Electronic Trading Developer Contracts in England

Electronic Trading Developer
UK > England

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate in England is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 498 488
Rank change year-on-year +51 -10 +91
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 38 44 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 144
10th Percentile £600 £775 £650
25th Percentile £775 £809 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile - £1,250 £863
90th Percentile - - £975
UK median daily rate £850 £850 £800
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer within the England 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
London +32 38 £850 - 6
Electronic Trading Developer
UK

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Electronic Trading Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 35 (92.11%) Java
3 30 (78.95%) Low Latency
4 22 (57.89%) Front Office
5 20 (52.63%) Banking
6 18 (47.37%) Agile
6 18 (47.37%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (42.11%) JIRA
7 16 (42.11%) AngularJS
7 16 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
7 16 (42.11%) Smart Order Routing
7 16 (42.11%) Design Patterns
8 15 (39.47%) Reactive Extensions
8 15 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (39.47%) C#
8 15 (39.47%) SQL
8 15 (39.47%) .NET
8 15 (39.47%) Oracle
9 14 (36.84%) Investment Banking
10 13 (34.21%) Equities
10 13 (34.21%) OO
10 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (31.58%) TypeScript
11 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
11 12 (31.58%) Economics
11 12 (31.58%) Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (28.95%) Derivative
12 11 (28.95%) FIX Connectivity
13 10 (26.32%) Multithreading

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) KDB
2 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Gradle
2 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (57.89%) Front Office
2 20 (52.63%) Banking
3 16 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 14 (36.84%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (42.11%) AngularJS
3 15 (39.47%) .NET
3 15 (39.47%) Reactive Extensions
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) HTML5
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
4 1 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) Spring
4 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (34.21%) Equities
2 11 (28.95%) Derivative
3 5 (13.16%) State Machine
4 3 (7.89%) Fixed Income
4 3 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) Clustering
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 30 (78.95%) Low Latency
3 18 (47.37%) Agile
4 16 (42.11%) Design Patterns
4 16 (42.11%) Smart Order Routing
5 15 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (34.21%) OO
7 12 (31.58%) Algorithmic Trading
7 12 (31.58%) Economics
8 10 (26.32%) Multithreading
9 5 (13.16%) Concurrent Programming
9 5 (13.16%) Order Management
10 3 (7.89%) Test Strategy
11 2 (5.26%) CI/CD
11 2 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (5.26%) SDLC
12 1 (2.63%) Clean Code
12 1 (2.63%) Continuous Delivery
12 1 (2.63%) Market Making
12 1 (2.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) Java
2 15 (39.47%) C#
2 15 (39.47%) SQL
3 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 12 (31.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) ION Trading
3 5 (13.16%) Solace
4 2 (5.26%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.63%) Tradeweb