Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 379 507
Rank change year-on-year +62 +128 -65
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 452 681 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 1.94% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 397 554 506
10th Percentile £85,000 £60,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £98,750 £77,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £111,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +11.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £147,500 £142,500 £126,875
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +54.55% -4.35% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +65 448 £115,000 +2.22% 279
London +36 434 £115,000 - 267
Work from Home +109 283 £115,000 +2.22% 79
UK excluding London +105 15 £85,000 +54.55% 17
North of England +87 5 - - 3
North West +36 5 - - 2
South East +93 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +34 3 £90,000 +20.00% 5
South West +79 2 £80,000 +100.00% 2
Midlands +60 2 £65,000 +103.13% 2
West Midlands +50 2 £65,000 +103.13% 2

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 132 (29.20%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (24.12%) Apache
3 7 (1.55%) Confluence
4 5 (1.11%) GemFire
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.22%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 161 (35.62%) AWS
2 132 (29.20%) dbt
3 106 (23.45%) Snowflake
4 69 (15.27%) GCP
5 35 (7.74%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (7.52%) Dagster
7 14 (3.10%) Azure
8 6 (1.33%) SaaS
9 4 (0.88%) OpenShift
9 4 (0.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.22%) Datadog
11 1 (0.22%) npm
11 1 (0.22%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) HTTP
1 2 (0.44%) Telnet
2 1 (0.22%) Multicast
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (40.93%) Data Lake
2 133 (29.42%) Apache Arrow
3 132 (29.20%) Amazon Athena
3 132 (29.20%) Apache Iceberg
3 132 (29.20%) Dremio
4 76 (16.81%) Apache Ignite
5 32 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.77%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.11%) Tick Data
9 4 (0.88%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.88%) KDB
9 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.88%) Redis
10 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.66%) Power BI
10 3 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Git
1 10 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.77%) Gradle
3 7 (1.55%) JIRA
4 6 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.66%) AppScan
7 3 (0.66%) MSTest
7 3 (0.66%) NUnit
7 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 374 (82.74%) Finance
2 323 (71.46%) Front Office
3 183 (40.49%) Banking
4 145 (32.08%) Investment Banking
5 35 (7.74%) Social Skills
6 22 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.55%) Law
8 6 (1.33%) Games
9 5 (1.11%) Back Office
9 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.66%) Advertising
10 3 (0.66%) French Language
10 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 152 (33.63%) Software Engineer
2 148 (32.74%) Developer
3 134 (29.65%) AWS Engineer
4 132 (29.20%) AWS Software Engineer
5 94 (20.80%) Java Engineer
6 90 (19.91%) Java Software Engineer
7 85 (18.81%) Python Engineer
7 85 (18.81%) Python Software Engineer
8 74 (16.37%) Senior
9 67 (14.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 62 (13.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 61 (13.50%) AWS Developer
12 53 (11.73%) Java Developer
12 53 (11.73%) Senior Java Engineer
12 53 (11.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 52 (11.50%) Analyst
14 44 (9.73%) Business Analyst
15 43 (9.51%) Lead
16 40 (8.85%) Product Manager
17 39 (8.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (22.12%) NumPy
1 100 (22.12%) Pandas
1 100 (22.12%) SciPy
2 77 (17.04%) gRPC
3 73 (16.15%) Protocol Buffers
4 66 (14.60%) PySpark
5 53 (11.73%) React
6 36 (7.96%) AngularJS
7 31 (6.86%) Node.js
7 31 (6.86%) Vue
8 18 (3.98%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (3.98%) Redux
9 15 (3.32%) HTML
9 15 (3.32%) HTML5
9 15 (3.32%) Middleware
10 14 (3.10%) CSS
10 14 (3.10%) CSS3
11 11 (2.43%) RESTful
12 10 (2.21%) GraphQL
12 10 (2.21%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 313 (69.25%) Equities
2 308 (68.14%) Fixed Income
3 269 (59.51%) Derivative
4 256 (56.64%) Hedge funds
5 62 (13.72%) Product Ownership
6 40 (8.85%) Pricing Data
7 33 (7.30%) Algorithms
8 18 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.65%) Cloud Native
11 11 (2.43%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.21%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
14 6 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
15 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.86%) Linux
2 28 (6.19%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.10%) Unix
4 6 (1.33%) Windows
5 2 (0.44%) CentOS
5 2 (0.44%) Rocky
5 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Debian
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (68.36%) Agile
2 221 (48.89%) Investment Management
3 170 (37.61%) Asset Management
4 166 (36.73%) Software Engineering
5 158 (34.96%) Migration
6 143 (31.64%) Roadmaps
7 120 (26.55%) Data Management
8 114 (25.22%) Data Governance
9 112 (24.78%) Regulatory Compliance
10 61 (13.50%) Order Management
11 56 (12.39%) Risk Management
12 53 (11.73%) Fintech
13 50 (11.06%) Analytics
14 47 (10.40%) Low Latency
15 35 (7.74%) Front End Development
16 34 (7.52%) Algorithmic Trading
17 33 (7.30%) Electronic Trading
18 29 (6.42%) Portfolio Management
19 28 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
19 28 (6.19%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 170 (37.61%) Java
2 155 (34.29%) Python
3 127 (28.10%) JavaScript
4 118 (26.11%) TypeScript
5 66 (14.60%) SQL
6 30 (6.64%) C++
7 20 (4.42%) C#
8 4 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.88%) Rust
9 3 (0.66%) Bash
10 2 (0.44%) Go
10 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 56 (12.39%) Degree
2 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.66%) GIAC
3 3 (0.66%) PhD
4 2 (0.44%) ACCA
4 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.22%) CISM
5 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.22%) MBA
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.22%) PMP
5 1 (0.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.61%) MiFID
2 11 (2.43%) QA
3 7 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.66%) SLA
5 2 (0.44%) EMIR
5 2 (0.44%) GDPR
5 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (0.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
1 5 (1.11%) Puppet
2 4 (0.88%) Grafana
3 3 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.44%) Ansible
4 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (2.65%) Oracle
2 8 (1.77%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.55%) Bloomberg
4 6 (1.33%) Murex
4 6 (1.33%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.88%) Databricks
6 4 (0.88%) Solace
7 3 (0.66%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.44%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.44%) Calypso
8 2 (0.44%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.44%) Currenex
8 2 (0.44%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.44%) Reuters
8 2 (0.44%) Sage
8 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.44%) Splunk
8 2 (0.44%) Varonis