.51%) Node.js
5 87 (22.25%) Vue
6 84 (21.48%) gRPC
7 80 (20.46%) Protocol Buffers
8 43 (11.00%) PySpark
9 27 (6.91%) Redux
10 22 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (3.07%) Web Services
12 11 (2.81%) Middleware
13 8 (2.05%) HTML
13 8 (2.05%) HTML5
14 7 (1.79%) CSS
14 7 (1.79%) CSS3
14 7 (1.79%) Kafka
14 7 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 253 (64.71%) Equities
2 244 (62.40%) Fixed Income
3 152 (38.87%) Derivative
4 140 (35.81%) Hedge funds
5 70 (17.90%) Pricing Data
6 32 (8.18%) Algorithms
7 21 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.81%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.30%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.53%) CMDB
11 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.02%) Market Risk
13 3 (0.77%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.67%) Linux
2 10 (2.56%) Windows
3 8 (2.05%) Unix
4 2 (0.51%) CentOS
4 2 (0.51%) Rocky
4 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Debian
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (65.98%) Agile
2 241 (61.64%) Software Engineering
3 212 (54.22%) Asset Management
4 183 (46.80%) Investment Management
5 114 (29.16%) Fintech
6 107 (27.37%) Risk Management
7 89 (22.76%) Order Management
8 77 (19.69%) Performance Attribution
9 45 (11.51%) Data Management
10 35 (8.95%) Low Latency
11 33 (8.44%) Algorithmic Trading
11 33 (8.44%) Analytics
12 31 (7.93%) Electronic Trading
13 26 (6.65%) Migration
14 23 (5.88%) TDD
15 22 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (5.37%) Multithreading
17 20 (5.12%) User Experience
18 19 (4.86%) Computer Science
18 19 (4.86%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 212 (54.22%) Python
2 193 (49.36%) Java
3 189 (48.34%) JavaScript
4 183 (46.80%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.67%) SQL
6 28 (7.16%) C#
7 27 (6.91%) C++
8 4 (1.02%) Rust
8 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.77%) Bash
9 3 (0.77%) VBA
10 2 (0.51%) Go
10 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.26%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (6.91%) Degree
2 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.02%) PhD
4 3 (0.77%) CISM
4 3 (0.77%) GIAC
4 3 (0.77%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.26%) CISA
5 1 (0.26%) CRISC
5 1 (0.26%) MBA
5 1 (0.26%) PMP
5 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.07%) QA
2 9 (2.30%) MiFID
3 1 (0.26%) GRC
3 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.26%) NIST
3 1 (0.26%) SOC 1
3 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.28%) Grafana
2 3 (0.77%) Control-M
2 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (2.30%) Oracle
2 7 (1.79%) Bloomberg
3 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.77%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (0.77%) Calypso
5 3 (0.77%) Refinitiv
5 3 (0.77%) Splunk
6 2 (0.51%) FFastFill
6 2 (0.51%) ION Trading
6 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.51%) Reuters
6 2 (0.51%) SAP
6 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.26%) CQG
7 1 (0.26%) Murex
7 1 (0.26%) Patsystems
7 1 (0.26%) Solace
7 1 (0.26%) Trayport