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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 100 119
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 386 628 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.20% 2.49% 2.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.63% 6.92% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 520 796
10th Percentile £613 £525 £538
25th Percentile £700 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £728
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £813
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 9,074 14,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.19% 35.95% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 6,583 10,373
10th Percentile £315 £373 £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 £723
90th Percentile £850 £838 £807
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 106 204
10th Percentile £15.46 £17.88 £17.26
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.66 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -20.36% +20.74%
75th Percentile £50.63 £58.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +4.95%

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 8 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 8 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 £713 -5.00% 10
South London +12 8 £850 +100.00%
West London - 1 - - 6
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
1 132 (34.20%) Apache
2 130 (33.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.11%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.85%) ION MarketView
3 4 (1.04%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.04%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.78%) Endur
5 2 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.26%) Actimize
6 1 (0.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 200 (51.81%) AWS
2 131 (33.94%) dbt
3 116 (30.05%) Snowflake
4 102 (26.42%) GCP
5 46 (11.92%) Azure
6 9 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.81%) PaaS
8 6 (1.55%) Azure API Management
8 6 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.55%) Azure Storage
9 5 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.30%) npm
9 5 (1.30%) Yarn
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.78%) Collibra
12 2 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.04%) Internet
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (33.94%) Apache Arrow
1 131 (33.94%) Dremio
2 124 (32.12%) Data Lake
3 123 (31.87%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (31.87%) Apache Ignite
4 32 (8.29%) KDB
5 9 (2.33%) Power BI
5 9 (2.33%) Tableau
6 8 (2.07%) Big Data
6 8 (2.07%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.81%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.55%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.78%) Metadata
10 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.26%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (3.89%) JIRA
2 14 (3.63%) Git
3 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.55%) Postman
4 6 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.30%) webpack
6 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.52%) Babel
7 2 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.52%) Maven
7 2 (0.52%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) FitNesse
General
1 289 (74.87%) Finance
2 255 (66.06%) Front Office
3 226 (58.55%) Banking
4 179 (46.37%) Investment Banking
5 55 (14.25%) Social Skills
6 32 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.15%) Back Office
8 8 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.55%) Wholesale Banking
10 4 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.04%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Billing
13 1 (0.26%) Law
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (40.67%) Developer
2 103 (26.68%) Software Engineer
3 91 (23.58%) Senior
4 68 (17.62%) Analyst
5 60 (15.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 57 (14.77%) Java Developer
7 56 (14.51%) Lead
8 51 (13.21%) Python Engineer
8 51 (13.21%) Python Software Engineer
9 49 (12.69%) Business Analyst
9 49 (12.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 47 (12.18%) Java Engineer
10 47 (12.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (11.66%) Finance Manager
12 44 (11.40%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (10.88%) AWS Software Engineer
14 39 (10.10%) Senior Developer
15 38 (9.84%) Python Developer
16 37 (9.59%) Financial Analyst
17 36 (9.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (33.16%) gRPC
1 128 (33.16%) Pandas
1 128 (33.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 122 (31.61%) NumPy
2 122 (31.61%) SciPy
3 58 (15.03%) React
4 32 (8.29%) .NET
5 21 (5.44%) .NET Core
5 21 (5.44%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (5.18%) Redux
7 14 (3.63%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.63%) CSS
7 14 (3.63%) HTML
8 11 (2.85%) Middleware
8 11 (2.85%) Vue
9 9 (2.33%) Rendezvous
10 7 (1.81%) Material-UI
10 7 (1.81%) Web Services
11 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 232 (60.10%) Derivative
2 231 (59.84%) Fixed Income
3 213 (55.18%) Equities
4 183 (47.41%) Hedge funds
5 43 (11.14%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (4.15%) Pricing Data
8 13 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (3.11%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.07%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
15 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.78%) PMI
16 2 (0.52%) Credit Derivative
16 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.22%) Linux
1 24 (6.22%) Unix
2 10 (2.59%) Windows
3 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (64.77%) Agile
2 198 (51.30%) Asset Management
3 165 (42.75%) Software Engineering
4 152 (39.38%) Investment Management
5 61 (15.80%) Analytics
6 60 (15.54%) Line Management
7 42 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (10.36%) Greeks
9 39 (10.10%) Fintech
9 39 (10.10%) Low Latency
10 36 (9.33%) Electronic Trading
11 33 (8.55%) TDD
12 30 (7.77%) DevOps
12 30 (7.77%) E-Commerce
13 29 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (7.51%) Machine Learning
14 27 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (6.74%) Product Management
16 24 (6.22%) Test Automation
17 23 (5.96%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 212 (54.92%) Python
2 199 (51.55%) Java
3 177 (45.85%) JavaScript
4 156 (40.41%) TypeScript
5 74 (19.17%) SQL
6 42 (10.88%) C#
7 16 (4.15%) C++
8 9 (2.33%) Perl
9 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.55%) Ruby
9 6 (1.55%) Scala
10 5 (1.30%) VBA
11 4 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.52%) VB
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (4.66%) Degree
2 12 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.07%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.78%) CCNA
5 3 (0.78%) CISA
5 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.78%) CISM
5 3 (0.78%) CISSP
5 3 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.66%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.74%) QA
3 6 (1.55%) MiFID
4 5 (1.30%) SEPA
5 4 (1.04%) GAAP
6 2 (0.52%) EMIR
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.04%) Docker
3 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.04%) Ansible
2 4 (1.04%) Control-M
2 4 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (6.22%) Bloomberg
2 20 (5.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.89%) ION Trading
4 12 (3.11%) BISAM
4 12 (3.11%) TIBCO
5 11 (2.85%) Oracle
5 11 (2.85%) Solace
6 10 (2.59%) Murex
7 5 (1.30%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.04%) Calypso
8 4 (1.04%) Reuters
8 4 (1.04%) SAP
8 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.04%) Tradeweb
9 3 (0.78%) Cisco
9 3 (0.78%) Okta
9 3 (0.78%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.78%) Qualys
9 3 (0.78%) VMware