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 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 104 110 253
Rank change year-on-year +6 +143 +16
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 384 638 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.07% 2.68% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.92% 6.64% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 336 598 418
10th Percentile £85,000 £70,875 £62,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £82,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £138,750 £144,375 £135,000
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

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 5,552 9,615 15,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.37% 40.42% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,975 6,776 10,409
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,391
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
England 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 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 28 May 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 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
Central London +45 31 £110,000 +15.79% 32
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
1 134 (34.90%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (22.92%) Apache
3 2 (0.52%) Confluence
3 2 (0.52%) GemFire
3 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.08%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 163 (42.45%) AWS
2 134 (34.90%) dbt
3 88 (22.92%) Snowflake
4 74 (19.27%) GCP
5 15 (3.91%) Azure
6 12 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (3.13%) Dagster
7 4 (1.04%) SaaS
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.26%) npm
9 1 (0.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) HTTP
1 2 (0.52%) Telnet
2 1 (0.26%) Multicast
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (37.24%) Data Lake
2 135 (35.16%) Apache Arrow
3 134 (34.90%) Amazon Athena
3 134 (34.90%) Apache Iceberg
3 134 (34.90%) Dremio
4 55 (14.32%) Apache Ignite
4 55 (14.32%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.04%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.04%) KDB
7 4 (1.04%) Tick Data
8 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.52%) Kdb+
9 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.52%) MySQL
10 1 (0.26%) Redis
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.86%) Git
2 8 (2.08%) Gradle
3 6 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.52%) JIRA
6 1 (0.26%) AppScan
6 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 308 (80.21%) Finance
2 281 (73.18%) Front Office
3 163 (42.45%) Banking
4 126 (32.81%) Investment Banking
5 35 (9.11%) Social Skills
6 22 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.56%) Games
8 4 (1.04%) Back Office
8 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.78%) French Language
10 2 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.26%) Advertising
11 1 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (43.49%) Developer
2 157 (40.89%) Software Engineer
3 135 (35.16%) AWS Engineer
4 134 (34.90%) AWS Software Engineer
5 95 (24.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 93 (24.22%) Java Engineer
7 92 (23.96%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (23.44%) Python Engineer
8 90 (23.44%) Python Software Engineer
9 81 (21.09%) AWS Developer
10 67 (17.45%) Senior
11 58 (15.10%) Java Developer
12 54 (14.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 53 (13.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 52 (13.54%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 49 (12.76%) Python Developer
16 46 (11.98%) Lead
17 40 (10.42%) Software Developer
18 33 (8.59%) Java Software Developer
19 32 (8.33%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.82%) Pandas
2 102 (26.56%) NumPy
2 102 (26.56%) SciPy
3 77 (20.05%) React
4 59 (15.36%) gRPC
5 55 (14.32%) AngularJS
5 55 (14.32%) Node.js
5 55 (14.32%) Protocol Buffers
6 54 (14.06%) Vue
7 44 (11.46%) PySpark
8 25 (6.51%) Redux
9 16 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (3.13%) HTML
10 12 (3.13%) HTML5
10 12 (3.13%) Middleware
11 11 (2.86%) CSS
11 11 (2.86%) CSS3
11 11 (2.86%) RESTful
12 10 (2.60%) Web Services
12 10 (2.60%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 264 (68.75%) Equities
2 261 (67.97%) Fixed Income
3 198 (51.56%) Derivative
4 189 (49.22%) Hedge funds
5 44 (11.46%) Pricing Data
6 27 (7.03%) Algorithms
7 19 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.86%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.60%) Mobile App
11 8 (2.08%) Cloud Native
11 8 (2.08%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.04%) CMDB
12 4 (1.04%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.78%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.73%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
3 4 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) CentOS
4 2 (0.52%) Rocky
4 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Debian
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (68.23%) Agile
2 199 (51.82%) Investment Management
3 172 (44.79%) Software Engineering
4 151 (39.32%) Asset Management
5 113 (29.43%) Data Management
6 111 (28.91%) Migration
7 94 (24.48%) Roadmaps
8 88 (22.92%) Data Governance
8 88 (22.92%) Regulatory Compliance
9 78 (20.31%) Risk Management
10 74 (19.27%) Fintech
11 54 (14.06%) Order Management
12 47 (12.24%) Performance Attribution
13 36 (9.38%) Low Latency
14 30 (7.81%) Analytics
15 28 (7.29%) Electronic Trading
16 27 (7.03%) Algorithmic Trading
17 20 (5.21%) TDD
17 20 (5.21%) User Experience
18 19 (4.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 157 (40.89%) Java
2 153 (39.84%) Python
3 132 (34.38%) JavaScript
4 122 (31.77%) TypeScript
5 64 (16.67%) SQL
6 26 (6.77%) C++
7 17 (4.43%) C#
8 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.04%) Rust
9 3 (0.78%) Bash
10 2 (0.52%) Go
10 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) COBOL
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (5.99%) Degree
2 6 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.04%) PhD
4 3 (0.78%) GIAC
5 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.52%) CISM
5 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.26%) CISA
6 1 (0.26%) CRISC
6 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.26%) MBA
6 1 (0.26%) PMP
6 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.42%) MiFID
2 11 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (0.26%) GRC
3 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.26%) NIST
3 1 (0.26%) SLA
3 1 (0.26%) SOC 1
3 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.26%) Docker
1 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.04%) Grafana
2 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.52%) Puppet
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (1.56%) Oracle
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.04%) Databricks
3 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (0.78%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.52%) Splunk
5 2 (0.52%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.26%) FXall
6 1 (0.26%) Murex
6 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.26%) Reuters
6 1 (0.26%) SAP
6 1 (0.26%) VMware