Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies. 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 237 220 260
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 -25
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 426 670 950
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.20% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.29% 3.59% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 548 810
10th Percentile £572 £525 £538
25th Percentile £663 £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 - £950 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.88% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £43.00

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -23 414 £800 +6.67% 196
London -13 365 £800 +6.67% 160
Work from Home +66 192 £800 +6.67% 66
UK excluding London +70 49 £600 +20.00% 32
South West +29 24 £570 - 12
Midlands +30 9 £600 - 2
East Midlands +17 6 £600 -
East of England +9 6 £600 +20.00% 2
South East +13 5 £600 +20.00% 6
North of England +18 3 £625 +25.00% 5
North West +16 3 £625 +25.00% 5
West Midlands +16 3 - - 2
Scotland +38 2 £539 -23.07% 3

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
1 117 (27.46%) Apache
1 117 (27.46%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 15 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.82%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.58%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.17%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.17%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.17%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.94%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.94%) thinkFolio
6 3 (0.70%) Endur
7 2 (0.47%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.23%) Actimize
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.23%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 184 (43.19%) AWS
2 116 (27.23%) dbt
3 103 (24.18%) Snowflake
4 95 (22.30%) GCP
5 49 (11.50%) Azure
6 22 (5.16%) GitHub
7 15 (3.52%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.64%) PaaS
10 7 (1.64%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.64%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.41%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.41%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.17%) npm
12 5 (1.17%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) HTTPS
1 4 (0.94%) Internet
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
2 2 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (27.23%) Apache Arrow
1 116 (27.23%) Dremio
2 110 (25.82%) Amazon Athena
2 110 (25.82%) Apache Ignite
3 109 (25.59%) Data Lake
4 32 (7.51%) KDB
5 9 (2.11%) Power BI
5 9 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.64%) Data Mart
7 7 (1.64%) Tableau
8 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.41%) Big Data
9 4 (0.94%) Metadata
9 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.47%) Power Query
11 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (10.33%) JIRA
2 27 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.99%) GoogleTest
4 14 (3.29%) Git
5 6 (1.41%) Postman
5 6 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.17%) webpack
7 4 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.47%) Babel
8 2 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.47%) Selenium
8 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.23%) Ant
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.23%) Maven
General
1 283 (66.43%) Finance
2 242 (56.81%) Front Office
3 222 (52.11%) Banking
4 163 (38.26%) Investment Banking
5 67 (15.73%) Social Skills
6 37 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.76%) Back Office
8 8 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.41%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.17%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Retail
12 2 (0.47%) Billing
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 160 (37.56%) Developer
2 112 (26.29%) Software Engineer
3 95 (22.30%) Senior
4 79 (18.54%) Analyst
5 58 (13.62%) Java Engineer
5 58 (13.62%) Java Software Engineer
6 57 (13.38%) Business Analyst
6 57 (13.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 57 (13.38%) Java Developer
7 52 (12.21%) Lead
8 46 (10.80%) Python Engineer
8 46 (10.80%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (10.33%) Finance Manager
11 42 (9.86%) Senior Developer
12 38 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (8.69%) Python Developer
14 36 (8.45%) AWS Software Engineer
15 35 (8.22%) Financial Analyst
16 32 (7.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (27.00%) gRPC
1 115 (27.00%) Pandas
1 115 (27.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 109 (25.59%) NumPy
2 109 (25.59%) SciPy
3 56 (13.15%) React
4 32 (7.51%) .NET
5 23 (5.40%) FIX Protocol
6 21 (4.93%) .NET Core
6 21 (4.93%) Redux
7 19 (4.46%) Qt
8 14 (3.29%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.29%) CSS
8 14 (3.29%) HTML
9 12 (2.82%) Vue
10 10 (2.35%) Middleware
11 9 (2.11%) Rendezvous
11 9 (2.11%) Web Services
12 7 (1.64%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 222 (52.11%) Derivative
2 214 (50.23%) Fixed Income
3 201 (47.18%) Equities
4 169 (39.67%) Hedge funds
5 42 (9.86%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.52%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.29%) Pricing Data
8 14 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
15 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.70%) PMI
16 2 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.62%) Linux
2 24 (5.63%) Unix
3 10 (2.35%) Windows
4 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (61.97%) Agile
2 184 (43.19%) Asset Management
3 170 (39.91%) Software Engineering
4 146 (34.27%) Investment Management
5 58 (13.62%) Analytics
6 54 (12.68%) DevOps
7 52 (12.21%) Line Management
8 44 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (9.39%) Fintech
10 39 (9.15%) Electronic Trading
11 38 (8.92%) Low Latency
12 37 (8.69%) Greeks
13 35 (8.22%) CI/CD
14 34 (7.98%) TDD
15 30 (7.04%) E-Commerce
16 29 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
16 29 (6.81%) Machine Learning
17 25 (5.87%) Full Stack Development
17 25 (5.87%) Product Management
18 24 (5.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 214 (50.23%) Python
2 202 (47.42%) Java
3 162 (38.03%) JavaScript
4 142 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 72 (16.90%) SQL
6 41 (9.62%) C#
7 33 (7.75%) C++
8 9 (2.11%) Perl
9 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.41%) Ruby
9 6 (1.41%) Scala
10 5 (1.17%) VBA
11 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.47%) VB
13 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (4.46%) Degree
2 11 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (1.88%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.70%) CCNA
6 3 (0.70%) CISA
6 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.70%) CISM
6 3 (0.70%) CISSP
6 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.47%) ISEB
7 2 (0.47%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.09%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.10%) QA
3 19 (4.46%) MISRA
4 8 (1.88%) MiFID
4 8 (1.88%) SEPA
5 4 (0.94%) EMIR
5 4 (0.94%) GAAP
6 2 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.94%) Docker
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.94%) Ansible
2 4 (0.94%) Control-M
2 4 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.47%) Terraform
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.16%) Bloomberg
3 21 (4.93%) SAP
4 19 (4.46%) Google
5 15 (3.52%) ION Trading
6 14 (3.29%) Oracle
7 12 (2.82%) BISAM
7 12 (2.82%) Murex
7 12 (2.82%) TIBCO
8 11 (2.58%) Solace
9 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.17%) Refinitiv
11 4 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.94%) Calypso
11 4 (0.94%) Tradeweb
12 3 (0.70%) Cisco
12 3 (0.70%) Okta
12 3 (0.70%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.70%) Qualys
12 3 (0.70%) VMware