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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 470 434
Rank change year-on-year +201 -36 +11
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 392 198 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.47% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.26% 1.21% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 368 177 319
10th Percentile £54,250 £58,750 £66,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £97,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -17.02% +38.24%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £136,875
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £218,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +18.92%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Foreign Exchange (FX) is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,031 16,342 31,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.53% 38.56% 46.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 11,849 16,959
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +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 6 May 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
1 190 (48.47%) Apache Airflow
2 181 (46.17%) Apache
3 7 (1.79%) nginx
3 7 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 283 (72.19%) AWS
2 178 (45.41%) dbt
3 166 (42.35%) Snowflake
4 146 (37.24%) GCP
5 75 (19.13%) Azure
6 16 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.32%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.30%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.53%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.02%) SaaS
10 4 (1.02%) Serverless
11 3 (0.77%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.51%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.26%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) OpenVPN
2 6 (1.53%) 3G
2 6 (1.53%) 4G
2 6 (1.53%) LTE
2 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.53%) VSAT
2 6 (1.53%) Wireless
3 4 (1.02%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
4 1 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (45.41%) Amazon Athena
1 178 (45.41%) Apache Arrow
1 178 (45.41%) Apache Ignite
1 178 (45.41%) Dremio
2 166 (42.35%) Data Lake
3 13 (3.32%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.04%) Power BI
5 6 (1.53%) DB2
6 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.77%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.26%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (1.28%) JIRA
2 3 (0.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.77%) Protractor
3 2 (0.51%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 336 (85.71%) Finance
2 268 (68.37%) Front Office
3 185 (47.19%) Banking
4 178 (45.41%) Investment Banking
5 55 (14.03%) Social Skills
6 42 (10.71%) Back Office
7 16 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.83%) Law
9 14 (3.57%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.53%) Military
10 6 (1.53%) Retail
11 5 (1.28%) Games
11 5 (1.28%) Marketing
12 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.26%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (42.09%) Developer
2 161 (41.07%) Software Engineer
3 137 (34.95%) Senior
4 105 (26.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 102 (26.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 90 (22.96%) Lead
7 80 (20.41%) Senior Developer
8 71 (18.11%) Python Engineer
8 71 (18.11%) Python Software Engineer
9 59 (15.05%) Java Engineer
9 59 (15.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 58 (14.80%) Senior Software Developer
11 54 (13.78%) Lead Developer
12 52 (13.27%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (13.27%) AWS Software Engineer
13 51 (13.01%) Software Developer
14 49 (12.50%) Java Developer
15 47 (11.99%) .NET Developer
16 45 (11.48%) Senior .NET Developer
17 44 (11.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (48.47%) gRPC
1 190 (48.47%) Pandas
1 190 (48.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 178 (45.41%) NumPy
2 178 (45.41%) SciPy
3 76 (19.39%) AngularJS
4 68 (17.35%) React
5 64 (16.33%) .NET
6 54 (13.78%) Vue
7 49 (12.50%) Redux
8 34 (8.67%) ASP.NET
9 30 (7.65%) .NET Core
10 29 (7.40%) ASP.NET Core
11 18 (4.59%) HTML
12 17 (4.34%) CSS
12 17 (4.34%) Spring
12 17 (4.34%) Spring Boot
13 14 (3.57%) Hibernate
14 12 (3.06%) Material-UI
15 11 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 274 (69.90%) Equities
2 268 (68.37%) Fixed Income
3 266 (67.86%) Derivative
4 258 (65.82%) Hedge funds
5 30 (7.65%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.59%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.30%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.02%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (1.02%) Ray Tracing
10 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.51%) FPGA
11 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.51%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.26%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.87%) Linux
2 8 (2.04%) Windows
3 7 (1.79%) CentOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (68.88%) Asset Management
2 259 (66.07%) Agile
2 259 (66.07%) Software Engineering
3 227 (57.91%) Investment Management
4 83 (21.17%) Line Management
5 68 (17.35%) Greeks
6 61 (15.56%) Analytics
7 38 (9.69%) Product Management
8 33 (8.42%) Artificial Intelligence
8 33 (8.42%) Machine Learning
9 30 (7.65%) Fintech
9 30 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
10 22 (5.61%) Low Latency
11 18 (4.59%) Front End Development
12 16 (4.08%) Computer Science
12 16 (4.08%) DevOps
12 16 (4.08%) Mentoring
13 14 (3.57%) Change Control
13 14 (3.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 289 (73.72%) Python
2 252 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 246 (62.76%) TypeScript
4 225 (57.40%) Java
5 89 (22.70%) SQL
6 86 (21.94%) C#
7 14 (3.57%) Ruby
8 13 (3.32%) C++
9 12 (3.06%) Scala
10 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.02%) C
12 3 (0.77%) Erlang
13 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (7.40%) Degree
2 9 (2.30%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.53%) GCSC
4 4 (1.02%) ACCA
4 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.02%) CIMA
5 2 (0.51%) PhD
5 2 (0.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.51%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.55%) SLA
3 4 (1.02%) QA
4 2 (0.51%) SEPA
5 1 (0.26%) P3O
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) SOC 1
System Software
1 17 (4.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.59%) SAP
3 6 (1.53%) Cisco
3 6 (1.53%) HP
4 4 (1.02%) Murex
5 1 (0.26%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle
5 1 (0.26%) Planview
5 1 (0.26%) Solace