The first table below looks at the demand for Electronic Trading skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Electronic Trading over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Trading
Rank 183 170 95
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -75
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 32 52 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.464% 0.674% 1.765%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.627% 0.934% 2.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 146
Average daily rate £550 £563 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £375 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £625 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 -
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5107 5566 7140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.07% 72.16% 71.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3861 4093 5266
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 120
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.60 £14.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Electronic Trading
London

Electronic Trading
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Electronic Trading Jobs Demand Trend

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region.

City of London Electronic Trading Daily Rate Trend

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Electronic Trading Daily Rate Histogram

Electronic Trading
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region.

City of London Electronic Trading Hourly Rate Trend

Electronic Trading
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Electronic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Electronic Trading.

1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 26 (40.00%) Front Office
3 25 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (35.38%) Java
5 20 (30.77%) SQL
6 19 (29.23%) UNIX
7 18 (27.69%) C#
8 17 (26.15%) Fixed Income
8 17 (26.15%) Derivative
8 17 (26.15%) Multithreading
9 15 (23.08%) Banking
10 14 (21.54%) .NET
11 12 (18.46%) Perl
11 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
12 11 (16.92%) C++
12 11 (16.92%) WinForms
13 10 (15.38%) Equities
13 10 (15.38%) TIBCO
13 10 (15.38%) Rendezvous
13 10 (15.38%) Bloomberg
13 10 (15.38%) Linux
14 9 (13.85%) OO
14 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
14 9 (13.85%) Investment Banking
14 9 (13.85%) Degree
14 9 (13.85%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (12.31%) WPF
15 8 (12.31%) 29West
15 8 (12.31%) Sybase
16 7 (10.77%) XML

Electronic Trading
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Electronic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Electronic Trading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (21.54%) .NET
2 11 (16.92%) WinForms
3 10 (15.38%) Rendezvous
4 9 (13.85%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (12.31%) WPF
6 7 (10.77%) XML
6 7 (10.77%) JMS
7 5 (7.692%) Web Services
8 3 (4.615%) WCF
8 3 (4.615%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.615%) Spring
9 2 (3.077%) QuickFIX
10 1 (1.538%) Spring Integration
10 1 (1.538%) jQuery
10 1 (1.538%) JPA
10 1 (1.538%) Guice
10 1 (1.538%) HTML5
10 1 (1.538%) Ajax
10 1 (1.538%) MDX
10 1 (1.538%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.77%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.538%) Confluence
2 1 (1.538%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.538%) MTS
Applications
1 4 (6.154%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.538%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.538%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.538%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (9.231%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.538%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
2 1 (1.538%) Bloomberg TOMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.615%) LDAP
1 3 (4.615%) DNS
1 3 (4.615%) SAN
2 2 (3.077%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.077%) Firewall
3 1 (1.538%) Intranet
3 1 (1.538%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.077%) KDB
2 2 (3.077%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.077%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.538%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.538%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.538%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Eclipse
1 2 (3.077%) JIRA
1 2 (3.077%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.538%) EasyMock
2 1 (1.538%) Mockito
2 1 (1.538%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.538%) jMock
2 1 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.538%) Subversion
2 1 (1.538%) Maven
2 1 (1.538%) JUnit
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 26 (40.00%) Front Office
3 15 (23.08%) Banking
4 9 (13.85%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.154%) Retail
6 1 (1.538%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Developer
2 20 (30.77%) Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Java Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Business Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) C# Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Technical Leader
6 6 (9.231%) Real Time Software Engineer
6 6 (9.231%) Real Time Engineer
6 6 (9.231%) .NET Software Engineer
6 6 (9.231%) Technical Developer
6 6 (9.231%) C# Software Engineer
6 6 (9.231%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.231%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.692%) Support Analyst
7 5 (7.692%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (6.154%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.615%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.615%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.615%) UNIX Administrator
9 3 (4.615%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (26.15%) Fixed Income
2 17 (26.15%) Derivative
3 10 (15.38%) Equities
4 6 (9.231%) Credit Derivative
5 5 (7.692%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.538%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.538%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.538%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.538%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.538%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) UNIX
2 10 (15.38%) Linux
3 3 (4.615%) SUSE
3 3 (4.615%) Windows
3 3 (4.615%) Solaris
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Multithreading
2 9 (13.85%) OO
3 7 (10.77%) Workflow
4 6 (9.231%) Business Analysis
5 5 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (7.692%) Project Management
6 4 (6.154%) E-Commerce
6 4 (6.154%) TDD
7 3 (4.615%) Scrum
8 2 (3.077%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.077%) ETL
8 2 (3.077%) Process Management
8 2 (3.077%) Change Management
8 2 (3.077%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.077%) Release Management
8 2 (3.077%) Project Planning
8 2 (3.077%) Unit Testing
8 2 (3.077%) Domain-Driven Design
9 1 (1.538%) BDD
9 1 (1.538%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) Java
2 20 (30.77%) SQL
3 18 (27.69%) C#
4 12 (18.46%) Perl
5 11 (16.92%) C++
6 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.154%) Python
8 3 (4.615%) C
8 3 (4.615%) VB
9 1 (1.538%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.538%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.615%) QA
2 1 (1.538%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.615%) NFS
1 3 (4.615%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) TIBCO
1 10 (15.38%) Bloomberg
2 8 (12.31%) Sybase
2 8 (12.31%) 29West
3 7 (10.77%) DevExpress
3 7 (10.77%) Syncfusion
4 6 (9.231%) ION Trading
5 5 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.692%) Reuters
6 4 (6.154%) Fidessa
6 4 (6.154%) Charles River
6 4 (6.154%) Oracle
7 3 (4.615%) Tradeweb
7 3 (4.615%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.077%) Business Objects
9 1 (1.538%) Sun
9 1 (1.538%) Murex
9 1 (1.538%) FFastFill
9 1 (1.538%) eSpeed
9 1 (1.538%) CQG
City of London
The RoleThe FX Electronic Trading team is seeking for a technically strong, highlydriven individual with C++ programming skills. The successful candidate will beresponsible for technical integration between Bloomberg'...
Bloomberg
Rate: competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
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Bloomberg LP
Rate: competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Main Function Require a strong Project Manager with very good Business Analysis skills to provide PM/BA service to both local and global projects... Main Duties This is...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013