Electronic Trading Contracts in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 184 277
Rank change year-on-year -145 +93 +11
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 222 693 710
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 1.41% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.57% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 609 631
10th Percentile £606 £550 £575
25th Percentile £725 £619 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £838
90th Percentile £1,065 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
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 Electronic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -103 218 £820 +9.33% 67
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic Trading
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 14 (6.31%) Confluence
2 7 (3.15%) SAS
3 6 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.31%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.80%) RMDS
3 2 (0.90%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.90%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.45%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.36%) npm
2 9 (4.05%) Azure
3 4 (1.80%) AWS
3 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.35%) Azure App Service
4 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (1.35%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.21%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (19.37%) KDB
2 22 (9.91%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.15%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (22.52%) JIRA
2 33 (14.86%) TeamCity
3 25 (11.26%) Git
4 23 (10.36%) webpack
5 15 (6.76%) Moq
6 13 (5.86%) Cucumber
7 11 (4.95%) NUnit
8 9 (4.05%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.60%) git-flow
10 7 (3.15%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.80%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.90%) GitLab
13 2 (0.90%) Gradle
13 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
13 2 (0.90%) JUnit
13 2 (0.90%) Mockito
General
1 120 (54.05%) Front Office
2 82 (36.94%) Finance
3 69 (31.08%) Social Skills
4 66 (29.73%) Banking
5 60 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (20.27%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Marketing
8 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.45%) French Language
8 1 (0.45%) Legal
8 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (66.22%) Developer
2 60 (27.03%) Java Developer
3 49 (22.07%) Senior
4 44 (19.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 38 (17.12%) C# Developer
5 38 (17.12%) Senior Developer
6 25 (11.26%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 23 (10.36%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (9.91%) Angular Developer
8 22 (9.91%) React Developer
9 21 (9.46%) Business Analyst
9 21 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
10 20 (9.01%) UI Developer
11 17 (7.66%) Analyst
11 17 (7.66%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 17 (7.66%) Real Time Developer
12 16 (7.21%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
12 16 (7.21%) KDB Developer
13 15 (6.76%) Applications Developer
13 15 (6.76%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.18%) React
2 57 (25.68%) FIX Protocol
3 29 (13.06%) AngularJS
3 29 (13.06%) WebSockets
4 25 (11.26%) .NET
4 25 (11.26%) RxJS
5 24 (10.81%) REST
6 23 (10.36%) CSS
7 22 (9.91%) Redux
8 17 (7.66%) Middleware
8 17 (7.66%) WPF
9 16 (7.21%) XML
10 14 (6.31%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.31%) Reactive Extensions
11 12 (5.41%) ASP.NET
12 11 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (4.95%) RESTful
12 11 (4.95%) SignalR
13 10 (4.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 90 (40.54%) Fixed Income
2 40 (18.02%) Derivative
3 37 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (6.76%) Equities
5 15 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.50%) Algorithms
8 9 (4.05%) Data Structures
8 9 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.15%) Wiki
10 4 (1.80%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 4 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.90%) Clustering
11 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.41%) Unix
2 28 (12.61%) Linux
3 5 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (38.29%) Agile
2 55 (24.77%) Low Latency
3 44 (19.82%) Design Patterns
4 40 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (17.12%) Software Engineering
6 37 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (16.22%) Multithreading
8 35 (15.77%) Algorithmic Trading
8 35 (15.77%) Test Automation
9 33 (14.86%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (14.41%) TDD
11 26 (11.71%) CI/CD
11 26 (11.71%) OO
12 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.81%) Risk Management
14 23 (10.36%) Analytics
14 23 (10.36%) Economics
14 23 (10.36%) SDLC
15 22 (9.91%) Computer Science
16 20 (9.01%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 89 (40.09%) Java
2 68 (30.63%) C#
3 55 (24.77%) TypeScript
4 54 (24.32%) SQL
5 48 (21.62%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.71%) Python
7 7 (3.15%) C++
8 5 (2.25%) Perl
9 4 (1.80%) Scala
10 3 (1.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Bash
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (17.12%) Degree
2 11 (4.95%) CCNA
2 11 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.95%) QA
2 8 (3.60%) Dodd-Frank
2 8 (3.60%) EMIR
2 8 (3.60%) MiFID
3 6 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (5.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.90%) Ansible
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (17.57%) ION Trading
2 18 (8.11%) TIBCO
3 17 (7.66%) Bloomberg
4 16 (7.21%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.76%) MarketAxess
6 12 (5.41%) Solace
7 11 (4.95%) Cisco
8 6 (2.70%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.80%) Murex
10 3 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.90%) Arista
11 2 (0.90%) BT
11 2 (0.90%) Google
11 2 (0.90%) HP
11 2 (0.90%) IBM
11 2 (0.90%) Radianz
11 2 (0.90%) Reuters
11 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.90%) Splunk
11 2 (0.90%) Sybase