Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs 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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 214 463 476
Rank change year-on-year +249 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 547 177 482
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.44% 1.20% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 523 161 276
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £79,799
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% +30.43%
75th Percentile £148,750 £115,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £137,500 £218,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,308 14,766 35,817
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.91% 38.89% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,284 10,976 17,452
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,865 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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)
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Foreign Exchange (FX) salary 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
1 331 (60.51%) Apache
2 324 (59.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 435 (79.52%) AWS
2 328 (59.96%) dbt
3 300 (54.84%) Snowflake
4 190 (34.73%) GCP
5 72 (13.16%) Azure
6 32 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.38%) Power Automate
9 12 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.10%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.73%) SaaS
12 4 (0.73%) Serverless
13 3 (0.55%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.37%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (0.18%) Microsoft 365
15 1 (0.18%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.10%) 3G
1 6 (1.10%) 4G
1 6 (1.10%) LTE
1 6 (1.10%) OpenVPN
1 6 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.10%) VSAT
1 6 (1.10%) Wireless
2 4 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.18%) FTP
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (59.96%) Apache Arrow
1 328 (59.96%) Dremio
2 316 (57.77%) Data Lake
3 312 (57.04%) Amazon Athena
3 312 (57.04%) Apache Ignite
4 24 (4.39%) Power BI
5 16 (2.93%) Big Data
5 16 (2.93%) Tableau
6 13 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.10%) DB2
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.18%) Metadata
8 1 (0.18%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (1.28%) JIRA
2 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.55%) Protractor
3 2 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 491 (89.76%) Finance
2 427 (78.06%) Front Office
3 337 (61.61%) Banking
4 328 (59.96%) Investment Banking
5 55 (10.05%) Social Skills
6 44 (8.04%) Back Office
7 15 (2.74%) Law
8 14 (2.56%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.10%) Military
10 6 (1.10%) Retail
11 5 (0.91%) Games
11 5 (0.91%) Marketing
12 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.37%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.37%) International Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (44.42%) Software Engineer
2 190 (34.73%) Senior
3 181 (33.09%) Developer
4 160 (29.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 140 (25.59%) Lead
6 127 (23.22%) Python Engineer
6 127 (23.22%) Python Software Engineer
7 124 (22.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 118 (21.57%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (21.57%) AWS Software Engineer
9 115 (21.02%) Java Engineer
9 115 (21.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 75 (13.71%) Senior Developer
11 74 (13.53%) Lead Developer
12 73 (13.35%) Software Developer
13 70 (12.80%) Senior Java Engineer
13 70 (12.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 66 (12.07%) Lead Software Developer
14 66 (12.07%) Lead Software Engineer
14 66 (12.07%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (59.23%) gRPC
1 324 (59.23%) Pandas
1 324 (59.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 312 (57.04%) NumPy
2 312 (57.04%) SciPy
3 75 (13.71%) AngularJS
4 64 (11.70%) React
5 61 (11.15%) .NET
6 54 (9.87%) Vue
7 48 (8.78%) Redux
8 31 (5.67%) ASP.NET
9 29 (5.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 27 (4.94%) .NET Core
11 19 (3.47%) HTML
11 19 (3.47%) Spring
11 19 (3.47%) Spring Boot
12 18 (3.29%) CSS
13 16 (2.93%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.19%) Material-UI
14 12 (2.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 428 (78.24%) Equities
2 422 (77.15%) Fixed Income
3 420 (76.78%) Derivative
4 412 (75.32%) Hedge funds
5 52 (9.51%) Product Ownership
6 48 (8.78%) Pricing Data
7 9 (1.65%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (0.73%) Ray Tracing
10 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.55%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.37%) FPGA
12 2 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.37%) Online Banking
13 1 (0.18%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.18%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.02%) Linux
2 8 (1.46%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) CentOS
4 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (77.33%) Asset Management
2 414 (75.69%) Agile
3 392 (71.66%) Software Engineering
4 343 (62.71%) Investment Management
5 128 (23.40%) Greeks
6 127 (23.22%) Line Management
7 80 (14.63%) Analytics
8 44 (8.04%) Product Management
9 38 (6.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (6.95%) Machine Learning
10 30 (5.48%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (4.39%) Fintech
11 24 (4.39%) Full Stack Development
12 20 (3.66%) Business Analysis
13 19 (3.47%) Low Latency
14 16 (2.93%) Computer Science
14 16 (2.93%) Mentoring
15 15 (2.74%) Electronic Trading
16 14 (2.56%) Front End Development
16 14 (2.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 444 (81.17%) Python
2 385 (70.38%) JavaScript
3 379 (69.29%) TypeScript
4 358 (65.45%) Java
5 122 (22.30%) SQL
6 82 (14.99%) C#
7 14 (2.56%) Ruby
8 12 (2.19%) Scala
9 11 (2.01%) C++
10 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.73%) C
12 3 (0.55%) Erlang
13 2 (0.37%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (5.30%) Degree
2 9 (1.65%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.10%) GCSC
4 4 (0.73%) ACCA
4 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.73%) CIMA
5 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.37%) PhD
5 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.37%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (23.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.83%) SLA
3 2 (0.37%) SEPA
4 1 (0.18%) P3O
4 1 (0.18%) PMO
4 1 (0.18%) QA
4 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 13 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.29%) SAP
3 12 (2.19%) Bloomberg
3 12 (2.19%) Reuters
4 6 (1.10%) Cisco
4 6 (1.10%) HP
4 6 (1.10%) Murex
5 2 (0.37%) Sophis
6 1 (0.18%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle
6 1 (0.18%) Planview
6 1 (0.18%) Solace