Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts 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 remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 224 324
Rank change year-on-year +73 +100 +23
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 224 248 336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.04% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.19% 3.29% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 199 260
10th Percentile £663 £533 £463
25th Percentile £725 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £888 £869 £800
90th Percentile - £1,063 £850
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Foreign Exchange (FX) falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,320 7,540 13,938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.25% 31.60% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,937 5,342 10,063
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £432 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 145 224
10th Percentile £15.80 £19.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.52% +8.00%

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)
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

Foreign Exchange (FX) daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Foreign Exchange (FX) daily rate 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
1 126 (56.25%) Apache
2 124 (55.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.89%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.89%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.89%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 153 (68.30%) AWS
2 126 (56.25%) dbt
3 112 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 65 (29.02%) GCP
5 14 (6.25%) Azure
6 13 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.34%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.34%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.89%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.89%) GitHub
11 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Firewall
1 2 (0.89%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (56.25%) Apache Arrow
1 126 (56.25%) Dremio
2 120 (53.57%) Data Lake
3 118 (52.68%) Amazon Athena
3 118 (52.68%) Apache Ignite
4 10 (4.46%) Power BI
5 9 (4.02%) KDB
6 8 (3.57%) Big Data
6 8 (3.57%) Tableau
7 6 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.89%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.89%) Power Query
10 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.23%) JIRA
3 4 (1.79%) Git
4 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 191 (85.27%) Finance
2 184 (82.14%) Front Office
3 160 (71.43%) Banking
4 140 (62.50%) Investment Banking
5 23 (10.27%) Social Skills
6 14 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.34%) Back Office
7 3 (1.34%) Retail
8 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.89%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 86 (38.39%) Software Engineer
2 83 (37.05%) Developer
3 67 (29.91%) Senior
4 56 (25.00%) Lead
5 54 (24.11%) Python Engineer
5 54 (24.11%) Python Software Engineer
6 50 (22.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 48 (21.43%) Java Engineer
7 48 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 46 (20.54%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (20.54%) AWS Software Engineer
9 44 (19.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 38 (16.96%) Software Developer
11 36 (16.07%) Lead Developer
11 36 (16.07%) Lead Software Developer
11 36 (16.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (16.07%) Software Team Leader
11 36 (16.07%) Team Leader
12 31 (13.84%) Python Developer
13 30 (13.39%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (55.36%) gRPC
1 124 (55.36%) Pandas
1 124 (55.36%) Protocol Buffers
2 118 (52.68%) NumPy
2 118 (52.68%) SciPy
3 17 (7.59%) React
4 9 (4.02%) HTML
5 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.13%) CSS
5 7 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.68%) Material-UI
6 6 (2.68%) PySpark
6 6 (2.68%) Vue
7 3 (1.34%) CSS3
7 3 (1.34%) HTML5
8 2 (0.89%) Murex MxML
8 2 (0.89%) Node.js
8 2 (0.89%) REST
8 2 (0.89%) Sass
8 2 (0.89%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 166 (74.11%) Derivative
2 164 (73.21%) Fixed Income
3 158 (70.54%) Equities
4 141 (62.95%) Hedge funds
5 26 (11.61%) Product Ownership
6 16 (7.14%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.45%) Animation
10 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (3.13%) Unix
3 6 (2.68%) Windows
4 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (73.21%) Agile
2 147 (65.63%) Asset Management
3 127 (56.70%) Software Engineering
4 109 (48.66%) Investment Management
5 53 (23.66%) Line Management
6 45 (20.09%) Analytics
7 43 (19.20%) Greeks
8 25 (11.16%) Product Management
9 19 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (6.70%) Machine Learning
11 12 (5.36%) Migration
12 11 (4.91%) Low Latency
12 11 (4.91%) OO
13 8 (3.57%) Business Analysis
13 8 (3.57%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (3.57%) Multithreading
14 7 (3.13%) Data Management
14 7 (3.13%) Roadmaps
14 7 (3.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 169 (75.45%) Python
2 141 (62.95%) Java
3 135 (60.27%) JavaScript
4 128 (57.14%) TypeScript
5 44 (19.64%) SQL
6 8 (3.57%) C#
7 7 (3.13%) C++
8 6 (2.68%) Perl
8 6 (2.68%) Ruby
8 6 (2.68%) Scala
9 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.79%) VBA
10 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (4.46%) Degree
2 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.23%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.89%) CCNA
4 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.79%) MiFID
3 2 (0.89%) EMIR
3 2 (0.89%) SEPA
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) QA
4 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) Ansible
2 2 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (4.46%) Bloomberg
1 10 (4.46%) Reuters
2 8 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.23%) SAP
4 4 (1.79%) Oracle
4 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.34%) Murex
5 3 (1.34%) Qualys
5 3 (1.34%) Solace
5 3 (1.34%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.34%) VMware
6 2 (0.89%) Calypso
6 2 (0.89%) Cisco
6 2 (0.89%) Okta
6 2 (0.89%) OpenText
7 1 (0.45%) Ariba
7 1 (0.45%) HP
7 1 (0.45%) IBM
7 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.45%) Perforce