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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 508 453
Rank change year-on-year +135 -55 -34
Permanent jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 718 562 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.56% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 1.30% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 592 481 966
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £67,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £84,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £133,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £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 10 May 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 10 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
England +120 668 £112,500 +9.76% 208
London +130 584 £115,000 +9.52% 174
Work from Home +209 415 £115,000 +16.46% 72
UK excluding London +45 120 £55,000 -4.35% 38
South West +18 41 £45,000 - 15
Scotland -28 37 £45,000 -35.71% 4
South East -2 23 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East of England +17 10 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands +2 3 £32,000 - 3
Midlands -13 3 £32,000 - 3
North of England +41 2 - - 2
North West -3 2 - - 2
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
1 210 (29.25%) Apache Airflow
2 203 (28.27%) Apache
3 21 (2.92%) GemFire
4 17 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.97%) nginx
7 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.42%) OpenZeppelin
9 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 396 (55.15%) AWS
2 199 (27.72%) GCP
3 198 (27.58%) dbt
4 184 (25.63%) Snowflake
5 134 (18.66%) Azure
6 23 (3.20%) Power Automate
7 21 (2.92%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.39%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.25%) Serverless
11 8 (1.11%) SaaS
12 6 (0.84%) WhatsApp
13 5 (0.70%) Azure Functions
14 4 (0.56%) Azure Key Vault
15 3 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.42%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.25%) Wireless
2 7 (0.97%) OpenVPN
3 6 (0.84%) 3G
3 6 (0.84%) 4G
3 6 (0.84%) LTE
3 6 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.84%) VSAT
4 4 (0.56%) HTTP
5 3 (0.42%) Firewall
5 3 (0.42%) IPFS
5 3 (0.42%) LAN
5 3 (0.42%) WAN
6 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (27.58%) Amazon Athena
1 198 (27.58%) Apache Arrow
1 198 (27.58%) Apache Ignite
1 198 (27.58%) Dremio
2 184 (25.63%) Data Lake
3 34 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 21 (2.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (2.92%) CockroachDB
4 21 (2.92%) Hazelcast
5 19 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.81%) Power BI
7 9 (1.25%) DB2
8 8 (1.11%) MySQL
9 5 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.70%) Tableau
10 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.42%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.42%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (2.92%) Jaeger
2 14 (1.95%) JIRA
3 9 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) Git
4 4 (0.56%) GitLab
5 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.42%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.42%) Maven
5 3 (0.42%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.42%) Protractor
5 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) GCC
7 1 (0.14%) GDB
7 1 (0.14%) Gradle
7 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 586 (81.62%) Finance
2 420 (58.50%) Front Office
3 299 (41.64%) Banking
4 288 (40.11%) Investment Banking
5 112 (15.60%) Social Skills
6 76 (10.58%) Law
7 74 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (7.10%) Back Office
9 41 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
10 30 (4.18%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.23%) Legal
12 16 (2.23%) Marketing
13 14 (1.95%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.84%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.84%) Military
14 6 (0.84%) Retail
15 5 (0.70%) Games
16 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 308 (42.90%) Developer
2 239 (33.29%) Software Engineer
3 178 (24.79%) Senior
4 143 (19.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 143 (19.92%) Lead
5 129 (17.97%) Analyst
6 117 (16.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 103 (14.35%) Senior Developer
8 101 (14.07%) .NET Developer
9 90 (12.53%) Java Engineer
10 89 (12.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 85 (11.84%) .NET Software Engineer
11 85 (11.84%) Java Developer
12 83 (11.56%) .NET Software Developer
13 80 (11.14%) Python Engineer
13 80 (11.14%) Python Software Engineer
14 78 (10.86%) Business Analyst
15 74 (10.31%) Lead Software Engineer
16 72 (10.03%) Finance Manager
17 71 (9.89%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (29.25%) Pandas
2 208 (28.97%) gRPC
2 208 (28.97%) Protocol Buffers
3 198 (27.58%) NumPy
4 197 (27.44%) SciPy
5 132 (18.38%) AngularJS
6 127 (17.69%) .NET
7 123 (17.13%) React
8 95 (13.23%) Vue
9 90 (12.53%) Redux
10 72 (10.03%) .NET Core
11 49 (6.82%) Spring Boot
12 46 (6.41%) Spring
13 45 (6.27%) ASP.NET
14 40 (5.57%) ASP.NET Core
15 29 (4.04%) FIX Protocol
16 28 (3.90%) CSS
16 28 (3.90%) REST
17 26 (3.62%) HTML
17 26 (3.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 409 (56.96%) Equities
2 398 (55.43%) Fixed Income
3 381 (53.06%) Derivative
4 367 (51.11%) Hedge funds
5 62 (8.64%) Product Ownership
6 25 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.34%) Pricing Data
8 21 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.92%) Replication
9 18 (2.51%) OTC Derivatives
10 14 (1.95%) Credit Derivative
10 14 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.25%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 7 (0.97%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.10%) Linux
2 15 (2.09%) Unix
3 14 (1.95%) Windows
4 9 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.97%) CentOS
6 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (56.13%) Agile
2 373 (51.95%) Asset Management
3 364 (50.70%) Software Engineering
4 321 (44.71%) Investment Management
5 121 (16.85%) Fintech
6 90 (12.53%) Analytics
7 83 (11.56%) Line Management
8 81 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
9 80 (11.14%) Greeks
10 73 (10.17%) DevOps
11 65 (9.05%) Machine Learning
12 64 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
13 63 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (8.50%) TDD
15 59 (8.22%) Low Latency
16 47 (6.55%) Computer Science
17 44 (6.13%) Electronic Trading
18 40 (5.57%) Product Management
19 39 (5.43%) Multithreading
20 38 (5.29%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 376 (52.37%) Python
2 351 (48.89%) JavaScript
3 338 (47.08%) Java
4 316 (44.01%) TypeScript
5 179 (24.93%) SQL
6 165 (22.98%) C#
7 43 (5.99%) C++
8 21 (2.92%) Groovy
9 14 (1.95%) Ruby
10 12 (1.67%) Scala
11 10 (1.39%) Rust
12 7 (0.97%) C
12 7 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.97%) VBA
13 6 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.70%) Bash
15 4 (0.56%) PHP
16 3 (0.42%) Erlang
16 3 (0.42%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 59 (8.22%) Degree
2 17 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.81%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.84%) ACCA
5 6 (0.84%) CIMA
5 6 (0.84%) GCSC
6 5 (0.70%) PhD
6 5 (0.70%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.70%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) IIBA
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.14%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.55%) QA
3 10 (1.39%) SLA
4 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) PMO
5 2 (0.28%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) COREP
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.14%) P3O
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 25 (3.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (3.06%) Grafana
1 22 (3.06%) Kibana
1 22 (3.06%) Prometheus
2 21 (2.92%) HAProxy
2 21 (2.92%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (2.92%) Zipkin
3 17 (2.37%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.56%) Control-M
5 3 (0.42%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.62%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.92%) Dynatrace
3 21 (2.92%) SAP
3 21 (2.92%) Splunk
4 17 (2.37%) Alteryx
5 14 (1.95%) BISAM
6 13 (1.81%) Oracle
7 7 (0.97%) Murex
8 6 (0.84%) Cisco
8 6 (0.84%) FFastFill
8 6 (0.84%) HP
8 6 (0.84%) Refinitiv
8 6 (0.84%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.42%) Citrix
10 3 (0.42%) Foundry
10 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.42%) Solace
10 3 (0.42%) VMware