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 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 102 99 113
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Electronic Trading 22 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.22% 1.11% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.21% 1.67%
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% -6.06%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £875
90th Percentile £905 £963 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £650 £825 £775
% change year-on-year -21.21% +6.45% -4.62%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,703 1,900 2,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.24% 91.74% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,251 1,976
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £422 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £790 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Electronic Trading

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Electronic Trading

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 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