Electronic Trading Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Electronic Trading skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Electronic Trading over the 3 months to 17 May 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.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Trading
Rank 331 348 184
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -164
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 218 239 604
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.470% 0.410% 0.985%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.663% 0.605% 1.455%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 209 481
Average daily rate £525 £588 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.63% +0.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £520
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £363 -
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

Electronic Trading
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Electronic Trading Hourly Rate Trend

Electronic Trading
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +8 200 £525 -10.63%
London +1 199 £525 -10.63%
City of London -9 33 £563 +7.14%
Scotland - 18 £375 -
Glasgow - 13 £475 -
Docklands, London +5 2 £563 +32.35%
Canary Wharf -14 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Birmingham - 1 £400 -

Electronic Trading
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 152 (44.06%) Front Office
2 149 (43.19%) Fixed Income
3 131 (37.97%) Banking
4 108 (31.30%) Java
5 104 (30.14%) SQL
6 96 (27.83%) C#
6 96 (27.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 92 (26.67%) UNIX
8 84 (24.35%) Multithreading
9 82 (23.77%) Finance
10 73 (21.16%) Windows
11 69 (20.00%) Investment Banking
12 66 (19.13%) C++
13 64 (18.55%) Reuters
14 58 (16.81%) Bloomberg
15 54 (15.65%) .NET
16 53 (15.36%) Derivative
17 51 (14.78%) ION Trading
18 46 (13.33%) TIBCO
18 46 (13.33%) Rendezvous
19 45 (13.04%) OO
20 43 (12.46%) TDD
21 41 (11.88%) Perl
21 41 (11.88%) ION MarketView
22 38 (11.01%) Algorithmic Trading
22 38 (11.01%) SQL Server
23 37 (10.72%) Linux
23 37 (10.72%) WinForms
24 36 (10.43%) Equities
25 35 (10.14%) WPF

Electronic Trading
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 54 (15.65%) .NET
2 37 (10.72%) WinForms
3 35 (10.14%) WPF
4 15 (4.348%) RESTful
5 14 (4.058%) Spring
5 14 (4.058%) Middleware
5 14 (4.058%) WCF
6 13 (3.768%) SOAP
6 13 (3.768%) J2SE
6 13 (3.768%) FIX Protocol
7 12 (3.478%) XML
8 10 (2.899%) MDX
8 10 (2.899%) Silverlight
9 8 (2.319%) Apache CXF
9 8 (2.319%) HTML5
10 7 (2.029%) Apache Flex
10 7 (2.029%) LINQ
10 7 (2.029%) JMS
11 6 (1.739%) jQuery
12 5 (1.449%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 46 (13.33%) Rendezvous
2 10 (2.899%) MQSeries
3 7 (2.029%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (0.870%) Progress Apama
4 3 (0.870%) Confluence
5 2 (0.580%) MTS
6 1 (0.290%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.290%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.290%) IIS
6 1 (0.290%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (2.609%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.159%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (0.870%) MS Project
3 3 (0.870%) MS Office
4 2 (0.580%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 41 (11.88%) ION MarketView
2 10 (2.899%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.159%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.290%) 3000 Xtra
4 1 (0.290%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.797%) TCP/IP
1 20 (5.797%) Firewall
2 9 (2.609%) SAN
3 3 (0.870%) DNS
3 3 (0.870%) LDAP
3 3 (0.870%) HTTP
4 1 (0.290%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.478%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.188%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (3.188%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (2.899%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 10 (2.899%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.899%) Data Mart
4 10 (2.899%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (2.899%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (0.580%) KDB
6 1 (0.290%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.290%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.290%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.768%) JIRA
2 8 (2.319%) Subversion
2 8 (2.319%) Eclipse
2 8 (2.319%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (1.449%) FitNesse
3 5 (1.449%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.159%) WinRunner
5 3 (0.870%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.290%) Maven
6 1 (0.290%) Selenium
6 1 (0.290%) EasyMock
6 1 (0.290%) Mockito
6 1 (0.290%) jMock
6 1 (0.290%) JUnit
General
1 152 (44.06%) Front Office
2 131 (37.97%) Banking
3 82 (23.77%) Finance
4 69 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 8 (2.319%) Retail
6 5 (1.449%) Back Office
7 4 (1.159%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.580%) Legal
8 2 (0.580%) Billing
9 1 (0.290%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 164 (47.54%) Developer
2 114 (33.04%) Analyst
3 69 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 55 (15.94%) Business Analyst
5 47 (13.62%) C# Developer
6 43 (12.46%) Support Analyst
7 36 (10.43%) C++ Developer
8 21 (6.087%) Senior Developer
9 16 (4.638%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 14 (4.058%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (4.058%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.058%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (3.768%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (3.478%) Access Developer
13 11 (3.188%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.899%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.899%) Lead Developer
14 10 (2.899%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.609%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (2.609%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 149 (43.19%) Fixed Income
2 96 (27.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (15.36%) Derivative
4 36 (10.43%) Equities
5 19 (5.507%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 14 (4.058%) Computer Science
7 9 (2.609%) Credit Derivative
8 8 (2.319%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (0.870%) Mathematics
10 2 (0.580%) Physics
10 2 (0.580%) Spread Betting
11 1 (0.290%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.290%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.290%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.290%) Statistics
11 1 (0.290%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.290%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.290%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (26.67%) UNIX
2 73 (21.16%) Windows
3 37 (10.72%) Linux
4 20 (5.797%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.899%) Windows 2000
5 10 (2.899%) Windows NT
5 10 (2.899%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.449%) Solaris
7 3 (0.870%) SUSE
8 1 (0.290%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.290%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (24.35%) Multithreading
2 45 (13.04%) OO
3 43 (12.46%) TDD
4 38 (11.01%) Algorithmic Trading
5 25 (7.246%) Agile Software Development
6 24 (6.957%) E-Commerce
7 23 (6.667%) Project Management
8 17 (4.928%) Change Management
8 17 (4.928%) Release Management
9 15 (4.348%) Business Analysis
10 14 (4.058%) Automated Testing
10 14 (4.058%) UML
10 14 (4.058%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (4.058%) Capacity Management
11 13 (3.768%) Scrum
12 12 (3.478%) ETL
13 11 (3.188%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (2.899%) BDD
15 9 (2.609%) Unit Testing
16 8 (2.319%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.30%) Java
2 104 (30.14%) SQL
3 96 (27.83%) C#
4 66 (19.13%) C++
5 41 (11.88%) Perl
6 25 (7.246%) Python
7 11 (3.188%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.188%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.159%) VB
8 4 (1.159%) C
9 3 (0.870%) VBA
9 3 (0.870%) Scala
10 2 (0.580%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.290%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.290%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (0.290%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.290%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 23 (6.667%) Degree
2 3 (0.870%) ISEB
3 2 (0.580%) PMP
3 2 (0.580%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.290%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.290%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.290%) MCP
4 1 (0.290%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.087%) QA
2 1 (0.290%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.870%) NFS
1 3 (0.870%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (1.159%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.580%) Control-M
3 1 (0.290%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (18.55%) Reuters
2 58 (16.81%) Bloomberg
3 51 (14.78%) ION Trading
4 46 (13.33%) TIBCO
5 28 (8.116%) Oracle
6 25 (7.246%) Microsoft
7 23 (6.667%) Red Hat
8 18 (5.217%) 29West
9 16 (4.638%) Sybase
9 16 (4.638%) eSpeed
10 14 (4.058%) MarketAxess
11 8 (2.319%) Tradeweb
12 7 (2.029%) DevExpress
12 7 (2.029%) Syncfusion
13 5 (1.449%) Fidessa
13 5 (1.449%) Adobe
14 3 (0.870%) Sun
15 2 (0.580%) Charles River
16 1 (0.290%) CQG
16 1 (0.290%) Perforce
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