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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 108 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -52
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Electronic Trading 22 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 1.00% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.09% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 42
10th Percentile £558 £605 £533
25th Percentile £618 £765 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £825 £775
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +6.45% -4.62%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £875
90th Percentile £905 £963 £1,063
London median daily rate £775 £850 £725
% change year-on-year -8.82% +17.24% -6.45%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,873 2,114 3,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.93% 91.75% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,418 2,125
10th Percentile £321 £373 £350
25th Percentile £419 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £703
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 17
10th Percentile £19.05 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.16% -12.50% +6.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 22 £650 -21.21% 8
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) npm
1 1 (4.55%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) SAN
2 2 (9.09%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.55%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) KDB
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Babel
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 14 (63.64%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Banking
3 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
4 8 (36.36%) Front Office
5 7 (31.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
7 2 (9.09%) Advertising
7 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Electronic Trading Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 1 (4.55%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) React Developer
6 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (9.09%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Jest
4 1 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Redux
4 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (36.36%) Fixed Income
3 6 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
5 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
5 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
5 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) HP Storage
6 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Low Latency
2 7 (31.82%) Algorithmic Trading
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (22.73%) Data Science
3 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
3 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (22.73%) High-Frequency Trading
3 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
3 5 (22.73%) Multithreading
3 5 (22.73%) Observability
3 5 (22.73%) RBAC
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
3 5 (22.73%) Time Management
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (13.64%) OO
5 3 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CCNP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) PhD
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Kibana
2 5 (22.73%) logstash
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
4 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Solace
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.64%) Sun
3 2 (9.09%) Arista
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Dell
3 2 (9.09%) F5
3 2 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) ION Trading
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Hitachi
4 1 (4.55%) Tenable
4 1 (4.55%) VMware