Foreign Exchange (FX) Job Trends in Scotland

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 146 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 0.15% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.55% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £41,250 -
UK median annual salary £125,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 822 902 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.66% 27.54% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 294 415 679
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,100 £31,797
25th Percentile £30,063 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -7.60% +3.59%
75th Percentile £68,825 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £87,419
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Foreign Exchange (FX) job vacancy trend in Scotland

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Foreign Exchange (FX)

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Glasgow 0 4 - -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript