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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 100 124
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 352 648 918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.01% 2.49% 2.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.03% 6.93% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 538 787
10th Percentile £600 £546 £538
25th Percentile £680 £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 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 -
% change year-on-year +8.95% - -

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 5,841 9,345 14,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.42% 35.92% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,749 10,347
10th Percentile £313 £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 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 112 201
10th Percentile £15.49 £18.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +33.85%
75th Percentile £50.25 £63.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £84.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.92%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -48 31 £700 -6.67% 19
South London +10 7 £850 +100.00% 1
West London - 1 - - 1
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
1 103 (29.26%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (28.13%) Apache
3 5 (1.42%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.84%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.14%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.14%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.85%) Endur
4 3 (0.85%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.28%) Actimize
6 1 (0.28%) RMDS
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (47.44%) AWS
2 98 (27.84%) dbt
3 92 (26.14%) GCP
4 90 (25.57%) Snowflake
5 50 (14.20%) Azure
6 9 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.99%) PaaS
8 6 (1.70%) Azure API Management
8 6 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (1.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.70%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.42%) npm
9 5 (1.42%) Yarn
10 4 (1.14%) Collibra
10 4 (1.14%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.14%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (27.84%) Apache Arrow
1 98 (27.84%) Dremio
2 96 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
2 96 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
3 91 (25.85%) Data Lake
4 30 (8.52%) KDB
5 9 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.99%) Data Mart
7 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.14%) Metadata
8 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.14%) Power BI
9 3 (0.85%) Tableau
10 2 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.57%) Big Data
10 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.28%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (4.26%) JIRA
2 13 (3.69%) Git
3 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.70%) Postman
4 6 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.42%) webpack
6 4 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Babel
7 2 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 257 (73.01%) Finance
2 225 (63.92%) Front Office
3 189 (53.69%) Banking
4 143 (40.63%) Investment Banking
5 54 (15.34%) Social Skills
6 29 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.55%) Back Office
8 7 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.70%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (40.63%) Developer
2 87 (24.72%) Software Engineer
3 77 (21.88%) Senior
4 71 (20.17%) Analyst
5 56 (15.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 52 (14.77%) Java Developer
7 51 (14.49%) Business Analyst
7 51 (14.49%) Lead
8 42 (11.93%) Finance Manager
9 39 (11.08%) Python Engineer
9 39 (11.08%) Python Software Engineer
10 38 (10.80%) Senior Developer
11 37 (10.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (9.94%) Java Engineer
12 35 (9.94%) Java Software Engineer
13 32 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
14 31 (8.81%) Architect
14 31 (8.81%) Lead Developer
15 30 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (8.24%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (28.69%) gRPC
1 101 (28.69%) Pandas
1 101 (28.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 95 (26.99%) NumPy
2 95 (26.99%) SciPy
3 56 (15.91%) React
4 33 (9.38%) .NET
5 22 (6.25%) Redux
6 21 (5.97%) .NET Core
6 21 (5.97%) FIX Protocol
7 15 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.26%) CSS
7 15 (4.26%) HTML
8 13 (3.69%) Vue
9 10 (2.84%) Middleware
10 8 (2.27%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (2.27%) Rendezvous
11 7 (1.99%) Material-UI
11 7 (1.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 199 (56.53%) Fixed Income
2 195 (55.40%) Derivative
3 181 (51.42%) Equities
4 154 (43.75%) Hedge funds
5 38 (10.80%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.41%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.84%) Pricing Data
9 10 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.85%) PMI
15 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.53%) Unix
2 20 (5.68%) Linux
3 10 (2.84%) Windows
4 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (61.93%) Agile
2 169 (48.01%) Asset Management
3 140 (39.77%) Software Engineering
4 134 (38.07%) Investment Management
5 52 (14.77%) Analytics
6 48 (13.64%) Line Management
7 42 (11.93%) Fintech
8 39 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (10.80%) Low Latency
10 37 (10.51%) TDD
11 36 (10.23%) Electronic Trading
12 33 (9.38%) DevOps
13 31 (8.81%) Greeks
13 31 (8.81%) Machine Learning
14 30 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
15 28 (7.95%) E-Commerce
16 27 (7.67%) Full Stack Development
17 25 (7.10%) Product Management
18 23 (6.53%) Risk Management
19 22 (6.25%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 172 (48.86%) Python
2 166 (47.16%) Java
3 150 (42.61%) JavaScript
4 131 (37.22%) TypeScript
5 60 (17.05%) SQL
6 42 (11.93%) C#
7 13 (3.69%) C++
8 9 (2.56%) Perl
9 6 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.70%) Ruby
9 6 (1.70%) Scala
10 5 (1.42%) VBA
11 4 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.57%) VB
13 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (4.83%) Degree
2 11 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.85%) CCNA
5 3 (0.85%) CISA
5 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.85%) CISM
5 3 (0.85%) CISSP
5 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.51%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.95%) QA
3 6 (1.70%) MiFID
4 5 (1.42%) SEPA
5 4 (1.14%) GAAP
6 2 (0.57%) EMIR
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.14%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Ansible
2 4 (1.14%) Control-M
2 4 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.57%) Terraform
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (5.97%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.68%) Bloomberg
3 15 (4.26%) Murex
4 14 (3.98%) ION Trading
5 12 (3.41%) BISAM
6 11 (3.13%) Oracle
6 11 (3.13%) TIBCO
7 10 (2.84%) Solace
8 5 (1.42%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.14%) Tradeweb
10 3 (0.85%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (0.85%) Calypso
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco
10 3 (0.85%) Okta
10 3 (0.85%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.85%) Qualys
10 3 (0.85%) SAP
10 3 (0.85%) VMware