Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 62 103
Rank change year-on-year -48 +41 -28
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 27 129 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.13% 3.50% 2.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.63% 9.79% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 95 66
10th Percentile £613 £613 £556
25th Percentile £647 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £913
90th Percentile £873 £1,063 £969
London median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 743 1,317 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.05% 35.69% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 895 1,147
10th Percentile £265 £315 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £845 £803
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £29.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +139.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 £57.25
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.62 £42.02
% change year-on-year -22.01% -17.61% +22.90%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in Central London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -43 27 £700 -6.67% 12
Foreign Exchange (FX)
London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
1 1 (3.70%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
1 4 (14.81%) Collibra
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) KDB
2 4 (14.81%) Metadata
3 3 (11.11%) Data Mart
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
1 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 5 (18.52%) Front Office
3 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Governance Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Murex Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Pricing Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Product Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.11%) Rendezvous
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) Middleware
3 2 (7.41%) Murex MxML
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) Blazor
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) NgRx
4 1 (3.70%) RxJS
4 1 (3.70%) Sass
4 1 (3.70%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Derivative
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Equities
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Low Latency
2 5 (18.52%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
2 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
3 4 (14.81%) Data Governance Strategy
3 4 (14.81%) Data Management
3 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
3 4 (14.81%) Release Management
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 3 (11.11%) Multithreaded Programming
4 3 (11.11%) Product Management
4 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (7.41%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CCNA
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Murex
2 4 (14.81%) Solace
2 4 (14.81%) TIBCO
3 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.70%) OpenLink
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle