Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 254 278
Rank change year-on-year +154 +24 -66
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 710 440 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.90% 1.39% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.25% 3.02% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 663 398 869
10th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £68,600
25th Percentile £85,000 £82,813 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £145,000 £135,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
England median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,798 14,564 37,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.99% 46.04% 51.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,828 10,067 15,655
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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)
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London.

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -10 24 £95,000 -7.32% 11
East London +23 1 £75,000 -
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
1 333 (46.90%) Apache
2 326 (45.92%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.97%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 1 (0.14%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 525 (73.94%) AWS
2 330 (46.48%) dbt
3 300 (42.25%) Snowflake
4 239 (33.66%) GCP
5 117 (16.48%) Azure
6 18 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.13%) Serverless
11 7 (0.99%) SaaS
12 6 (0.85%) WhatsApp
13 5 (0.70%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.42%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.42%) Azure Key Vault
15 2 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
16 1 (0.14%) Power Automate
16 1 (0.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) OpenVPN
2 4 (0.56%) Internet
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) LAN
3 3 (0.42%) WAN
3 3 (0.42%) Wireless
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) FTP
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (46.48%) Apache Arrow
1 330 (46.48%) Dremio
2 316 (44.51%) Data Lake
3 314 (44.23%) Amazon Athena
3 314 (44.23%) Apache Ignite
4 19 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.54%) Power BI
6 16 (2.25%) Big Data
6 16 (2.25%) Tableau
7 10 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.27%) DB2
9 7 (0.99%) MySQL
10 4 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.42%) Tick Data
12 2 (0.28%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
1 7 (0.99%) JIRA
2 4 (0.56%) Git
3 3 (0.42%) GitLab
3 3 (0.42%) Maven
3 3 (0.42%) Protractor
4 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.14%) GCC
4 1 (0.14%) GDB
4 1 (0.14%) Gradle
4 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.14%) Selenium
4 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 627 (88.31%) Finance
2 531 (74.79%) Front Office
3 366 (51.55%) Banking
4 360 (50.70%) Investment Banking
5 56 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 49 (6.90%) Back Office
7 27 (3.80%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (0.99%) Legal
10 6 (0.85%) Retail
11 5 (0.70%) Games
11 5 (0.70%) Law
12 3 (0.42%) Advertising
13 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.28%) International Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.14%) Marketing
14 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (41.83%) Developer
2 281 (39.58%) Software Engineer
3 212 (29.86%) Senior
4 161 (22.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 161 (22.68%) Senior Software Engineer
5 159 (22.39%) Lead
6 127 (17.89%) Python Engineer
6 127 (17.89%) Python Software Engineer
7 121 (17.04%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (16.62%) AWS Software Engineer
9 115 (16.20%) Java Engineer
9 115 (16.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 99 (13.94%) Senior Developer
11 95 (13.38%) Analyst
11 95 (13.38%) Java Developer
12 93 (13.10%) .NET Developer
13 89 (12.54%) Lead Developer
14 84 (11.83%) Finance Manager
15 81 (11.41%) .NET Software Engineer
16 79 (11.13%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (45.92%) Pandas
2 324 (45.63%) gRPC
2 324 (45.63%) Protocol Buffers
3 313 (44.08%) NumPy
3 313 (44.08%) SciPy
4 123 (17.32%) AngularJS
5 114 (16.06%) React
6 107 (15.07%) .NET
7 91 (12.82%) Vue
8 85 (11.97%) Redux
9 69 (9.72%) .NET Core
10 37 (5.21%) ASP.NET
11 36 (5.07%) ASP.NET Core
12 32 (4.51%) Spring Boot
13 22 (3.10%) Spring
14 20 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
15 19 (2.68%) CSS
15 19 (2.68%) HTML
16 16 (2.25%) Hibernate
17 12 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 528 (74.37%) Equities
2 513 (72.25%) Fixed Income
3 487 (68.59%) Derivative
4 482 (67.89%) Hedge funds
5 69 (9.72%) Product Ownership
6 48 (6.76%) Pricing Data
7 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.27%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (0.70%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.56%) 3D Graphics
13 4 (0.56%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.56%) Ray Tracing
13 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.42%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.62%) Linux
2 16 (2.25%) Unix
3 10 (1.41%) Windows
4 6 (0.85%) CentOS
5 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (70.28%) Asset Management
2 480 (67.61%) Agile
3 447 (62.96%) Software Engineering
4 405 (57.04%) Investment Management
5 128 (18.03%) Greeks
6 125 (17.61%) Line Management
7 103 (14.51%) Analytics
8 97 (13.66%) Fintech
9 74 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
10 65 (9.15%) Machine Learning
11 59 (8.31%) Low Latency
12 58 (8.17%) Artificial Intelligence
13 54 (7.61%) DevOps
14 51 (7.18%) Problem-Solving
14 51 (7.18%) TDD
15 44 (6.20%) Computer Science
15 44 (6.20%) Product Management
16 39 (5.49%) Electronic Trading
17 36 (5.07%) Portfolio Management
18 35 (4.93%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 508 (71.55%) Python
2 442 (62.25%) JavaScript
3 420 (59.15%) TypeScript
4 416 (58.59%) Java
5 186 (26.20%) SQL
6 142 (20.00%) C#
7 34 (4.79%) C++
8 12 (1.69%) Ruby
8 12 (1.69%) Scala
9 8 (1.13%) C
9 8 (1.13%) Rust
10 7 (0.99%) VBA
11 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.70%) Bash
13 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.42%) Erlang
15 2 (0.28%) Perl
16 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
16 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 44 (6.20%) Degree
2 20 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 16 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.41%) PhD
5 7 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) ACCA
8 1 (0.14%) CFA
8 1 (0.14%) CIMA
8 1 (0.14%) CISA
8 1 (0.14%) CISM
8 1 (0.14%) MBA
8 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.49%) QA
3 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.28%) SEPA
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.14%) P3O
5 1 (0.14%) PMO
5 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
5 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (3.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.42%) Control-M
3 2 (0.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (5.35%) Bloomberg
2 14 (1.97%) BISAM
3 13 (1.83%) Reuters
4 7 (0.99%) Microsoft
5 6 (0.85%) FFastFill
5 6 (0.85%) Murex
5 6 (0.85%) Refinitiv
6 5 (0.70%) Oracle
7 4 (0.56%) SAP
7 4 (0.56%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.42%) Citrix
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.42%) VMware
9 2 (0.28%) Databricks
9 2 (0.28%) Sophis
10 1 (0.14%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.14%) Planview
10 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.14%) Solace
10 1 (0.14%) Vertica