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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 223 261
Rank change year-on-year -25 +38 -32
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 401 678 945
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.18% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 3.56% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 558 801
10th Percentile £559 £536 £538
25th Percentile £659 £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 £543 £531
% change year-on-year +10.50% +2.21% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +49.42% -
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 12,884 19,058 29,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.27% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,300 13,119 20,342
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 629 713
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.41 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.51% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.96 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +3.53% -11.46%

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 19 May 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)
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 19 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
England -23 389 £800 +6.67% 241
London -16 347 £800 +6.67% 209
Work from Home +37 170 £800 +6.67% 82
UK excluding London +82 42 £600 +10.50% 68
South West +31 20 £570 - 14
Midlands +30 9 £600 - 3
East Midlands +23 6 £600 -
East of England - 6 £600 - 5
West Midlands +26 3 - - 3
South East +23 3 £600 - 33
Scotland +40 2 £539 -23.07% 6
North of England +25 2 £625 +25.00% 4
North West +9 2 £625 +25.00% 4

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 99 (24.69%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (23.69%) Apache
3 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 14 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.99%) Aladdin
3 10 (2.49%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.25%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.25%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.00%) Markit EDM
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (1.00%) thinkFolio
6 3 (0.75%) Endur
6 3 (0.75%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.50%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.25%) Actimize
8 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.25%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 164 (40.90%) AWS
2 94 (23.44%) dbt
3 89 (22.19%) GCP
4 86 (21.45%) Snowflake
5 53 (13.22%) Azure
6 18 (4.49%) GitHub
7 12 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.00%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.75%) PaaS
12 6 (1.50%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.50%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.25%) npm
13 5 (1.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.00%) Internet
2 3 (0.75%) HTTP
3 2 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (23.44%) Apache Arrow
1 94 (23.44%) Dremio
2 92 (22.94%) Amazon Athena
2 92 (22.94%) Apache Ignite
3 87 (21.70%) Data Lake
4 30 (7.48%) KDB
5 11 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.24%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.00%) Data Mart
8 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
9 4 (1.00%) Metadata
9 4 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.75%) Tableau
11 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.50%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.50%) Power Query
12 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (9.98%) JIRA
2 22 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.24%) Git
3 13 (3.24%) GoogleTest
4 6 (1.50%) Postman
4 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.25%) webpack
6 4 (1.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.50%) Babel
7 2 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 260 (64.84%) Finance
2 224 (55.86%) Front Office
3 195 (48.63%) Banking
4 141 (35.16%) Investment Banking
5 67 (16.71%) Social Skills
6 34 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.99%) Back Office
8 7 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.50%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.25%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Retail
12 2 (0.50%) Billing
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Law
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Legal
13 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 153 (38.15%) Developer
2 98 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 85 (21.20%) Senior
4 79 (19.70%) Analyst
5 58 (14.46%) Business Analyst
6 55 (13.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 53 (13.22%) Java Developer
8 50 (12.47%) Lead
9 46 (11.47%) Java Engineer
9 46 (11.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (10.72%) Finance Manager
11 41 (10.22%) Senior Developer
12 38 (9.48%) Python Engineer
12 38 (9.48%) Python Software Engineer
13 37 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (7.98%) Financial Analyst
15 30 (7.48%) .NET Developer
15 30 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (7.48%) Python Developer
16 29 (7.23%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (24.19%) gRPC
1 97 (24.19%) Pandas
1 97 (24.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 91 (22.69%) NumPy
2 91 (22.69%) SciPy
3 57 (14.21%) React
4 34 (8.48%) .NET
5 24 (5.99%) FIX Protocol
6 23 (5.74%) Redux
7 21 (5.24%) .NET Core
8 16 (3.99%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.74%) CSS
9 15 (3.74%) HTML
9 15 (3.74%) Qt
10 14 (3.49%) Vue
11 10 (2.49%) Middleware
12 9 (2.24%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.24%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (2.24%) Web Services
13 8 (2.00%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 197 (49.13%) Derivative
2 196 (48.88%) Fixed Income
3 181 (45.14%) Equities
4 151 (37.66%) Hedge funds
5 39 (9.73%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.49%) Pricing Data
10 8 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.00%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.75%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.98%) Linux
2 23 (5.74%) Unix
3 10 (2.49%) Windows
4 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (59.85%) Agile
2 166 (41.40%) Asset Management
3 150 (37.41%) Software Engineering
4 135 (33.67%) Investment Management
5 53 (13.22%) DevOps
6 52 (12.97%) Analytics
7 44 (10.97%) Line Management
8 43 (10.72%) Fintech
9 42 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.48%) Electronic Trading
10 38 (9.48%) TDD
11 37 (9.23%) Low Latency
12 31 (7.73%) CI/CD
12 31 (7.73%) Greeks
12 31 (7.73%) Machine Learning
13 30 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (6.98%) Full Stack Development
15 27 (6.73%) E-Commerce
16 26 (6.48%) Risk Management
17 25 (6.23%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (45.64%) Python
2 176 (43.89%) Java
3 147 (36.66%) JavaScript
4 128 (31.92%) TypeScript
5 66 (16.46%) SQL
6 43 (10.72%) C#
7 28 (6.98%) C++
8 9 (2.24%) Perl
9 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.50%) Ruby
9 6 (1.50%) Scala
10 5 (1.25%) VBA
11 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.50%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (4.74%) Degree
2 11 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.75%) CCNA
6 3 (0.75%) CISA
6 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.75%) CISM
6 3 (0.75%) CISSP
6 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.50%) ISEB
7 2 (0.50%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.23%) QA
3 15 (3.74%) MISRA
4 8 (2.00%) MiFID
4 8 (2.00%) SEPA
5 4 (1.00%) EMIR
5 4 (1.00%) GAAP
6 2 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.00%) Docker
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.00%) Ansible
2 4 (1.00%) Control-M
2 4 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.50%) Terraform
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.49%) Bloomberg
3 20 (4.99%) SAP
4 16 (3.99%) Murex
5 15 (3.74%) Google
6 14 (3.49%) ION Trading
6 14 (3.49%) Oracle
7 12 (2.99%) BISAM
8 11 (2.74%) TIBCO
9 10 (2.49%) Solace
10 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.25%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.00%) Tradeweb
13 3 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
13 3 (0.75%) Calypso
13 3 (0.75%) Cisco
13 3 (0.75%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.75%) Qualys
13 3 (0.75%) VMware