Market Making Contracts in the City of London

Market Maker
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Market Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Making over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 123 135
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +53
Contract jobs citing Market Making 14 3 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.14% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.15% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 28
10th Percentile £470 - £588
25th Percentile £538 £531 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -29.73%
75th Percentile £656 £594 £675
90th Percentile £698 - £738
Central London median daily rate £638 £563 £650
% change year-on-year +13.33% -13.46% -29.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Market Making 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 1,628 1,982 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.30% 90.59% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,403 2,228
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
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% -13.58%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Making in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Market Making in the City of London

Market Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Making in the City of London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) KDB
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Front Office
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Algorithm Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) HTML5
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) Blazor
2 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Equities
2 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 2 (14.29%) TWAP
3 2 (14.29%) VWAP
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Algorithmic Trading
2 10 (71.43%) Electronic Trading
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (42.86%) Low Latency
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Automated Trading
7 2 (14.29%) ETRM
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
8 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
8 1 (7.14%) Kanban
8 1 (7.14%) OO
8 1 (7.14%) OOD
8 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C++
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) C
4 2 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree