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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 198 271
Rank change year-on-year -138 +73 +7
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 213 621 723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 1.31% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.45% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 548 650
10th Percentile £609 £538 £575
25th Percentile £727 £611 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £881 £850 £838
90th Percentile £1,100 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%

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 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 31 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 31 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 -86 207 £825 +10.00% 58
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £650 -
South East - 1 - - 1
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 13 (6.10%) Confluence
2 7 (3.29%) SAS
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (6.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (5.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (7.04%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.88%) RMDS
3 2 (0.94%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.94%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.47%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.92%) npm
2 12 (5.63%) Azure
3 6 (2.82%) Azure App Service
3 6 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (1.88%) AWS
4 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.04%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.19%) KDB
2 18 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.41%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (19.25%) JIRA
2 27 (12.68%) TeamCity
3 26 (12.21%) Git
4 19 (8.92%) webpack
5 14 (6.57%) Moq
6 12 (5.63%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.69%) git-flow
7 10 (4.69%) NUnit
7 10 (4.69%) SpecFlow
8 9 (4.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.88%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.94%) GitLab
11 2 (0.94%) Gradle
11 2 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.94%) JUnit
11 2 (0.94%) Mockito
General
1 106 (49.77%) Front Office
2 79 (37.09%) Finance
3 65 (30.52%) Banking
4 63 (29.58%) Social Skills
5 52 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (18.78%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.23%) Marketing
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (68.08%) Developer
2 64 (30.05%) Java Developer
3 55 (25.82%) Senior
4 45 (21.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 43 (20.19%) Senior Developer
6 37 (17.37%) C# Developer
7 26 (12.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 24 (11.27%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (10.80%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (9.86%) React Developer
11 18 (8.45%) Angular Developer
11 18 (8.45%) Business Analyst
12 17 (7.98%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 15 (7.04%) Analyst
13 15 (7.04%) UI Developer
14 14 (6.57%) KDB Developer
14 14 (6.57%) Real Time Developer
15 13 (6.10%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
15 13 (6.10%) Java Quantitative Developer
15 13 (6.10%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.64%) React
2 54 (25.35%) FIX Protocol
3 29 (13.62%) AngularJS
4 27 (12.68%) WebSockets
5 26 (12.21%) .NET
6 21 (9.86%) CSS
6 21 (9.86%) RxJS
7 20 (9.39%) Redux
7 20 (9.39%) REST
8 18 (8.45%) Middleware
9 15 (7.04%) XML
10 13 (6.10%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.10%) WPF
11 12 (5.63%) Spring
12 11 (5.16%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.16%) OpenFin
12 11 (5.16%) RESTful
13 10 (4.69%) Jest
13 10 (4.69%) Material-UI
13 10 (4.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 90 (42.25%) Fixed Income
2 41 (19.25%) Derivative
3 38 (17.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (8.45%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (5.16%) Equities
7 10 (4.69%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (4.23%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.82%) Wiki
11 5 (2.35%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.94%) Clustering
13 2 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.94%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.94%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.15%) Unix
2 26 (12.21%) Linux
3 4 (1.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.15%) Agile
2 52 (24.41%) Low Latency
3 38 (17.84%) Software Engineering
4 37 (17.37%) Design Patterns
5 36 (16.90%) Multithreading
6 34 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (15.49%) TDD
8 32 (15.02%) Algorithmic Trading
8 32 (15.02%) Test Automation
9 31 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (12.21%) OO
11 25 (11.74%) CI/CD
12 24 (11.27%) SDLC
13 23 (10.80%) Risk Management
14 22 (10.33%) Analytics
15 21 (9.86%) Microservices
15 21 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (9.39%) Computer Science
17 19 (8.92%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.31%) Java
2 62 (29.11%) C#
3 52 (24.41%) TypeScript
4 45 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 43 (20.19%) SQL
6 22 (10.33%) Python
7 7 (3.29%) C++
8 5 (2.35%) Perl
9 4 (1.88%) Bicep
10 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.41%) Scala
11 2 (0.94%) Bash
11 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (16.43%) Degree
2 11 (5.16%) CCNA
2 11 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.69%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.69%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (3.29%) EMIR
2 7 (3.29%) MiFID
3 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.35%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.94%) Ansible
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (19.25%) ION Trading
2 18 (8.45%) TIBCO
3 16 (7.51%) Bloomberg
3 16 (7.51%) Tradeweb
4 14 (6.57%) MarketAxess
5 12 (5.63%) Solace
6 11 (5.16%) Cisco
7 6 (2.82%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.88%) Murex
9 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.94%) Arista
10 2 (0.94%) BT
10 2 (0.94%) HP
10 2 (0.94%) IBM
10 2 (0.94%) Radianz
10 2 (0.94%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.94%) Reuters
10 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.94%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) Sybase