Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in the North of England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 357 373
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 +77
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 19 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.013% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.046% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51,250 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £57,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -42.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £105,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +7.32%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,313 4,389 5,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.22% 28.30% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 2,579 2,799
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £38,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.42% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,889 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the North of England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in the North of England.

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the North of England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
North West +21 19 £100,000 +73.91% 16
Foreign Exchange (FX)
England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) KDB
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (10.53%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.53%) Redis
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) MSTest
1 2 (10.53%) NUnit
1 2 (10.53%) SpecFlow
1 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Front Office
4 4 (21.05%) Law
5 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
5 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Java Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Financial Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (10.53%) Java Server Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Middleware
2 5 (26.32%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (26.32%) Rendezvous
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) CSS3
3 2 (10.53%) Electron
3 2 (10.53%) Highcharts JS
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) HTML5
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) LESS
3 2 (10.53%) NgRx
3 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (10.53%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (10.53%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) RxJS
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Derivative
1 6 (31.58%) Equities
1 6 (31.58%) Fixed Income
2 4 (21.05%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Electronic Trading
2 7 (36.84%) Low Latency
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (26.32%) SDLC
4 4 (21.05%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (21.05%) OO
4 4 (21.05%) OOP
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Use Case
5 3 (15.79%) Budgeting
5 3 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 3 (15.79%) Cash Management
5 3 (15.79%) Financial Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Automated Trading
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.79%) GAAP
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Bloomberg
1 7 (36.84%) Solace
1 7 (36.84%) TIBCO
2 6 (31.58%) SAP
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Alteryx
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle