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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 254 261
Rank change year-on-year +133 +7 -62
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 613 481 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.59% 1.43% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.38% 3.09% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 573 433 898
10th Percentile £70,000 £59,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £150,000 £162,500
England median annual salary £112,500 £102,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -6.82% +10.00%

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 9,606 15,585 35,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.61% 46.21% 50.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,780 10,590 15,486
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,175 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,669 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +8 24 £95,000 -7.32% 19
East London +19 1 £75,000 -11.76% 32
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
1 244 (39.80%) Apache Airflow
2 239 (38.99%) Apache
3 7 (1.14%) nginx
4 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 433 (70.64%) AWS
2 236 (38.50%) dbt
3 218 (35.56%) Snowflake
4 214 (34.91%) GCP
5 120 (19.58%) Azure
6 8 (1.31%) SaaS
6 8 (1.31%) Serverless
7 6 (0.98%) WhatsApp
8 5 (0.82%) Azure Functions
8 5 (0.82%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.49%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.16%) OCI
11 1 (0.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.14%) OpenVPN
2 3 (0.49%) Firewall
2 3 (0.49%) LAN
2 3 (0.49%) WAN
2 3 (0.49%) Wireless
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (38.50%) Apache Arrow
1 236 (38.50%) Dremio
2 232 (37.85%) Amazon Athena
2 232 (37.85%) Apache Ignite
3 222 (36.22%) Data Lake
4 20 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.47%) DB2
7 7 (1.14%) MySQL
8 5 (0.82%) Power BI
8 5 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.65%) Big Data
9 4 (0.65%) Tableau
10 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.33%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.33%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (1.31%) Jenkins
1 8 (1.31%) JIRA
2 4 (0.65%) Git
3 3 (0.49%) GitLab
3 3 (0.49%) Maven
3 3 (0.49%) Protractor
4 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.16%) GCC
5 1 (0.16%) GDB
5 1 (0.16%) Gradle
5 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 532 (86.79%) Finance
2 440 (71.78%) Front Office
3 269 (43.88%) Banking
4 263 (42.90%) Investment Banking
5 52 (8.48%) Social Skills
6 51 (8.32%) Back Office
7 24 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (0.98%) Retail
10 5 (0.82%) Games
11 3 (0.49%) Advertising
11 3 (0.49%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.33%) International Banking
12 2 (0.33%) Legal
12 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.16%) Law
13 1 (0.16%) Marketing
13 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 288 (46.98%) Developer
2 234 (38.17%) Software Engineer
3 181 (29.53%) Senior
4 150 (24.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 131 (21.37%) Lead
6 128 (20.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 101 (16.48%) Senior Developer
8 99 (16.15%) .NET Developer
9 93 (15.17%) Python Engineer
9 93 (15.17%) Python Software Engineer
10 88 (14.36%) Analyst
11 87 (14.19%) Java Developer
12 84 (13.70%) .NET Software Engineer
13 82 (13.38%) .NET Software Developer
14 81 (13.21%) Java Engineer
14 81 (13.21%) Java Software Engineer
15 79 (12.89%) AWS Engineer
15 79 (12.89%) Lead Developer
16 76 (12.40%) AWS Software Engineer
17 74 (12.07%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (39.64%) Pandas
2 242 (39.48%) gRPC
2 242 (39.48%) Protocol Buffers
3 231 (37.68%) NumPy
3 231 (37.68%) SciPy
4 128 (20.88%) AngularJS
5 119 (19.41%) React
6 114 (18.60%) .NET
7 94 (15.33%) Vue
8 89 (14.52%) Redux
9 70 (11.42%) .NET Core
10 41 (6.69%) ASP.NET
11 39 (6.36%) ASP.NET Core
12 31 (5.06%) Spring Boot
13 23 (3.75%) Spring
14 21 (3.43%) CSS
14 21 (3.43%) HTML
15 20 (3.26%) FIX Protocol
16 17 (2.77%) Hibernate
17 12 (1.96%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 436 (71.13%) Equities
2 423 (69.00%) Fixed Income
3 399 (65.09%) Derivative
4 391 (63.78%) Hedge funds
5 57 (9.30%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.89%) Pricing Data
7 20 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.47%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.65%) 3D Graphics
13 4 (0.65%) Ray Tracing
13 4 (0.65%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.49%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.49%) Public Cloud
15 2 (0.33%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.67%) Linux
2 16 (2.61%) Unix
3 11 (1.79%) Windows
4 9 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.14%) CentOS
6 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (66.88%) Asset Management
2 389 (63.46%) Agile
3 369 (60.20%) Software Engineering
4 342 (55.79%) Investment Management
5 102 (16.64%) Fintech
6 97 (15.82%) Line Management
7 92 (15.01%) Greeks
8 90 (14.68%) Analytics
9 78 (12.72%) Full Stack Development
10 60 (9.79%) DevOps
10 60 (9.79%) Machine Learning
11 59 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 56 (9.14%) Low Latency
13 53 (8.65%) TDD
14 46 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (6.53%) Product Management
16 39 (6.36%) Portfolio Management
17 36 (5.87%) Computer Science
18 35 (5.71%) Electronic Trading
18 35 (5.71%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 406 (66.23%) Python
2 365 (59.54%) JavaScript
3 343 (55.95%) TypeScript
4 330 (53.83%) Java
5 159 (25.94%) SQL
6 149 (24.31%) C#
7 36 (5.87%) C++
8 12 (1.96%) Ruby
8 12 (1.96%) Scala
9 8 (1.31%) Rust
9 8 (1.31%) VBA
10 7 (1.14%) C
10 7 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.82%) Bash
12 4 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.49%) Erlang
14 2 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (6.20%) Degree
2 14 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.12%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.82%) PhD
6 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.16%) ACCA
8 1 (0.16%) CIMA
8 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.01%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.18%) QA
3 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.33%) SEPA
5 1 (0.16%) COREP
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.16%) P3O
5 1 (0.16%) PMO
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 1
System Software
1 26 (4.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.65%) Control-M
3 2 (0.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (4.40%) Bloomberg
2 14 (2.28%) BISAM
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (0.98%) FFastFill
4 6 (0.98%) Oracle
4 6 (0.98%) Refinitiv
5 5 (0.82%) Murex
5 5 (0.82%) TIBCO
6 4 (0.65%) SAP
7 3 (0.49%) Citrix
7 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.49%) VMware
8 2 (0.33%) Charles River
8 2 (0.33%) Databricks
8 2 (0.33%) IBM
8 2 (0.33%) Solace
9 1 (0.16%) Progress
9 1 (0.16%) Reuters
9 1 (0.16%) Sun
9 1 (0.16%) Sybase