Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs with Work from Home Options

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 424 490
Rank change year-on-year +298 +66 -37
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 666 157 497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.38% 0.48% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.93% 1.23% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 648 151 289
10th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,774 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £115,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £192,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £106,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% +6.75% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Foreign Exchange (FX) trend for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 512 (76.88%) Apache
2 483 (72.52%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.60%) Eagle PACE
2 4 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 584 (87.69%) AWS
2 511 (76.73%) dbt
3 463 (69.52%) Snowflake
4 262 (39.34%) GCP
5 76 (11.41%) Amazon ECS
6 74 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (7.81%) Power Platform
9 46 (6.91%) Azure
10 12 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.35%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.90%) Serverless
13 5 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.60%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (0.30%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.30%) WhatsApp
16 1 (0.15%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.45%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) 3G
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) LTE
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) VSAT
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 511 (76.73%) Apache Arrow
1 511 (76.73%) Dremio
2 495 (74.32%) Data Lake
3 475 (71.32%) Amazon Athena
3 475 (71.32%) Apache Ignite
4 46 (6.91%) Power BI
5 36 (5.41%) Tableau
6 28 (4.20%) Big Data
7 6 (0.90%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.60%) DB2
9 3 (0.45%) Power Query
10 1 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (1.05%) JIRA
2 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.15%) Git
2 1 (0.15%) Gradle
2 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.15%) Protractor
2 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 636 (95.50%) Finance
2 586 (87.99%) Front Office
3 525 (78.83%) Banking
4 515 (77.33%) Investment Banking
5 44 (6.61%) Social Skills
6 28 (4.20%) Back Office
7 13 (1.95%) Law
8 12 (1.80%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.75%) Games
11 5 (0.75%) Marketing
12 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.30%) International Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Retail
15 1 (0.15%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.15%) Legal
15 1 (0.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 326 (48.95%) Software Engineer
2 219 (32.88%) Senior
3 196 (29.43%) Lead
4 193 (28.98%) AWS Engineer
4 193 (28.98%) AWS Software Engineer
5 187 (28.08%) Senior Software Engineer
6 186 (27.93%) Python Engineer
6 186 (27.93%) Python Software Engineer
7 185 (27.78%) Developer
8 180 (27.03%) Java Engineer
9 179 (26.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 148 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 111 (16.67%) Software Developer
12 106 (15.92%) Architect
12 106 (15.92%) Lead Developer
12 106 (15.92%) Lead Software Developer
12 106 (15.92%) Lead Software Engineer
12 106 (15.92%) Software Team Leader
12 106 (15.92%) Solutions Architect
12 106 (15.92%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (72.52%) gRPC
1 483 (72.52%) Pandas
1 483 (72.52%) Protocol Buffers
2 475 (71.32%) NumPy
2 475 (71.32%) SciPy
3 72 (10.81%) PySpark
4 55 (8.26%) AngularJS
5 41 (6.16%) React
6 39 (5.86%) .NET
7 34 (5.11%) Vue
8 29 (4.35%) Redux
9 19 (2.85%) .NET Core
10 17 (2.55%) Spring
10 17 (2.55%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.40%) ASP.NET
12 15 (2.25%) HTML
13 14 (2.10%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (2.10%) CSS
13 14 (2.10%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.20%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 581 (87.24%) Equities
2 575 (86.34%) Derivative
3 572 (85.89%) Fixed Income
4 565 (84.83%) Hedge funds
5 72 (10.81%) Pricing Data
6 62 (9.31%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 4 (0.60%) 3D Graphics
8 4 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.60%) Ray Tracing
8 4 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.60%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.45%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.45%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.30%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.15%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.80%) Linux
2 4 (0.60%) Windows
3 3 (0.45%) CentOS
4 2 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (86.19%) Agile
1 574 (86.19%) Asset Management
2 527 (79.13%) Software Engineering
3 412 (61.86%) Investment Management
4 207 (31.08%) Line Management
5 175 (26.28%) Greeks
6 76 (11.41%) Analytics
7 74 (11.11%) Migration
8 38 (5.71%) Business Analysis
9 34 (5.11%) Product Management
10 28 (4.20%) Mentoring
11 25 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (3.75%) Machine Learning
12 21 (3.15%) Full Stack Development
13 17 (2.55%) Electronic Trading
13 17 (2.55%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (2.40%) Fintech
15 12 (1.80%) Change Control
15 12 (1.80%) Data Architecture
15 12 (1.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 584 (87.69%) Python
2 526 (78.98%) JavaScript
3 520 (78.08%) TypeScript
4 512 (76.88%) Java
5 173 (25.98%) SQL
6 44 (6.61%) C#
7 14 (2.10%) Ruby
8 12 (1.80%) Scala
9 4 (0.60%) C
9 4 (0.60%) C++
10 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.15%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 19 (2.85%) Degree
2 4 (0.60%) ACCA
2 4 (0.60%) CIMA
3 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (0.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.30%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.15%) GCSC
4 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.15%) PhD
4 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (26.28%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.15%) P3O
3 1 (0.15%) PMO
3 1 (0.15%) QA
3 1 (0.15%) SEPA
3 1 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 10 (1.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (9.61%) Bloomberg
1 64 (9.61%) Reuters
2 24 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.10%) SAP
4 5 (0.75%) Murex
5 2 (0.30%) Sophis
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco
6 1 (0.15%) HP
6 1 (0.15%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.15%) Planview