Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ETRM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETRM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 580 809
Rank change year-on-year +105 +229 -153
Contract jobs citing ETRM 104 114 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.20% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 63 38
10th Percentile £495 £525 £550
25th Percentile £575 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +5.66%
75th Percentile £800 £863 £750
90th Percentile £828 £875 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £578
% change year-on-year - - +32.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £34.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETRM 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETRM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETRM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETRM.

Daily rate trend for ETRM in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETRM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ETRM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETRM.

Hourly rate trend for ETRM in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETRM within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +110 101 £650 -13.33% 41
London +109 99 £650 -13.33% 41
Work from Home +125 38 £725 -6.45% 30

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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 13 (12.50%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.92%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 48 (46.15%) Endur
2 26 (25.00%) Aligne
3 13 (12.50%) EuroRunner
4 5 (4.81%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.96%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) Azure
2 17 (16.35%) AWS
3 16 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.65%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.85%) Serverless
6 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) Power BI
2 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.88%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) SpecFlow
2 3 (2.88%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) JIRA
2 3 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.92%) FitNesse
3 2 (1.92%) Pylint
3 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 38 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (24.04%) Finance
4 23 (22.12%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (16.35%) Front Office
6 13 (12.50%) Back Office
7 2 (1.92%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
7 2 (1.92%) German Language
8 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (53.85%) Analyst
2 52 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 13 (12.50%) ETRM Business Analyst
4 9 (8.65%) Senior
5 6 (5.77%) OpenLink Support
6 5 (4.81%) Commodities Business Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Consultant
6 5 (4.81%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Developer
6 5 (4.81%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Risk Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) ETRM Specialist
7 4 (3.85%) QA Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Energy Trading Business Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) ETRM Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) ETRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) HTML
2 6 (5.77%) XML
3 5 (4.81%) .NET
3 5 (4.81%) Middleware
4 3 (2.88%) IDoc
4 3 (2.88%) JSON
4 3 (2.88%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) ADO
5 2 (1.92%) pytest
5 2 (1.92%) React
5 2 (1.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Renewable Energy
1 17 (16.35%) Solar Panel
2 11 (10.58%) Market Risk
3 10 (9.62%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.85%) Derivative
4 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) Agile
2 28 (26.92%) Business Analysis
3 26 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.23%) Risk Management
6 19 (18.27%) Use Case
7 16 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 16 (15.38%) Test Strategy
8 15 (14.42%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (13.46%) Business Strategy
9 14 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
9 14 (13.46%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (11.54%) Analytics
11 11 (10.58%) DevOps
12 10 (9.62%) Process Improvement
12 10 (9.62%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.65%) Change Management
13 9 (8.65%) Data Analytics
13 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.54%) SQL
2 17 (16.35%) C#
3 6 (5.77%) C
4 5 (4.81%) ABAP
4 5 (4.81%) Python
5 2 (1.92%) Java
5 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) Degree
2 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Oracle
2 15 (14.42%) OpenLink
3 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.65%) SAP
4 5 (4.81%) Triple Point
5 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.88%) webMethods
7 2 (1.92%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.92%) Splunk
8 1 (0.96%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.96%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.96%) Reuters