Proprietary Trading Contracts

Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Proprietary Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proprietary Trading over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 - 861
Rank change year-on-year - - -176
Contract jobs citing Proprietary Trading 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proprietary 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
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 Proprietary Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 - 1 £750 - 39
England - 1 £750 - 39

Proprietary Trading
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# GUI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# WPF Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) GUI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#