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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 510 478
Rank change year-on-year +141 -32 -71
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 740 551 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.56% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 1.30% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 612 470 937
10th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £102,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £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 18 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 18 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 +132 690 £112,500 +9.76% 238
London +137 606 £115,000 +9.52% 207
Work from Home +229 442 £115,000 +15.00% 77
UK excluding London +29 119 £55,000 -4.35% 65
South West +11 40 £45,000 - 13
Scotland -33 36 £45,000 -35.71% 5
South East -4 23 £55,000 -4.35% 32
East of England +3 10 - - 6
West Midlands +15 4 £32,000 - 2
Midlands -6 4 £32,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £75,000 - 4
North of England +45 2 - - 4
North West -1 2 - - 4
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
1 236 (31.89%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (31.35%) Apache
3 21 (2.84%) GemFire
4 17 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.95%) nginx
7 4 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.41%) OpenZeppelin
9 2 (0.27%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 427 (57.70%) AWS
2 228 (30.81%) dbt
3 210 (28.38%) Snowflake
4 206 (27.84%) GCP
5 132 (17.84%) Azure
6 24 (3.24%) Power Platform
7 22 (2.97%) Power Automate
8 11 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.22%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.22%) Serverless
10 8 (1.08%) SaaS
11 6 (0.81%) WhatsApp
12 5 (0.68%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.54%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.41%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.22%) Wireless
2 7 (0.95%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.81%) 3G
3 6 (0.81%) 4G
3 6 (0.81%) LTE
3 6 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.81%) VSAT
4 4 (0.54%) HTTP
5 3 (0.41%) Firewall
5 3 (0.41%) IPFS
5 3 (0.41%) LAN
5 3 (0.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) FTP
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (30.81%) Apache Arrow
1 228 (30.81%) Dremio
2 224 (30.27%) Amazon Athena
2 224 (30.27%) Apache Ignite
3 214 (28.92%) Data Lake
4 33 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (2.84%) CockroachDB
5 21 (2.84%) Hazelcast
6 19 (2.57%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.16%) Power BI
8 9 (1.22%) DB2
8 9 (1.22%) Tableau
9 8 (1.08%) MySQL
10 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.41%) Data Mart
12 3 (0.41%) Tick Data
13 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (2.84%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.76%) JIRA
3 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.54%) Git
4 4 (0.54%) GitLab
5 3 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.41%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.41%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.41%) Maven
5 3 (0.41%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.41%) Protractor
5 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) GCC
7 1 (0.14%) GDB
7 1 (0.14%) Gradle
7 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 617 (83.38%) Finance
2 446 (60.27%) Front Office
3 329 (44.46%) Banking
4 318 (42.97%) Investment Banking
5 112 (15.14%) Social Skills
6 76 (10.27%) Law
7 73 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (6.89%) Back Office
9 41 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
10 29 (3.92%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.16%) Legal
12 16 (2.16%) Marketing
13 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.81%) Military
14 6 (0.81%) Retail
15 5 (0.68%) Games
15 5 (0.68%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 308 (41.62%) Developer
2 254 (34.32%) Software Engineer
3 189 (25.54%) Senior
4 152 (20.54%) Lead
5 146 (19.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 128 (17.30%) Analyst
6 128 (17.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 104 (14.05%) Senior Developer
8 101 (13.65%) Java Engineer
9 100 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 99 (13.38%) .NET Developer
11 91 (12.30%) Python Engineer
11 91 (12.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 88 (11.89%) Java Developer
13 84 (11.35%) .NET Software Engineer
14 82 (11.08%) .NET Software Developer
15 79 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
15 79 (10.68%) Business Analyst
16 77 (10.41%) Lead Software Engineer
17 76 (10.27%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (31.76%) Pandas
2 234 (31.62%) gRPC
2 234 (31.62%) Protocol Buffers
3 223 (30.14%) NumPy
3 223 (30.14%) SciPy
4 130 (17.57%) AngularJS
5 125 (16.89%) .NET
6 121 (16.35%) React
7 94 (12.70%) Vue
8 89 (12.03%) Redux
9 71 (9.59%) .NET Core
10 51 (6.89%) Spring Boot
11 46 (6.22%) Spring
12 43 (5.81%) ASP.NET
13 39 (5.27%) ASP.NET Core
14 29 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
15 28 (3.78%) CSS
16 27 (3.65%) REST
17 26 (3.51%) HTML
18 25 (3.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 434 (58.65%) Equities
2 423 (57.16%) Fixed Income
3 408 (55.14%) Derivative
4 392 (52.97%) Hedge funds
5 66 (8.92%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.05%) Pricing Data
7 25 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.84%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.84%) Replication
9 20 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 14 (1.89%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (1.89%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.22%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.22%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.76%) Linux
2 15 (2.03%) Unix
3 13 (1.76%) Windows
4 9 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.95%) CentOS
6 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (58.11%) Agile
2 402 (54.32%) Asset Management
3 388 (52.43%) Software Engineering
4 342 (46.22%) Investment Management
5 118 (15.95%) Fintech
6 92 (12.43%) Analytics
6 92 (12.43%) Greeks
7 91 (12.30%) Line Management
8 80 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
9 72 (9.73%) DevOps
10 65 (8.78%) Machine Learning
10 65 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (8.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 61 (8.24%) Low Latency
13 60 (8.11%) TDD
14 43 (5.81%) Computer Science
15 42 (5.68%) Electronic Trading
16 41 (5.54%) Multithreading
17 40 (5.41%) Product Management
18 38 (5.14%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 401 (54.19%) Python
2 375 (50.68%) JavaScript
3 361 (48.78%) Java
4 341 (46.08%) TypeScript
5 182 (24.59%) SQL
6 164 (22.16%) C#
7 38 (5.14%) C++
8 21 (2.84%) Groovy
9 14 (1.89%) Ruby
10 12 (1.62%) Scala
11 11 (1.49%) Rust
12 7 (0.95%) C
12 7 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.95%) VBA
13 5 (0.68%) Bash
13 5 (0.68%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.54%) PHP
15 3 (0.41%) Erlang
15 3 (0.41%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 54 (7.30%) Degree
2 14 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.76%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.81%) ACCA
5 6 (0.81%) CIMA
5 6 (0.81%) GCSC
6 5 (0.68%) PhD
6 5 (0.68%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.68%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.14%) IIBA
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.43%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.08%) QA
3 10 (1.35%) SLA
4 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.27%) PMO
5 2 (0.27%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) COREP
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
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%) SOC 1
System Software
1 26 (3.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.84%) Grafana
1 21 (2.84%) HAProxy
1 21 (2.84%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (2.84%) Kibana
1 21 (2.84%) Prometheus
1 21 (2.84%) Zipkin
2 18 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Control-M
4 3 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.51%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.84%) Dynatrace
3 21 (2.84%) SAP
3 21 (2.84%) Splunk
4 17 (2.30%) Alteryx
5 14 (1.89%) BISAM
5 14 (1.89%) Oracle
6 7 (0.95%) Murex
7 6 (0.81%) Cisco
7 6 (0.81%) FFastFill
7 6 (0.81%) HP
7 6 (0.81%) Refinitiv
7 6 (0.81%) TIBCO
8 4 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.41%) Citrix
9 3 (0.41%) Foundry
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.41%) Solace
9 3 (0.41%) VMware