Market Making Contracts

Market Maker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Market Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Market Making over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 588 826
Rank change year-on-year +2 +238 -143
Contract jobs citing Market Making 4 115 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.19% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.22% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 106 33
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile £531 £588 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £594 £800 £738
90th Percentile - £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £473
% change year-on-year - - +52.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Market Making 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Making within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +14 4 £563 -16.67% 49
London -17 4 £563 -16.67% 49

Market Making
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Agriculture
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Quantitative Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Sharing
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java