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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 185 458
Rank change year-on-year -48 +273 +38
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 277 619 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 1.73% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.41% 4.98% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 256 597 155
10th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £63,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -

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 8,127 12,434 14,238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.29% 34.70% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,712 9,344 10,687
10th Percentile £31,275 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,747 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £108,750
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 21 June 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
1 144 (51.99%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (29.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.08%) GemFire
4 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 166 (59.93%) AWS
2 144 (51.99%) dbt
3 97 (35.02%) GCP
4 80 (28.88%) Snowflake
5 12 (4.33%) Azure
6 11 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (3.97%) Dagster
7 7 (2.53%) SaaS
8 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (51.99%) Amazon Athena
1 144 (51.99%) Apache Arrow
1 144 (51.99%) Apache Iceberg
1 144 (51.99%) Dremio
2 117 (42.24%) Data Lake
3 76 (27.44%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (23.83%) Apache Ignite
5 5 (1.81%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.08%) Redis
8 1 (0.36%) KDB
8 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.36%) Power BI
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.08%) MSTest
2 3 (1.08%) NUnit
2 3 (1.08%) SpecFlow
2 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 254 (91.70%) Finance
2 242 (87.36%) Front Office
3 111 (40.07%) Banking
4 91 (32.85%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.42%) Social Skills
6 6 (2.17%) Law
7 5 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.44%) Back Office
8 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Advertising
9 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (61.37%) Software Engineer
2 144 (51.99%) AWS Engineer
2 144 (51.99%) AWS Software Engineer
3 117 (42.24%) Developer
4 103 (37.18%) Python Engineer
4 103 (37.18%) Python Software Engineer
5 102 (36.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 100 (36.10%) Java Engineer
7 97 (35.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 81 (29.24%) AWS Developer
9 70 (25.27%) Senior
10 61 (22.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 60 (21.66%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (21.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 51 (18.41%) Python Developer
13 33 (11.91%) Lead
14 32 (11.55%) Java Developer
15 30 (10.83%) Java Software Developer
16 20 (7.22%) Head of Finance
17 18 (6.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (46.21%) NumPy
1 128 (46.21%) Pandas
1 128 (46.21%) SciPy
2 89 (32.13%) React
3 78 (28.16%) AngularJS
4 76 (27.44%) Node.js
5 75 (27.08%) Vue
6 63 (22.74%) gRPC
6 63 (22.74%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (9.75%) PySpark
8 21 (7.58%) Redux
9 8 (2.89%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.53%) Web Services
11 5 (1.81%) Middleware
12 4 (1.44%) .NET
12 4 (1.44%) HTML
12 4 (1.44%) HTML5
13 3 (1.08%) CSS3
13 3 (1.08%) LESS
13 3 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 230 (83.03%) Equities
2 229 (82.67%) Fixed Income
3 156 (56.32%) Derivative
4 145 (52.35%) Hedge funds
5 53 (19.13%) Pricing Data
6 9 (3.25%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.17%) CMDB
7 6 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
7 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.36%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.36%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.53%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) Unix
3 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (81.23%) Agile
2 192 (69.31%) Investment Management
3 171 (61.73%) Software Engineering
4 165 (59.57%) Asset Management
5 92 (33.21%) Fintech
6 81 (29.24%) Risk Management
7 70 (25.27%) Data Management
7 70 (25.27%) Order Management
8 65 (23.47%) Migration
8 65 (23.47%) Performance Attribution
9 54 (19.49%) Data Governance
9 54 (19.49%) Regulatory Compliance
9 54 (19.49%) Roadmaps
10 16 (5.78%) TDD
11 15 (5.42%) Analytics
12 13 (4.69%) Low Latency
13 11 (3.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (3.97%) User Experience
14 10 (3.61%) Multithreading
15 9 (3.25%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 153 (55.23%) JavaScript
1 153 (55.23%) TypeScript
2 148 (53.43%) Python
3 120 (43.32%) Java
4 32 (11.55%) SQL
5 13 (4.69%) C++
6 12 (4.33%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.69%) Degree
2 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.44%) PhD
4 1 (0.36%) MBA
4 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.36%) PMP
4 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.66%) MiFID
2 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.72%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (2.53%) Oracle
2 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.08%) Solace
3 3 (1.08%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.36%) Reuters