Electronic Trading Contracts in the City of London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 115 58
Rank change year-on-year +21 -57 +42
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 29 12 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.65% 0.55% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.60% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 114
10th Percentile £525 £526 £613
25th Percentile £625 £655 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £788 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £825 £838 £950
90th Percentile £905 £871 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £750 £788 £750
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.45%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) BIG-IP
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) KDB
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Front Office
4 7 (24.14%) Investment Banking
5 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (10.34%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (10.34%) Retail
6 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
7 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Team Leader
3 4 (13.79%) Front Office Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Compliance Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) MiFID Specialist
4 3 (10.34%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) FpML
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) HTML5
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 2 (6.90%) Reactive Extensions
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Equities
3 2 (6.90%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) CentOS
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Algorithmic Trading
2 10 (34.48%) Market Making
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (24.14%) Low Latency
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (13.79%) DevOps
7 4 (13.79%) Migration
8 3 (10.34%) Automated Trading
8 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Internal Audit
8 3 (10.34%) Multithreading
8 3 (10.34%) SDLC
8 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.34%) Validation
8 3 (10.34%) Wealth Management
9 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) C++
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) C
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) CCNP
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) MiFID
2 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Arista
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco
1 2 (6.90%) F5
1 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Dell
2 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.45%) HP
2 1 (3.45%) ION Trading