Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 268 481
Rank change year-on-year +92 +213 -53
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 292 384 198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.92% 1.14% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.90% 3.19% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 273 359 177
10th Percentile £85,000 £54,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £105,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.95% -17.02%
75th Percentile £147,500 £142,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 5,963 12,029 16,425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.31% 35.56% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,870 9,255 11,843
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Foreign Exchange (FX) trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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
1 122 (41.78%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (31.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.92%) AWS
2 122 (41.78%) dbt
3 91 (31.16%) Snowflake
4 75 (25.68%) GCP
5 35 (11.99%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (11.99%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (11.64%) Dagster
7 7 (2.40%) SaaS
8 6 (2.05%) Azure
9 4 (1.37%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.34%) Datadog
10 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (63.70%) Data Lake
2 122 (41.78%) Amazon Athena
2 122 (41.78%) Apache Arrow
2 122 (41.78%) Apache Iceberg
2 122 (41.78%) Dremio
3 77 (26.37%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.71%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.03%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.03%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.34%) KDB
8 1 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.34%) Power BI
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.74%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.03%) AppScan
2 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (1.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.03%) MSTest
2 3 (1.03%) NUnit
2 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.03%) SpecFlow
2 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 277 (94.86%) Finance
2 257 (88.01%) Front Office
3 115 (39.38%) Banking
4 99 (33.90%) Investment Banking
5 12 (4.11%) Social Skills
6 7 (2.40%) Law
7 5 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Back Office
8 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Advertising
9 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (46.58%) Software Engineer
2 122 (41.78%) AWS Engineer
2 122 (41.78%) AWS Software Engineer
3 88 (30.14%) Java Engineer
4 85 (29.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 81 (27.74%) Python Engineer
5 81 (27.74%) Python Software Engineer
6 69 (23.63%) Developer
7 65 (22.26%) Senior
8 61 (20.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (19.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 54 (18.49%) Senior Java Engineer
10 54 (18.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 48 (16.44%) AWS Developer
12 39 (13.36%) Lead
13 36 (12.33%) Data Governance Analyst
13 36 (12.33%) Data Governance Manager
13 36 (12.33%) Governance Manager
14 30 (10.27%) Head of Finance
14 30 (10.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.30%) NumPy
1 106 (36.30%) Pandas
1 106 (36.30%) SciPy
2 74 (25.34%) gRPC
2 74 (25.34%) Protocol Buffers
3 50 (17.12%) PySpark
4 45 (15.41%) React
5 39 (13.36%) AngularJS
6 37 (12.67%) Node.js
7 36 (12.33%) Vue
8 9 (3.08%) Redux
9 8 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.40%) Web Services
11 5 (1.71%) .NET
11 5 (1.71%) Middleware
12 4 (1.37%) HTML
12 4 (1.37%) HTML5
12 4 (1.37%) REST
13 3 (1.03%) CSS3
13 3 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 250 (85.62%) Equities
2 249 (85.27%) Fixed Income
3 220 (75.34%) Derivative
4 206 (70.55%) Hedge funds
5 41 (14.04%) Pricing Data
6 34 (11.64%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.05%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.05%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.03%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.68%) CMDB
12 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (0.34%) Reference Data
13 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.40%) Linux
2 6 (2.05%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (85.96%) Agile
2 193 (66.10%) Investment Management
3 147 (50.34%) Migration
4 138 (47.26%) Software Engineering
5 131 (44.86%) Asset Management
6 112 (38.36%) Data Governance
6 112 (38.36%) Regulatory Compliance
6 112 (38.36%) Roadmaps
7 96 (32.88%) Data Management
8 49 (16.78%) Fintech
9 42 (14.38%) Risk Management
10 33 (11.30%) Order Management
11 32 (10.96%) Performance Attribution
12 11 (3.77%) TDD
13 9 (3.08%) Algorithmic Trading
13 9 (3.08%) Low Latency
14 8 (2.74%) Electronic Trading
15 7 (2.40%) Use Case
15 7 (2.40%) User Acceptance Testing
16 6 (2.05%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 125 (42.81%) Python
2 121 (41.44%) TypeScript
3 120 (41.10%) JavaScript
4 114 (39.04%) Java
5 32 (10.96%) SQL
6 12 (4.11%) C#
7 6 (2.05%) C++
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 10 (3.42%) Degree
2 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.68%) PhD
4 1 (0.34%) MBA
4 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.34%) PMP
4 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.84%) MiFID
2 7 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) SLA
4 2 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
1 3 (1.03%) Puppet
2 2 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (2.40%) Oracle
2 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.03%) Solace
2 3 (1.03%) TIBCO
3 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.34%) Murex
4 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.34%) Reuters