Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 118 105 120
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 365 635 918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.08% 2.50% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.27% 6.91% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 525 790
10th Percentile £610 £527 £538
25th Percentile £700 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £800
90th Percentile £900 £950 £888
England median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £98.75 - -
Median hourly rate £102.50 - -
75th Percentile £106.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -48 27 £700 -6.67% 10
South London +11 8 £850 +100.00%
West London - 1 - - 4
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
1 117 (32.05%) Apache
1 117 (32.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.29%) Aladdin
2 11 (3.01%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.10%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.10%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.82%) Endur
5 2 (0.55%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.55%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.27%) Actimize
6 1 (0.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 184 (50.41%) AWS
2 116 (31.78%) dbt
3 103 (28.22%) Snowflake
4 95 (26.03%) GCP
5 47 (12.88%) Azure
6 9 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.92%) PaaS
7 7 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.64%) Azure API Management
8 6 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.64%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.37%) npm
9 5 (1.37%) Yarn
10 4 (1.10%) Collibra
11 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.10%) Internet
2 2 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (31.78%) Apache Arrow
1 116 (31.78%) Dremio
2 110 (30.14%) Amazon Athena
2 110 (30.14%) Apache Ignite
3 109 (29.86%) Data Lake
4 32 (8.77%) KDB
5 8 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.92%) Power BI
6 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.92%) Tableau
7 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.64%) Big Data
7 6 (1.64%) Data Mart
8 4 (1.10%) Metadata
8 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.27%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (4.11%) JIRA
2 14 (3.84%) Git
3 8 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.64%) Postman
4 6 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.37%) webpack
6 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.55%) Babel
7 2 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.55%) Selenium
7 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.27%) Ant
8 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.27%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 274 (75.07%) Finance
2 236 (64.66%) Front Office
3 208 (56.99%) Banking
4 160 (43.84%) Investment Banking
5 53 (14.52%) Social Skills
6 31 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.38%) Back Office
8 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.64%) Wholesale Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (39.73%) Developer
2 96 (26.30%) Software Engineer
3 86 (23.56%) Senior
4 70 (19.18%) Analyst
5 57 (15.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 53 (14.52%) Java Developer
7 51 (13.97%) Lead
8 50 (13.70%) Business Analyst
9 46 (12.60%) Python Engineer
9 46 (12.60%) Python Software Engineer
10 45 (12.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (12.05%) Finance Manager
12 42 (11.51%) Java Engineer
12 42 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (10.41%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (10.41%) Senior Developer
14 36 (9.86%) AWS Software Engineer
15 35 (9.59%) Financial Analyst
16 33 (9.04%) Python Developer
17 32 (8.77%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (31.51%) gRPC
1 115 (31.51%) Pandas
1 115 (31.51%) Protocol Buffers
2 109 (29.86%) NumPy
2 109 (29.86%) SciPy
3 56 (15.34%) React
4 32 (8.77%) .NET
5 21 (5.75%) .NET Core
5 21 (5.75%) Redux
6 20 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (3.84%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.84%) CSS
7 14 (3.84%) HTML
8 12 (3.29%) Vue
9 10 (2.74%) Middleware
10 9 (2.47%) Rendezvous
11 7 (1.92%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (1.92%) Material-UI
11 7 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 214 (58.63%) Derivative
1 214 (58.63%) Fixed Income
2 197 (53.97%) Equities
3 169 (46.30%) Hedge funds
4 41 (11.23%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.84%) Pricing Data
7 13 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.01%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.10%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.82%) PMI
15 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.58%) Unix
2 23 (6.30%) Linux
3 10 (2.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (64.11%) Agile
2 184 (50.41%) Asset Management
3 153 (41.92%) Software Engineering
4 146 (40.00%) Investment Management
5 58 (15.89%) Analytics
6 52 (14.25%) Line Management
7 40 (10.96%) Fintech
8 39 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (10.41%) Low Latency
10 37 (10.14%) Greeks
11 36 (9.86%) Electronic Trading
12 34 (9.32%) TDD
13 31 (8.49%) DevOps
14 30 (8.22%) E-Commerce
15 29 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (7.95%) Machine Learning
16 25 (6.85%) Full Stack Development
16 25 (6.85%) Product Management
17 22 (6.03%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (6.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (52.88%) Python
2 182 (49.86%) Java
3 162 (44.38%) JavaScript
4 142 (38.90%) TypeScript
5 66 (18.08%) SQL
6 41 (11.23%) C#
7 14 (3.84%) C++
8 9 (2.47%) Perl
9 6 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.64%) Ruby
9 6 (1.64%) Scala
10 5 (1.37%) VBA
11 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.55%) VB
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (4.66%) Degree
2 11 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.19%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.82%) CCNA
5 3 (0.82%) CISA
5 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.82%) CISM
5 3 (0.82%) CISSP
5 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.12%) QA
3 6 (1.64%) MiFID
4 5 (1.37%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) GAAP
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.10%) Docker
3 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.10%) Ansible
2 4 (1.10%) Control-M
2 4 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.55%) Terraform
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.48%) Bloomberg
3 15 (4.11%) ION Trading
4 12 (3.29%) BISAM
4 12 (3.29%) TIBCO
5 11 (3.01%) Murex
5 11 (3.01%) Oracle
5 11 (3.01%) Solace
6 5 (1.37%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.10%) Calypso
7 4 (1.10%) SAP
7 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.10%) Tradeweb
8 3 (0.82%) Cisco
8 3 (0.82%) Okta
8 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.82%) Qualys
8 3 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.55%) IBM