Electronic Trading Contracts in Central London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 120 55
Rank change year-on-year +22 -65 +49
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 31 13 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 0.53% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.59% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 115
10th Percentile £525 £536 £613
25th Percentile £638 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +1.01%
75th Percentile £813 £838 £950
90th Percentile £895 £868 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Electronic Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +26 31 £750 -3.23% 3
Electronic Trading
London

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (12.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) KDB
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Banking
4 8 (25.81%) Front Office
5 7 (22.58%) Investment Banking
6 6 (19.35%) Financial Institution
7 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (9.68%) Back Office
7 3 (9.68%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Retail
7 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Team Leader
4 4 (12.90%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Compliance Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) MiFID Specialist
5 3 (9.68%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (9.68%) FpML
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) HTML5
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (22.58%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Equities
4 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) CentOS
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Algorithmic Trading
2 11 (35.48%) Market Making
3 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 9 (29.03%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Deployment
5 7 (22.58%) Low Latency
6 4 (12.90%) DevOps
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Automated Trading
7 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
7 3 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce
7 3 (9.68%) Internal Audit
7 3 (9.68%) Multithreading
7 3 (9.68%) SDLC
7 3 (9.68%) Service Delivery
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Validation
7 3 (9.68%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Java
2 9 (29.03%) C++
3 8 (25.81%) Python
4 7 (22.58%) C
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
6 2 (6.45%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CCNP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) MiFID
1 3 (9.68%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Arista
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco
1 2 (6.45%) F5
1 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Dell
2 1 (3.23%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.23%) HP
2 1 (3.23%) ION Trading