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 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 223 462 480
Rank change year-on-year +239 +18 -9
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 504 178 471
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 480 161 266
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £79,012
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% +32.35%
75th Percentile £146,250 £115,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £218,750
UK median annual salary £113,750 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.00%

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 12,201 14,971 35,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 38.93% 47.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,269 11,057 17,188
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,544 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,533 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 1 June 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
1 289 (57.34%) Apache
2 286 (56.75%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 391 (77.58%) AWS
2 286 (56.75%) dbt
3 262 (51.98%) Snowflake
4 170 (33.73%) GCP
5 72 (14.29%) Azure
6 28 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.58%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.79%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.19%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.79%) SaaS
10 4 (0.79%) Serverless
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.20%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) 3G
1 6 (1.19%) 4G
1 6 (1.19%) LTE
1 6 (1.19%) OpenVPN
1 6 (1.19%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.19%) VSAT
1 6 (1.19%) Wireless
2 4 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (56.75%) Apache Arrow
1 286 (56.75%) Dremio
2 274 (54.37%) Amazon Athena
2 274 (54.37%) Apache Ignite
2 274 (54.37%) Data Lake
3 20 (3.97%) Power BI
4 13 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.38%) Big Data
5 12 (2.38%) Tableau
6 6 (1.19%) DB2
7 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.20%) Metadata
7 1 (0.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (1.39%) JIRA
2 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.60%) Protractor
3 2 (0.40%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 448 (88.89%) Finance
2 383 (75.99%) Front Office
3 295 (58.53%) Banking
4 286 (56.75%) Investment Banking
5 56 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 44 (8.73%) Back Office
7 15 (2.98%) Law
8 14 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.19%) Military
9 6 (1.19%) Retail
10 5 (0.99%) Games
10 5 (0.99%) Marketing
11 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.40%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.40%) International Banking
14 1 (0.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 221 (43.85%) Software Engineer
2 179 (35.52%) Senior
3 173 (34.33%) Developer
4 149 (29.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 125 (24.80%) Lead
6 114 (22.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 113 (22.42%) Python Engineer
7 113 (22.42%) Python Software Engineer
8 101 (20.04%) Java Engineer
8 101 (20.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 100 (19.84%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (19.84%) AWS Software Engineer
10 76 (15.08%) Senior Developer
11 65 (12.90%) Lead Developer
12 63 (12.50%) Software Developer
13 62 (12.30%) Senior Java Engineer
13 62 (12.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 58 (11.51%) Senior Software Developer
14 58 (11.51%) Technical Leader
15 56 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (56.75%) gRPC
1 286 (56.75%) Pandas
1 286 (56.75%) Protocol Buffers
2 274 (54.37%) NumPy
2 274 (54.37%) SciPy
3 75 (14.88%) AngularJS
4 64 (12.70%) React
5 61 (12.10%) .NET
6 54 (10.71%) Vue
7 48 (9.52%) Redux
8 31 (6.15%) ASP.NET
9 29 (5.75%) ASP.NET Core
10 27 (5.36%) .NET Core
11 19 (3.77%) HTML
11 19 (3.77%) Spring
11 19 (3.77%) Spring Boot
12 18 (3.57%) CSS
13 16 (3.17%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.38%) Material-UI
15 11 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 385 (76.39%) Equities
2 379 (75.20%) Fixed Income
3 378 (75.00%) Derivative
4 369 (73.21%) Hedge funds
5 46 (9.13%) Product Ownership
6 42 (8.33%) Pricing Data
7 9 (1.79%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (0.79%) Ray Tracing
10 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.40%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.40%) FPGA
11 2 (0.40%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.40%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Contract for Difference
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.37%) Linux
2 8 (1.59%) Windows
3 6 (1.19%) CentOS
4 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (75.40%) Asset Management
2 370 (73.41%) Agile
3 354 (70.24%) Software Engineering
4 318 (63.10%) Investment Management
5 116 (23.02%) Greeks
6 107 (21.23%) Line Management
7 75 (14.88%) Analytics
8 42 (8.33%) Product Management
9 36 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 36 (7.14%) Machine Learning
10 30 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (4.76%) Fintech
11 24 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (3.77%) Low Latency
13 16 (3.17%) Business Analysis
13 16 (3.17%) Computer Science
13 16 (3.17%) Mentoring
14 14 (2.78%) Change Control
14 14 (2.78%) Electronic Trading
14 14 (2.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 400 (79.37%) Python
2 347 (68.85%) JavaScript
3 341 (67.66%) TypeScript
4 321 (63.69%) Java
5 104 (20.63%) SQL
6 82 (16.27%) C#
7 14 (2.78%) Ruby
8 12 (2.38%) C++
8 12 (2.38%) Scala
9 6 (1.19%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.79%) C
11 3 (0.60%) Erlang
12 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (5.75%) Degree
2 9 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.19%) GCSC
4 4 (0.79%) ACCA
4 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.79%) CIMA
5 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.40%) PhD
5 2 (0.40%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.40%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (23.02%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.98%) SLA
3 2 (0.40%) SEPA
4 1 (0.20%) P3O
4 1 (0.20%) PMO
4 1 (0.20%) QA
4 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 13 (2.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.57%) SAP
3 6 (1.19%) Cisco
3 6 (1.19%) HP
3 6 (1.19%) Murex
4 2 (0.40%) Sophis
5 1 (0.20%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle
5 1 (0.20%) Planview
5 1 (0.20%) Solace