Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 265 276
Rank change year-on-year +160 +11 -60
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 661 444 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.74% 1.39% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.83% 3.02% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 619 402 868
10th Percentile £72,250 £62,500 £68,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £82,813 £84,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
England median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%

All Generic Skills
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,684 14,702 37,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.08% 46.07% 51.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,777 10,150 15,465
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London -7 25 £95,000 -7.32% 10
East London +24 1 £75,000 -
Foreign Exchange (FX)
England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 291 (44.02%) Apache
2 288 (43.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.91%) nginx
4 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.15%) Ripple
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 482 (72.92%) AWS
2 288 (43.57%) dbt
3 262 (39.64%) Snowflake
4 220 (33.28%) GCP
5 117 (17.70%) Azure
6 13 (1.97%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.21%) Serverless
8 7 (1.06%) SaaS
9 6 (0.91%) WhatsApp
10 5 (0.76%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.15%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.15%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.15%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) OpenVPN
2 3 (0.45%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) LAN
2 3 (0.45%) WAN
2 3 (0.45%) Wireless
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) FTP
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (43.57%) Apache Arrow
1 288 (43.57%) Dremio
2 276 (41.75%) Amazon Athena
2 276 (41.75%) Apache Ignite
3 274 (41.45%) Data Lake
4 20 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.97%) Power BI
6 12 (1.82%) Big Data
6 12 (1.82%) Tableau
7 10 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.36%) DB2
9 7 (1.06%) MySQL
10 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.30%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Jenkins
1 7 (1.06%) JIRA
2 4 (0.61%) Git
3 3 (0.45%) GitLab
3 3 (0.45%) Maven
3 3 (0.45%) Protractor
4 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.15%) GCC
4 1 (0.15%) GDB
4 1 (0.15%) Gradle
4 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.15%) Selenium
4 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 578 (87.44%) Finance
2 489 (73.98%) Front Office
3 323 (48.87%) Banking
4 317 (47.96%) Investment Banking
5 54 (8.17%) Social Skills
6 50 (7.56%) Back Office
7 24 (3.63%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (0.91%) Retail
10 5 (0.76%) Games
11 3 (0.45%) Advertising
11 3 (0.45%) Legal
11 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.30%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.30%) International Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Law
13 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.15%) Marketing
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (43.57%) Developer
2 260 (39.33%) Software Engineer
3 200 (30.26%) Senior
4 152 (23.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 150 (22.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 144 (21.79%) Lead
7 113 (17.10%) Python Engineer
7 113 (17.10%) Python Software Engineer
8 103 (15.58%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (15.28%) Java Engineer
9 101 (15.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 100 (15.13%) AWS Software Engineer
11 99 (14.98%) Senior Developer
12 95 (14.37%) .NET Developer
13 90 (13.62%) Analyst
14 89 (13.46%) Java Developer
15 82 (12.41%) .NET Software Engineer
16 81 (12.25%) Lead Developer
17 80 (12.10%) .NET Software Developer
17 80 (12.10%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (43.57%) Pandas
2 286 (43.27%) gRPC
2 286 (43.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 275 (41.60%) NumPy
3 275 (41.60%) SciPy
4 124 (18.76%) AngularJS
5 115 (17.40%) React
6 110 (16.64%) .NET
7 92 (13.92%) Vue
8 86 (13.01%) Redux
9 69 (10.44%) .NET Core
10 38 (5.75%) ASP.NET
11 37 (5.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 31 (4.69%) Spring Boot
13 22 (3.33%) Spring
14 20 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
15 19 (2.87%) CSS
15 19 (2.87%) HTML
16 16 (2.42%) Hibernate
17 12 (1.82%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 485 (73.37%) Equities
2 471 (71.26%) Fixed Income
3 445 (67.32%) Derivative
4 439 (66.41%) Hedge funds
5 63 (9.53%) Product Ownership
6 42 (6.35%) Pricing Data
7 19 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.36%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.61%) 3D Graphics
13 4 (0.61%) Ray Tracing
13 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.45%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.45%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.96%) Linux
2 16 (2.42%) Unix
3 11 (1.66%) Windows
4 6 (0.91%) CentOS
5 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (69.14%) Asset Management
2 437 (66.11%) Agile
3 410 (62.03%) Software Engineering
4 381 (57.64%) Investment Management
5 116 (17.55%) Greeks
6 105 (15.89%) Line Management
7 98 (14.83%) Analytics
8 97 (14.67%) Fintech
9 75 (11.35%) Full Stack Development
10 59 (8.93%) Machine Learning
11 57 (8.62%) Low Latency
12 56 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
13 55 (8.32%) DevOps
14 51 (7.72%) TDD
15 49 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (6.35%) Product Management
17 40 (6.05%) Computer Science
18 37 (5.60%) Electronic Trading
18 37 (5.60%) Portfolio Management
19 35 (5.30%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 461 (69.74%) Python
2 405 (61.27%) JavaScript
3 383 (57.94%) TypeScript
4 374 (56.58%) Java
5 167 (25.26%) SQL
6 144 (21.79%) C#
7 34 (5.14%) C++
8 12 (1.82%) Ruby
8 12 (1.82%) Scala
9 8 (1.21%) C
9 8 (1.21%) Rust
10 7 (1.06%) VBA
11 6 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.45%) Erlang
15 2 (0.30%) Perl
16 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (6.20%) Degree
2 17 (2.57%) Master's Degree
3 16 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.06%) PhD
5 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.15%) ACCA
7 1 (0.15%) CFA
7 1 (0.15%) CIMA
7 1 (0.15%) MBA
7 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (17.55%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.20%) QA
3 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.30%) SEPA
5 1 (0.15%) P3O
5 1 (0.15%) PMO
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 24 (3.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 2 (0.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (4.08%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.12%) BISAM
3 7 (1.06%) Microsoft
4 6 (0.91%) FFastFill
4 6 (0.91%) Murex
4 6 (0.91%) Refinitiv
5 5 (0.76%) Oracle
5 5 (0.76%) TIBCO
6 4 (0.61%) SAP
7 3 (0.45%) Citrix
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.45%) VMware
8 2 (0.30%) Databricks
8 2 (0.30%) Solace
8 2 (0.30%) Sophis
9 1 (0.15%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.15%) Planview
9 1 (0.15%) Reuters
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.15%) Vertica