Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in the UK excluding London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 652 682
Rank change year-on-year +84 +30 +128
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 18 116 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.47% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 24
10th Percentile - £29,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £71,875
90th Percentile - - £75,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £113,750 £105,000
% change year-on-year +1.10% +8.33% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,567 24,734 24,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.10% 32.56% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,954 15,363 10,839
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK 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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK excluding London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK excluding London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK excluding London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 of England +58 9 - - 309
North West +20 9 - - 134
South East +65 3 - - 504
South West +82 2 £80,000 +90.41% 178
Scotland +77 2 - - 61
Midlands +67 2 £65,000 +103.13% 285
West Midlands +60 2 £65,000 +103.13% 152
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) GemFire
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) NetSuite
1 2 (11.11%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) KDB
3 3 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (16.67%) InterSystems Cache
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (16.67%) Redis
3 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) MSTest
1 3 (16.67%) NUnit
1 3 (16.67%) SpecFlow
1 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (50.00%) Law
3 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Front Office
5 4 (22.22%) Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (11.11%) Legal
7 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 3 (16.67%) Java Server Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Finance Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Middleware
2 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
2 5 (27.78%) Spring
3 4 (22.22%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (22.22%) Rendezvous
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) CSS3
4 3 (16.67%) Electron
4 3 (16.67%) Highcharts JS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 3 (16.67%) JSON
4 3 (16.67%) Kafka
4 3 (16.67%) LESS
4 3 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (16.67%) Reactive Extensions
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) RxJS
4 3 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Derivative
2 7 (38.89%) Equities
2 7 (38.89%) Fixed Income
3 6 (33.33%) Credit Derivative
4 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
5 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Electronic Trading
1 7 (38.89%) Low Latency
2 6 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) OO
2 6 (33.33%) OOP
2 6 (33.33%) SDLC
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) ERP
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
5 3 (16.67%) Business Development
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 4 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Solace
1 7 (38.89%) TIBCO
2 5 (27.78%) Bloomberg
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Sage
4 1 (5.56%) Alteryx