Foreign Exchange (FX) Jobs

Foreign Exchange (FX)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 510 486
Rank change year-on-year +152 -24 -57
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 793 511 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.54% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 1.25% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 664 436 915
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,625 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £113,750 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £155,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -3.70%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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)
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Foreign Exchange (FX) in the UK

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 14 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +139 744 £115,000 +9.52% 196
London +160 661 £115,000 +9.52% 160
Work from Home +239 504 £115,000 +15.00% 66
UK excluding London +28 116 £55,000 -4.35% 32
South West +10 39 £42,015 -6.63% 12
Scotland -37 35 - - 3
South East -8 23 £55,000 -4.35% 6
East of England -1 10 - - 2
West Midlands -11 4 £32,000 - 2
Midlands -11 4 £32,000 - 2
North of England +26 2 - - 5
North West -10 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £73,750 - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -

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
1 291 (36.70%) Apache
2 288 (36.32%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.65%) GemFire
4 17 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.76%) nginx
7 3 (0.38%) OpenZeppelin
7 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Confluence
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Ripple
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 483 (60.91%) AWS
2 288 (36.32%) dbt
3 262 (33.04%) Snowflake
4 220 (27.74%) GCP
5 129 (16.27%) Azure
6 32 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 22 (2.77%) Power Automate
8 10 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.13%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.13%) Serverless
10 7 (0.88%) SaaS
11 6 (0.76%) WhatsApp
12 5 (0.63%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.38%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.13%) Wireless
2 6 (0.76%) 3G
2 6 (0.76%) 4G
2 6 (0.76%) LTE
2 6 (0.76%) OpenVPN
2 6 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.76%) VSAT
3 4 (0.50%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) IPFS
4 3 (0.38%) LAN
4 3 (0.38%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (36.32%) Apache Arrow
1 288 (36.32%) Dremio
2 276 (34.80%) Amazon Athena
2 276 (34.80%) Apache Ignite
3 274 (34.55%) Data Lake
4 31 (3.91%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.03%) Power BI
6 21 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 21 (2.65%) CockroachDB
6 21 (2.65%) Hazelcast
7 20 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.14%) Tableau
9 12 (1.51%) Big Data
10 9 (1.13%) DB2
11 7 (0.88%) MySQL
12 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
14 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (2.65%) Jaeger
2 13 (1.64%) JIRA
3 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.50%) Git
5 3 (0.38%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.38%) GitLab
5 3 (0.38%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.38%) Maven
5 3 (0.38%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.38%) Protractor
5 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GCC
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) Gradle
7 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 673 (84.87%) Finance
2 504 (63.56%) Front Office
3 389 (49.05%) Banking
4 377 (47.54%) Investment Banking
5 114 (14.38%) Social Skills
6 77 (9.71%) Law
7 72 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.56%) Back Office
9 42 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.53%) Financial Institution
11 24 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.14%) Legal
13 16 (2.02%) Marketing
14 14 (1.77%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.76%) Military
15 6 (0.76%) Retail
16 5 (0.63%) Games
17 4 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.50%) General Ledger
18 3 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 310 (39.09%) Developer
2 284 (35.81%) Software Engineer
3 209 (26.36%) Senior
4 169 (21.31%) Lead
5 152 (19.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 150 (18.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 130 (16.39%) Analyst
8 122 (15.38%) Java Engineer
8 122 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
9 113 (14.25%) Python Engineer
9 113 (14.25%) Python Software Engineer
10 103 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
10 103 (12.99%) Senior Developer
11 100 (12.61%) AWS Software Engineer
12 95 (11.98%) .NET Developer
13 93 (11.73%) Java Developer
14 83 (10.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 82 (10.34%) .NET Software Engineer
16 81 (10.21%) Business Analyst
16 81 (10.21%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (36.32%) Pandas
2 286 (36.07%) gRPC
2 286 (36.07%) Protocol Buffers
3 275 (34.68%) NumPy
3 275 (34.68%) SciPy
4 125 (15.76%) AngularJS
5 121 (15.26%) .NET
6 117 (14.75%) React
7 92 (11.60%) Vue
8 86 (10.84%) Redux
9 70 (8.83%) .NET Core
10 52 (6.56%) Spring Boot
11 43 (5.42%) Spring
12 40 (5.04%) ASP.NET
13 37 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
14 30 (3.78%) FIX Protocol
15 26 (3.28%) REST
16 25 (3.15%) CSS
17 24 (3.03%) Kafka
18 23 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 490 (61.79%) Equities
2 478 (60.28%) Fixed Income
3 463 (58.39%) Derivative
4 448 (56.49%) Hedge funds
5 72 (9.08%) Product Ownership
6 42 (5.30%) Pricing Data
7 25 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.65%) Replication
9 19 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.27%) OTC Derivatives
11 14 (1.77%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.26%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.13%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 7 (0.88%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.80%) Linux
2 16 (2.02%) Unix
3 11 (1.39%) Windows
4 6 (0.76%) CentOS
5 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (61.16%) Agile
2 457 (57.63%) Asset Management
3 437 (55.11%) Software Engineering
4 381 (48.05%) Investment Management
5 116 (14.63%) Greeks
6 111 (14.00%) Fintech
7 107 (13.49%) Line Management
8 100 (12.61%) Analytics
9 76 (9.58%) Full Stack Development
10 69 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 65 (8.20%) DevOps
12 64 (8.07%) Machine Learning
13 61 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 61 (7.69%) Low Latency
14 58 (7.31%) TDD
15 44 (5.55%) Computer Science
16 43 (5.42%) Electronic Trading
17 42 (5.30%) Product Management
18 39 (4.92%) Multithreading
19 37 (4.67%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 463 (58.39%) Python
2 420 (52.96%) JavaScript
3 410 (51.70%) Java
4 388 (48.93%) TypeScript
5 190 (23.96%) SQL
6 159 (20.05%) C#
7 34 (4.29%) C++
8 21 (2.65%) Groovy
9 14 (1.77%) Ruby
10 12 (1.51%) Scala
11 11 (1.39%) Rust
12 8 (1.01%) C
13 7 (0.88%) VBA
14 6 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.63%) Bash
15 5 (0.63%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.50%) PHP
17 3 (0.38%) Erlang
17 3 (0.38%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 58 (7.31%) Degree
2 17 (2.14%) Master's Degree
3 16 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 7 (0.88%) PhD
5 6 (0.76%) ACCA
5 6 (0.76%) CIMA
5 6 (0.76%) GCSC
6 5 (0.63%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.63%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) MBA
9 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.30%) QA
3 10 (1.26%) SLA
4 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.25%) PMO
5 2 (0.25%) SEPA
6 1 (0.13%) GDPR
6 1 (0.13%) P3O
6 1 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 24 (3.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.65%) Grafana
1 21 (2.65%) HAProxy
1 21 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (2.65%) Kibana
1 21 (2.65%) Prometheus
1 21 (2.65%) Zipkin
2 17 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.50%) Control-M
4 2 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (4.54%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.40%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.65%) Dynatrace
3 21 (2.65%) Splunk
4 20 (2.52%) SAP
5 17 (2.14%) Alteryx
6 14 (1.77%) BISAM
7 13 (1.64%) Oracle
8 8 (1.01%) Murex
9 6 (0.76%) Cisco
9 6 (0.76%) FFastFill
9 6 (0.76%) HP
9 6 (0.76%) Refinitiv
10 5 (0.63%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.38%) Citrix
12 3 (0.38%) Foundry
12 3 (0.38%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.38%) VMware
13 2 (0.25%) Sophis