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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 373 509
Rank change year-on-year +34 +136 -56
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 454 718 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.72% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 2.04% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 397 592 481
10th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £147,500 £142,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £155,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +45.45% -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 19,436 35,193 43,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.52% 35.47% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,068 23,064 23,448
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,015
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,000
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 11 May 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 11 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
England +25 451 £115,000 +2.22% 464
London +33 437 £115,000 - 442
Work from Home +73 301 £115,000 - 154
UK excluding London +81 15 £80,000 +45.45% 139
North of England +66 5 - - 5
North West +5 5 - - 3
South East +81 3 - - 115
Midlands +65 3 £65,000 +103.13% 4
West Midlands +60 3 £65,000 +103.13% 4
South West +68 2 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Northern Ireland +38 2 £90,000 +20.00% 7

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
1 144 (31.72%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (24.45%) Apache
3 6 (1.32%) Confluence
4 5 (1.10%) GemFire
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.22%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.76%) Orchestrade
2 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (38.55%) AWS
2 144 (31.72%) dbt
3 108 (23.79%) Snowflake
4 82 (18.06%) GCP
5 35 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (7.49%) Dagster
7 15 (3.30%) Azure
8 7 (1.54%) 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%) Datadog
11 1 (0.22%) npm
11 1 (0.22%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.22%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.22%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) HTTP
1 2 (0.44%) Telnet
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (41.19%) Data Lake
2 145 (31.94%) Apache Arrow
3 144 (31.72%) Amazon Athena
3 144 (31.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 144 (31.72%) Dremio
4 78 (17.18%) Apache Ignite
5 44 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.76%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.88%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.88%) KDB
9 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.88%) Redis
9 4 (0.88%) Tick Data
10 3 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.66%) Power BI
10 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Git
2 9 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.76%) Gradle
4 6 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (1.32%) JIRA
5 5 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.66%) MSTest
7 3 (0.66%) NUnit
7 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.44%) AppScan
8 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 376 (82.82%) Finance
2 330 (72.69%) Front Office
3 184 (40.53%) Banking
4 146 (32.16%) Investment Banking
5 36 (7.93%) Social Skills
6 20 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.54%) Law
8 6 (1.32%) Back Office
8 6 (1.32%) Games
9 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.66%) Advertising
11 3 (0.66%) French Language
11 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.22%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Retail
13 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (36.56%) Software Engineer
2 155 (34.14%) Developer
3 146 (32.16%) AWS Engineer
4 144 (31.72%) AWS Software Engineer
5 100 (22.03%) Java Engineer
6 96 (21.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 93 (20.48%) Python Engineer
7 93 (20.48%) Python Software Engineer
8 80 (17.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 76 (16.74%) Senior
10 71 (15.64%) AWS Developer
11 64 (14.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 55 (12.11%) Java Developer
12 55 (12.11%) Senior Java Engineer
12 55 (12.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 45 (9.91%) Lead
14 43 (9.47%) Python Developer
15 40 (8.81%) Analyst
16 39 (8.59%) Software Developer
17 36 (7.93%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (24.67%) NumPy
1 112 (24.67%) Pandas
1 112 (24.67%) SciPy
2 79 (17.40%) gRPC
3 75 (16.52%) Protocol Buffers
4 66 (14.54%) PySpark
5 65 (14.32%) React
6 46 (10.13%) AngularJS
7 43 (9.47%) Node.js
8 42 (9.25%) Vue
9 21 (4.63%) Redux
10 17 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (3.30%) HTML
11 15 (3.30%) HTML5
11 15 (3.30%) Middleware
12 14 (3.08%) CSS
12 14 (3.08%) CSS3
13 11 (2.42%) RESTful
14 10 (2.20%) Kafka
14 10 (2.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 316 (69.60%) Equities
2 312 (68.72%) Fixed Income
3 264 (58.15%) Derivative
4 248 (54.63%) Hedge funds
5 52 (11.45%) Product Ownership
6 42 (9.25%) Pricing Data
7 31 (6.83%) Algorithms
8 19 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.08%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.64%) Cloud Native
11 11 (2.42%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.20%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
15 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
16 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
16 4 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.95%) Linux
2 18 (3.96%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.86%) Unix
4 5 (1.10%) 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
1 312 (68.72%) Agile
2 225 (49.56%) Investment Management
3 180 (39.65%) Software Engineering
4 175 (38.55%) Asset Management
5 158 (34.80%) Migration
6 133 (29.30%) Roadmaps
7 120 (26.43%) Data Management
8 114 (25.11%) Data Governance
9 112 (24.67%) Regulatory Compliance
10 67 (14.76%) Risk Management
11 66 (14.54%) Fintech
12 61 (13.44%) Order Management
13 42 (9.25%) Analytics
14 41 (9.03%) Low Latency
15 37 (8.15%) Performance Attribution
16 32 (7.05%) Electronic Trading
17 31 (6.83%) Algorithmic Trading
18 26 (5.73%) Front End Development
19 22 (4.85%) Multithreading
19 22 (4.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 175 (38.55%) Java
2 166 (36.56%) Python
3 142 (31.28%) JavaScript
4 133 (29.30%) TypeScript
5 67 (14.76%) SQL
6 28 (6.17%) C++
7 20 (4.41%) 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 49 (10.79%) Degree
2 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.10%) PhD
4 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.66%) GIAC
6 2 (0.44%) ACCA
6 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.22%) CISM
7 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.22%) MBA
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.56%) MiFID
2 12 (2.64%) QA
3 7 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.44%) EMIR
5 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.44%) SEPA
5 2 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.88%) Grafana
1 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
1 4 (0.88%) Puppet
2 3 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.44%) Ansible
3 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (3.08%) Oracle
2 8 (1.76%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.32%) Bloomberg
3 6 (1.32%) Murex
3 6 (1.32%) TIBCO
4 4 (0.88%) Atlassian
4 4 (0.88%) Databricks
4 4 (0.88%) Solace
5 3 (0.66%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.44%) Avaloq
6 2 (0.44%) Calypso
6 2 (0.44%) Charles River
6 2 (0.44%) Cloudera
6 2 (0.44%) Currenex
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.44%) Sage
6 2 (0.44%) Splunk
6 2 (0.44%) Varonis
6 2 (0.44%) VMware