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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 507 472
Rank change year-on-year +152 -35 -51
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 760 542 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.55% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 1.29% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 632 464 936
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £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 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -9.26%

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 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
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 £110,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +146 711 £115,000 +12.20% 193
London +150 628 £115,000 +9.52% 164
Work from Home +238 469 £115,000 +15.00% 76
UK excluding London +66 117 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South West +21 39 £42,015 -6.63% 11
Scotland -29 35 - - 6
South East +4 23 £55,000 -4.35% 2
East of England +8 10 - - 6
West Midlands +11 4 £32,000 - 3
Midlands -7 4 £32,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 - 4
North of England +32 2 - - 4
North West -5 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
1 262 (34.47%) Apache Airflow
2 259 (34.08%) Apache
3 21 (2.76%) GemFire
4 17 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.79%) nginx
7 4 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.39%) OpenZeppelin
9 1 (0.13%) Confluence
9 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.84%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 451 (59.34%) AWS
2 256 (33.68%) dbt
3 236 (31.05%) Snowflake
4 213 (28.03%) GCP
5 130 (17.11%) Azure
6 26 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 22 (2.89%) Power Automate
8 10 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.18%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.18%) Serverless
10 8 (1.05%) SaaS
11 6 (0.79%) WhatsApp
12 5 (0.66%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.18%) Wireless
2 6 (0.79%) 3G
2 6 (0.79%) 4G
2 6 (0.79%) LTE
2 6 (0.79%) OpenVPN
2 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.79%) VSAT
3 4 (0.53%) HTTP
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) IPFS
4 3 (0.39%) LAN
4 3 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (33.68%) Apache Arrow
1 256 (33.68%) Dremio
2 250 (32.89%) Amazon Athena
2 250 (32.89%) Apache Ignite
3 242 (31.84%) Data Lake
4 31 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (2.76%) CockroachDB
5 21 (2.76%) Hazelcast
6 20 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.37%) Power BI
8 11 (1.45%) Tableau
9 9 (1.18%) DB2
10 7 (0.92%) MySQL
11 6 (0.79%) Big Data
12 5 (0.66%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.39%) Data Mart
14 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.26%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (2.76%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.71%) JIRA
3 7 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.53%) Git
4 4 (0.53%) GitLab
5 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.39%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.39%) Maven
5 3 (0.39%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.39%) Protractor
5 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GCC
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) Gradle
7 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 642 (84.47%) Finance
2 474 (62.37%) Front Office
3 356 (46.84%) Banking
4 344 (45.26%) Investment Banking
5 113 (14.87%) Social Skills
6 76 (10.00%) Law
7 72 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.84%) Back Office
9 41 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.11%) Legal
12 16 (2.11%) Marketing
13 14 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.79%) Military
14 6 (0.79%) Retail
15 5 (0.66%) Games
16 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.53%) General Ledger
17 3 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 305 (40.13%) Developer
2 269 (35.39%) Software Engineer
3 199 (26.18%) Senior
4 161 (21.18%) Lead
5 149 (19.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 139 (18.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 130 (17.11%) Analyst
8 111 (14.61%) Java Engineer
8 111 (14.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 104 (13.68%) Senior Developer
10 102 (13.42%) Python Engineer
10 102 (13.42%) Python Software Engineer
11 97 (12.76%) .NET Developer
12 91 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
13 88 (11.58%) AWS Software Engineer
13 88 (11.58%) Java Developer
14 83 (10.92%) .NET Software Engineer
15 82 (10.79%) Business Analyst
16 81 (10.66%) .NET Software Developer
17 80 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (34.47%) Pandas
2 260 (34.21%) gRPC
2 260 (34.21%) Protocol Buffers
3 249 (32.76%) NumPy
3 249 (32.76%) SciPy
4 126 (16.58%) AngularJS
5 123 (16.18%) .NET
6 118 (15.53%) React
7 93 (12.24%) Vue
8 87 (11.45%) Redux
9 70 (9.21%) .NET Core
10 52 (6.84%) Spring Boot
11 43 (5.66%) Spring
12 41 (5.39%) ASP.NET
13 38 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
14 29 (3.82%) FIX Protocol
15 26 (3.42%) REST
16 25 (3.29%) CSS
17 24 (3.16%) Kafka
18 23 (3.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 459 (60.39%) Equities
2 448 (58.95%) Fixed Income
3 436 (57.37%) Derivative
4 419 (55.13%) Hedge funds
5 68 (8.95%) Product Ownership
6 36 (4.74%) Pricing Data
7 25 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.76%) Replication
9 19 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.37%) OTC Derivatives
11 14 (1.84%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.18%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 8 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (0.92%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.18%) Linux
2 16 (2.11%) Unix
3 12 (1.58%) Windows
4 9 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.79%) CentOS
6 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (60.13%) Agile
2 428 (56.32%) Asset Management
3 412 (54.21%) Software Engineering
4 360 (47.37%) Investment Management
5 113 (14.87%) Fintech
6 104 (13.68%) Greeks
7 99 (13.03%) Line Management
8 93 (12.24%) Analytics
9 77 (10.13%) Full Stack Development
10 67 (8.82%) DevOps
10 67 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (8.42%) Machine Learning
12 63 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
13 59 (7.76%) TDD
14 57 (7.50%) Low Latency
15 42 (5.53%) Electronic Trading
16 41 (5.39%) Computer Science
17 40 (5.26%) Product Management
18 38 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
19 37 (4.87%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 426 (56.05%) Python
2 396 (52.11%) JavaScript
3 380 (50.00%) Java
4 363 (47.76%) TypeScript
5 182 (23.95%) SQL
6 161 (21.18%) C#
7 35 (4.61%) C++
8 21 (2.76%) Groovy
9 14 (1.84%) Ruby
10 12 (1.58%) Scala
11 11 (1.45%) Rust
12 7 (0.92%) C
12 7 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.92%) VBA
13 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.66%) Bash
14 5 (0.66%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.53%) PHP
16 3 (0.39%) Erlang
16 3 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 55 (7.24%) Degree
2 15 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.84%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.79%) ACCA
5 6 (0.79%) CIMA
5 6 (0.79%) GCSC
6 5 (0.66%) PhD
6 5 (0.66%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.66%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.66%) QA
3 10 (1.32%) SLA
4 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.26%) SEPA
6 1 (0.13%) COREP
6 1 (0.13%) GDPR
6 1 (0.13%) IFRS
6 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.13%) P3O
6 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 24 (3.16%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.76%) Grafana
1 21 (2.76%) HAProxy
1 21 (2.76%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (2.76%) Kibana
1 21 (2.76%) Prometheus
1 21 (2.76%) Zipkin
2 18 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Control-M
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (4.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.55%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.76%) Dynatrace
3 21 (2.76%) SAP
3 21 (2.76%) Splunk
4 17 (2.24%) Alteryx
5 15 (1.97%) Oracle
6 14 (1.84%) BISAM
7 8 (1.05%) Murex
8 6 (0.79%) Cisco
8 6 (0.79%) FFastFill
8 6 (0.79%) HP
8 6 (0.79%) Refinitiv
9 5 (0.66%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.39%) Citrix
11 3 (0.39%) Foundry
11 3 (0.39%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.39%) VMware
12 2 (0.26%) IBM