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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 479 458
Rank change year-on-year +236 -21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 442 186 481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 0.46% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.66% 1.19% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 419 168 298
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £82,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £113,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -12.09% +33.82%
75th Percentile £146,250 £115,000 £139,375
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £218,750
UK median annual salary £112,500 £102,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -6.82% +10.00%

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 12,082 15,585 32,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 38.53% 46.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,267 11,385 16,924
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,080 £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 17 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
1 234 (52.94%) Apache Airflow
2 229 (51.81%) Apache
3 7 (1.58%) nginx
3 7 (1.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 331 (74.89%) AWS
2 226 (51.13%) dbt
3 210 (47.51%) Snowflake
4 154 (34.84%) GCP
5 73 (16.52%) Azure
6 20 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.94%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.36%) WhatsApp
11 4 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.90%) SaaS
11 4 (0.90%) Serverless
12 3 (0.68%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 1 (0.23%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.23%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) OpenVPN
2 6 (1.36%) 3G
2 6 (1.36%) 4G
2 6 (1.36%) LTE
2 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.36%) VSAT
2 6 (1.36%) Wireless
3 4 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) FTP
4 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (51.13%) Apache Arrow
1 226 (51.13%) Dremio
2 222 (50.23%) Amazon Athena
2 222 (50.23%) Apache Ignite
3 214 (48.42%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.71%) Power BI
6 6 (1.36%) DB2
7 4 (0.90%) Big Data
7 4 (0.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.23%) Metadata
8 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (1.36%) JIRA
2 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.68%) Protractor
3 2 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 386 (87.33%) Finance
2 319 (72.17%) Front Office
3 234 (52.94%) Banking
4 226 (51.13%) Investment Banking
5 55 (12.44%) Social Skills
6 43 (9.73%) Back Office
7 15 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.39%) Law
8 14 (3.17%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.36%) Military
9 6 (1.36%) Retail
10 5 (1.13%) Games
10 5 (1.13%) Marketing
11 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.23%) International Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 189 (42.76%) Software Engineer
2 167 (37.78%) Developer
3 157 (35.52%) Senior
4 127 (28.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 106 (23.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 105 (23.76%) Lead
7 91 (20.59%) Python Engineer
7 91 (20.59%) Python Software Engineer
8 79 (17.87%) Java Engineer
8 79 (17.87%) Java Software Engineer
9 77 (17.42%) Senior Developer
10 76 (17.19%) AWS Engineer
10 76 (17.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 58 (13.12%) Senior Software Developer
12 57 (12.90%) Lead Developer
13 55 (12.44%) Software Developer
14 51 (11.54%) Java Developer
15 48 (10.86%) Lead Software Developer
15 48 (10.86%) Software Team Leader
15 48 (10.86%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (52.94%) gRPC
1 234 (52.94%) Pandas
1 234 (52.94%) Protocol Buffers
2 222 (50.23%) NumPy
2 222 (50.23%) SciPy
3 76 (17.19%) AngularJS
4 66 (14.93%) React
5 62 (14.03%) .NET
6 54 (12.22%) Vue
7 49 (11.09%) Redux
8 32 (7.24%) ASP.NET
9 29 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 28 (6.33%) .NET Core
11 20 (4.52%) HTML
12 19 (4.30%) CSS
12 19 (4.30%) Spring
12 19 (4.30%) Spring Boot
13 16 (3.62%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.71%) Material-UI
15 11 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 323 (73.08%) Equities
2 317 (71.72%) Fixed Income
3 315 (71.27%) Derivative
4 307 (69.46%) Hedge funds
5 36 (8.14%) Product Ownership
6 30 (6.79%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.04%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.90%) 3D Graphics
9 4 (0.90%) Ray Tracing
9 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.45%) FPGA
10 2 (0.45%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.45%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.23%) Contract for Difference
11 1 (0.23%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.81%) Windows
3 7 (1.58%) CentOS
4 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (72.17%) Asset Management
2 308 (69.68%) Agile
3 303 (68.55%) Software Engineering
4 270 (61.09%) Investment Management
5 92 (20.81%) Greeks
6 91 (20.59%) Line Management
7 66 (14.93%) Analytics
8 40 (9.05%) Product Management
9 35 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
9 35 (7.92%) Machine Learning
10 30 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (6.11%) Fintech
12 24 (5.43%) Full Stack Development
13 20 (4.52%) Low Latency
14 16 (3.62%) Computer Science
14 16 (3.62%) Front End Development
14 16 (3.62%) Mentoring
15 14 (3.17%) Change Control
15 14 (3.17%) DevOps
15 14 (3.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 339 (76.70%) Python
2 296 (66.97%) JavaScript
3 290 (65.61%) TypeScript
4 270 (61.09%) Java
5 94 (21.27%) SQL
6 84 (19.00%) C#
7 14 (3.17%) Ruby
8 12 (2.71%) C++
8 12 (2.71%) Scala
9 7 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.90%) C
11 3 (0.68%) Erlang
12 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (6.56%) Degree
2 9 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.36%) GCSC
4 4 (0.90%) ACCA
4 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.90%) CIMA
5 2 (0.45%) PhD
5 2 (0.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (20.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.26%) SLA
3 2 (0.45%) QA
3 2 (0.45%) SEPA
4 1 (0.23%) P3O
4 1 (0.23%) PMO
4 1 (0.23%) SOC 1
System Software
1 15 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.07%) SAP
3 6 (1.36%) Cisco
3 6 (1.36%) HP
4 5 (1.13%) Murex
5 1 (0.23%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle
5 1 (0.23%) Planview
5 1 (0.23%) Solace
5 1 (0.23%) Sophis