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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 126 251
Rank change year-on-year +33 +125 -5
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 433 583 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.39% 2.47% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.76% 6.11% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 385 544 440
10th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £147,500 £145,000 £130,750
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £101,250
% change year-on-year +2.22% +11.11% -7.95%

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 5,580 9,540 15,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 43.67% 40.43% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,229 6,785 10,717
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £44,015
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,532 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £122,500
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 9 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 9 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 +38 37 £110,000 +15.79% 31
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
1 140 (32.33%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (24.02%) Apache
3 6 (1.39%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) GemFire
5 1 (0.23%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.23%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.23%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (39.26%) AWS
2 140 (32.33%) dbt
3 104 (24.02%) Snowflake
4 82 (18.94%) GCP
5 35 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (7.85%) Dagster
7 14 (3.23%) Azure
8 4 (0.92%) SaaS
9 3 (0.69%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.23%) Datadog
11 1 (0.23%) npm
11 1 (0.23%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) HTTP
1 2 (0.46%) Telnet
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (42.26%) Data Lake
2 141 (32.56%) Apache Arrow
3 140 (32.33%) Amazon Athena
3 140 (32.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 140 (32.33%) Dremio
4 71 (16.40%) Apache Ignite
5 44 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.92%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.92%) Tick Data
9 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.69%) KDB
9 3 (0.69%) Power BI
9 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.69%) Tableau
10 2 (0.46%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.46%) MySQL
10 2 (0.46%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (2.31%) Git
2 8 (1.85%) Gradle
3 6 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.39%) JIRA
4 4 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.46%) AppScan
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 356 (82.22%) Finance
2 320 (73.90%) Front Office
3 177 (40.88%) Banking
4 141 (32.56%) Investment Banking
5 31 (7.16%) Social Skills
6 20 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.39%) Back Office
7 6 (1.39%) Games
8 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.69%) Advertising
10 3 (0.69%) French Language
10 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (36.72%) Software Engineer
2 153 (35.33%) Developer
3 142 (32.79%) AWS Engineer
4 140 (32.33%) AWS Software Engineer
5 92 (21.25%) Java Engineer
5 92 (21.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 89 (20.55%) Python Engineer
6 89 (20.55%) Python Software Engineer
7 80 (18.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 71 (16.40%) AWS Developer
8 71 (16.40%) Senior
9 59 (13.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 54 (12.47%) Java Developer
11 51 (11.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 51 (11.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 45 (10.39%) Lead
13 43 (9.93%) Python Developer
14 40 (9.24%) Analyst
15 39 (9.01%) Software Developer
16 36 (8.31%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (24.94%) NumPy
1 108 (24.94%) Pandas
1 108 (24.94%) SciPy
2 75 (17.32%) gRPC
3 71 (16.40%) Protocol Buffers
4 66 (15.24%) PySpark
5 64 (14.78%) React
6 43 (9.93%) AngularJS
6 43 (9.93%) Node.js
7 42 (9.70%) Vue
8 21 (4.85%) Redux
9 15 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (2.77%) HTML
10 12 (2.77%) HTML5
11 11 (2.54%) CSS
11 11 (2.54%) CSS3
11 11 (2.54%) Middleware
11 11 (2.54%) RESTful
12 10 (2.31%) Web Services
12 10 (2.31%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 306 (70.67%) Equities
2 302 (69.75%) Fixed Income
3 253 (58.43%) Derivative
4 244 (56.35%) Hedge funds
5 52 (12.01%) Product Ownership
6 38 (8.78%) Pricing Data
7 28 (6.47%) Algorithms
8 18 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.23%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.92%) Market Risk
12 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.69%) CMDB
13 3 (0.69%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.69%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.08%) Linux
2 18 (4.16%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.85%) Unix
4 5 (1.15%) Windows
5 2 (0.46%) CentOS
5 2 (0.46%) Rocky
5 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (70.67%) Agile
2 221 (51.04%) Investment Management
3 173 (39.95%) Software Engineering
4 171 (39.49%) Asset Management
5 157 (36.26%) Migration
6 133 (30.72%) Roadmaps
7 117 (27.02%) Data Management
8 113 (26.10%) Data Governance
9 112 (25.87%) Regulatory Compliance
10 67 (15.47%) Risk Management
11 63 (14.55%) Fintech
12 61 (14.09%) Order Management
13 42 (9.70%) Analytics
14 37 (8.55%) Performance Attribution
15 35 (8.08%) Low Latency
16 28 (6.47%) Electronic Trading
17 26 (6.00%) Front End Development
18 25 (5.77%) Algorithmic Trading
19 19 (4.39%) Mathematics
19 19 (4.39%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 166 (38.34%) Java
2 160 (36.95%) Python
3 135 (31.18%) JavaScript
4 126 (29.10%) TypeScript
5 66 (15.24%) SQL
6 26 (6.00%) C++
7 15 (3.46%) C#
8 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.92%) Rust
9 3 (0.69%) Bash
10 2 (0.46%) Go
10 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 43 (9.93%) Degree
2 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.15%) PhD
4 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.69%) GIAC
6 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.23%) CISM
7 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.23%) MBA
7 1 (0.23%) PMP
7 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (13.16%) MiFID
2 12 (2.77%) QA
3 2 (0.46%) EMIR
3 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.46%) SEPA
3 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.46%) Docker
1 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.92%) Grafana
1 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
1 4 (0.92%) Puppet
2 2 (0.46%) Ansible
2 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (1.85%) Oracle
2 6 (1.39%) Murex
3 5 (1.15%) Bloomberg
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 4 (0.92%) Databricks
5 3 (0.69%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.46%) Avaloq
6 2 (0.46%) Calypso
6 2 (0.46%) Charles River
6 2 (0.46%) Cloudera
6 2 (0.46%) Currenex
6 2 (0.46%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.46%) Splunk
6 2 (0.46%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.46%) Varonis
6 2 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Refinitiv