Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 506 447
Rank change year-on-year +128 -59 -42
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 693 585 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.32% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 565 501 982
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £84,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £133,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +114 644 £112,500 +12.50% 206
London +116 560 £115,000 +12.20% 173
Work from Home +212 384 £112,500 +15.38% 69
UK excluding London +69 120 £55,000 -4.35% 35
South West +16 41 £45,000 - 15
Scotland -33 37 £45,000 -35.71% 4
South East -4 23 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England +15 10 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands +19 3 £32,000 - 3
Midlands +16 3 £32,000 - 4
North of England +44 2 - - 1
North West +1 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 184 (26.55%) Apache Airflow
2 179 (25.83%) Apache
3 21 (3.03%) GemFire
4 17 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.01%) nginx
7 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.43%) OpenZeppelin
9 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.02%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 372 (53.68%) AWS
2 192 (27.71%) GCP
3 172 (24.82%) dbt
4 158 (22.80%) Snowflake
5 136 (19.62%) Azure
6 22 (3.17%) Power Automate
7 20 (2.89%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.59%) Serverless
10 9 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.15%) SaaS
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.87%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) Azure Functions
15 4 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.30%) Wireless
2 7 (1.01%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.87%) 3G
3 6 (0.87%) 4G
3 6 (0.87%) LTE
3 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.87%) VSAT
4 4 (0.58%) HTTP
5 3 (0.43%) Firewall
5 3 (0.43%) IPFS
5 3 (0.43%) LAN
5 3 (0.43%) WAN
6 2 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (25.40%) Amazon Athena
2 172 (24.82%) Apache Arrow
2 172 (24.82%) Apache Ignite
2 172 (24.82%) Dremio
3 158 (22.80%) Data Lake
4 34 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (3.03%) CockroachDB
5 21 (3.03%) Hazelcast
6 19 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.73%) Power BI
8 9 (1.30%) DB2
9 8 (1.15%) MySQL
10 7 (1.01%) Tableau
11 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.43%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.43%) Redis
12 3 (0.43%) Tick Data
13 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (3.03%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.88%) JIRA
3 9 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.72%) Git
5 4 (0.58%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.43%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.43%) Maven
6 3 (0.43%) NetBeans
6 3 (0.43%) Protractor
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.29%) GCC
7 2 (0.29%) GDB
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 557 (80.38%) Finance
2 397 (57.29%) Front Office
3 272 (39.25%) Banking
4 261 (37.66%) Investment Banking
5 118 (17.03%) Social Skills
6 76 (10.97%) Law
7 74 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (7.50%) Back Office
9 41 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
10 33 (4.76%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.31%) Legal
12 16 (2.31%) Marketing
13 14 (2.02%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.87%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.87%) Military
14 6 (0.87%) Retail
15 5 (0.72%) Games
16 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 304 (43.87%) Developer
2 224 (32.32%) Software Engineer
3 166 (23.95%) Senior
4 140 (20.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 138 (19.91%) Lead
6 132 (19.05%) Analyst
7 106 (15.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 103 (14.86%) .NET Developer
9 102 (14.72%) Senior Developer
10 86 (12.41%) .NET Software Engineer
11 84 (12.12%) .NET Software Developer
12 82 (11.83%) Java Developer
13 79 (11.40%) Business Analyst
13 79 (11.40%) Java Engineer
14 78 (11.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 71 (10.25%) Lead Software Engineer
16 70 (10.10%) Finance Manager
17 69 (9.96%) Lead Developer
17 69 (9.96%) Python Engineer
17 69 (9.96%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (26.84%) Pandas
2 182 (26.26%) gRPC
2 182 (26.26%) Protocol Buffers
3 172 (24.82%) NumPy
4 171 (24.68%) SciPy
5 131 (18.90%) AngularJS
6 129 (18.61%) .NET
7 125 (18.04%) React
8 96 (13.85%) Vue
9 92 (13.28%) Redux
10 73 (10.53%) .NET Core
11 47 (6.78%) ASP.NET
12 46 (6.64%) Spring Boot
13 44 (6.35%) Spring
14 41 (5.92%) ASP.NET Core
15 30 (4.33%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (4.18%) Kafka
16 29 (4.18%) REST
17 26 (3.75%) CSS
18 24 (3.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 382 (55.12%) Equities
2 374 (53.97%) Fixed Income
3 355 (51.23%) Derivative
4 341 (49.21%) Hedge funds
5 62 (8.95%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.03%) Cloud Native
8 21 (3.03%) Replication
9 18 (2.60%) OTC Derivatives
9 18 (2.60%) Pricing Data
10 16 (2.31%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.02%) Credit Derivative
12 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.30%) Client/Server
14 8 (1.15%) Credit Risk
15 7 (1.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (1.01%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.36%) Linux
2 14 (2.02%) Windows
3 13 (1.88%) Unix
4 9 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.01%) CentOS
6 4 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (54.26%) Agile
2 347 (50.07%) Asset Management
3 339 (48.92%) Software Engineering
4 302 (43.58%) Investment Management
5 125 (18.04%) Fintech
6 93 (13.42%) Analytics
7 79 (11.40%) Full Stack Development
8 75 (10.82%) Line Management
9 74 (10.68%) DevOps
10 68 (9.81%) Greeks
11 65 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (9.09%) Machine Learning
13 62 (8.95%) Artificial Intelligence
13 62 (8.95%) TDD
14 59 (8.51%) Low Latency
15 49 (7.07%) Computer Science
16 44 (6.35%) Electronic Trading
17 38 (5.48%) Multithreading
17 38 (5.48%) Portfolio Management
17 38 (5.48%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 351 (50.65%) Python
2 325 (46.90%) JavaScript
3 312 (45.02%) Java
4 291 (41.99%) TypeScript
5 178 (25.69%) SQL
6 166 (23.95%) C#
7 45 (6.49%) C++
8 21 (3.03%) Groovy
9 14 (2.02%) Ruby
10 12 (1.73%) Scala
11 9 (1.30%) Rust
12 8 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.01%) C
13 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.01%) VBA
14 5 (0.72%) Bash
14 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.58%) PHP
16 3 (0.43%) Erlang
16 3 (0.43%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 61 (8.80%) Degree
2 19 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.87%) ACCA
5 6 (0.87%) CIMA
5 6 (0.87%) GCSC
6 5 (0.72%) PhD
6 5 (0.72%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.72%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 49 (7.07%) QA
3 10 (1.44%) SLA
4 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) COREP
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.14%) P3O
6 1 (0.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 27 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (3.17%) Grafana
1 22 (3.17%) Kibana
1 22 (3.17%) Prometheus
2 21 (3.03%) HAProxy
2 21 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (3.03%) Zipkin
3 17 (2.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.75%) Bloomberg
3 21 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 21 (3.03%) SAP
3 21 (3.03%) Splunk
4 17 (2.45%) Alteryx
5 14 (2.02%) BISAM
6 13 (1.88%) Oracle
7 8 (1.15%) Murex
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco
8 6 (0.87%) FFastFill
8 6 (0.87%) HP
8 6 (0.87%) Refinitiv
8 6 (0.87%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.43%) Citrix
10 3 (0.43%) Foundry
10 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.43%) Solace
10 3 (0.43%) VMware