Foreign Exchange (FX) Contracts in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 194 218
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 461 643 938
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.37% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.06% 4.07% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 525 810
10th Percentile £577 £525 £538
25th Percentile £675 £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 £810
90th Percentile £899 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £725
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £43.00

All Generic Skills
England

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 requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Foreign Exchange (FX) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Daily rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in England

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -7 400 £800 +6.67% 140
South West +34 33 £570 - 11
Midlands +24 9 £600 - 1
South East +19 7 £600 +20.00% 5
East Midlands +12 6 £600 -
East of England +9 6 £600 +20.00% 3
West Midlands +20 3 - - 1
North of England +12 3 £625 +25.00% 6
North West +10 3 £625 +25.00% 6
Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 143 (31.02%) Apache
2 141 (30.59%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.52%) Confluence
3 7 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.60%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.39%) ION MarketView
4 5 (1.08%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.08%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.87%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.87%) thinkFolio
6 3 (0.65%) Endur
7 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.22%) Actimize
8 1 (0.22%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 210 (45.55%) AWS
2 142 (30.80%) dbt
3 127 (27.55%) Snowflake
4 109 (23.64%) GCP
5 45 (9.76%) Azure
6 30 (6.51%) GitHub
7 14 (3.04%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.52%) PaaS
11 6 (1.30%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.30%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.30%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) HTTPS
1 4 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (30.80%) Apache Arrow
1 142 (30.80%) Dremio
2 135 (29.28%) Data Lake
3 134 (29.07%) Amazon Athena
3 134 (29.07%) Apache Ignite
4 33 (7.16%) KDB
5 9 (1.95%) Power BI
5 9 (1.95%) Tableau
6 8 (1.74%) Big Data
6 8 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.08%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.65%) Metadata
11 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 51 (11.06%) JIRA
2 37 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.86%) GoogleTest
4 15 (3.25%) Git
5 6 (1.30%) Maven
5 6 (1.30%) Postman
5 6 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.08%) webpack
7 4 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.43%) Babel
8 2 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.43%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.22%) Ant
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.22%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.22%) Gradle
9 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
General
1 311 (67.46%) Finance
2 277 (60.09%) Front Office
3 250 (54.23%) Banking
4 191 (41.43%) Investment Banking
5 68 (14.75%) Social Skills
6 39 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.47%) Back Office
8 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.30%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.08%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Law
13 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Legal
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (39.48%) Developer
2 132 (28.63%) Software Engineer
3 104 (22.56%) Senior
4 74 (16.05%) Java Engineer
4 74 (16.05%) Java Software Engineer
5 73 (15.84%) Analyst
6 66 (14.32%) Java Developer
7 63 (13.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 61 (13.23%) Lead
9 54 (11.71%) Python Engineer
9 54 (11.71%) Python Software Engineer
10 52 (11.28%) Business Analyst
11 51 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 48 (10.41%) AWS Engineer
13 46 (9.98%) AWS Software Engineer
13 46 (9.98%) Python Developer
13 46 (9.98%) Senior Developer
14 44 (9.54%) Finance Manager
15 40 (8.68%) Architect
15 40 (8.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (30.15%) gRPC
1 139 (30.15%) Pandas
1 139 (30.15%) Protocol Buffers
2 133 (28.85%) NumPy
2 133 (28.85%) SciPy
3 61 (13.23%) React
4 31 (6.72%) .NET
5 29 (6.29%) Qt
6 23 (4.99%) FIX Protocol
7 21 (4.56%) .NET Core
8 19 (4.12%) Redux
9 18 (3.90%) CSS
9 18 (3.90%) HTML
10 13 (2.82%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.39%) Middleware
12 10 (2.17%) Vue
13 9 (1.95%) Rendezvous
14 7 (1.52%) Material-UI
14 7 (1.52%) Web Services
15 6 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 249 (54.01%) Derivative
2 241 (52.28%) Fixed Income
3 226 (49.02%) Equities
4 193 (41.87%) Hedge funds
5 43 (9.33%) Product Ownership
6 24 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
7 21 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.47%) Pricing Data
9 15 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.82%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 4 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
16 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
16 3 (0.65%) PMI
17 2 (0.43%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 54 (11.71%) Linux
2 24 (5.21%) Unix
3 10 (2.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (64.43%) Agile
2 208 (45.12%) Asset Management
3 203 (44.03%) Software Engineering
4 154 (33.41%) Investment Management
5 68 (14.75%) Line Management
6 61 (13.23%) Analytics
7 58 (12.58%) DevOps
8 50 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (10.63%) CI/CD
10 43 (9.33%) Greeks
11 40 (8.68%) Low Latency
12 39 (8.46%) Electronic Trading
13 38 (8.24%) Fintech
14 33 (7.16%) TDD
15 30 (6.51%) E-Commerce
16 29 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 29 (6.29%) Machine Learning
17 27 (5.86%) Test Automation
18 26 (5.64%) Full Stack Development
19 25 (5.42%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (54.88%) Python
2 241 (52.28%) Java
3 191 (41.43%) JavaScript
4 170 (36.88%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.35%) SQL
6 45 (9.76%) C++
7 41 (8.89%) C#
8 9 (1.95%) Perl
9 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.30%) Ruby
9 6 (1.30%) Scala
10 5 (1.08%) VBA
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.43%) VB
13 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (3.90%) Degree
2 12 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.65%) CCNA
7 3 (0.65%) CISA
7 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.65%) CISM
7 3 (0.65%) CISSP
7 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.29%) MISRA
3 25 (5.42%) QA
4 7 (1.52%) SEPA
5 6 (1.30%) MiFID
6 4 (0.87%) GAAP
7 2 (0.43%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.87%) Docker
3 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.87%) Ansible
2 4 (0.87%) Control-M
2 4 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (6.29%) Google
2 28 (6.07%) Bloomberg
3 26 (5.64%) Microsoft
4 18 (3.90%) SAP
5 15 (3.25%) ION Trading
6 12 (2.60%) BISAM
6 12 (2.60%) TIBCO
7 11 (2.39%) Oracle
7 11 (2.39%) Solace
8 9 (1.95%) Murex
9 8 (1.74%) Reuters
10 5 (1.08%) Refinitiv
11 4 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.87%) Calypso
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) Tradeweb
12 3 (0.65%) Cisco
12 3 (0.65%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.65%) Qualys
12 3 (0.65%) VMware