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 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 507 522
Rank change year-on-year +61 +15 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 37 46 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 104
10th Percentile £703 £714 £650
25th Percentile £788 £775 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £1,100 £878
90th Percentile - £1,250 £950
UK median daily rate £850 £850 £800
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%

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 23,039 34,818 44,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.86% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,129 22,691 31,534
10th Percentile £294 £290 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,688 1,331
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.39 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +45 37 £850 - 23
Electronic Trading Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 37 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 31 (83.78%) Java
3 26 (70.27%) Low Latency
4 21 (56.76%) Front Office
4 21 (56.76%) Agile
5 19 (51.35%) AngularJS
5 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
6 18 (48.65%) Design Patterns
6 18 (48.65%) JIRA
7 17 (45.95%) Reactive Extensions
7 17 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (45.95%) C#
7 17 (45.95%) SQL
7 17 (45.95%) .NET
7 17 (45.95%) Oracle
8 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
9 14 (37.84%) Banking
10 13 (35.14%) OO
10 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
10 13 (35.14%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (32.43%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (32.43%) Economics
12 11 (29.73%) Investment Banking
13 9 (24.32%) Algorithmic Trading
13 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
13 9 (24.32%) Equities
14 8 (21.62%) Smart Order Routing
15 6 (16.22%) FIX Connectivity
15 6 (16.22%) Finance

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (2.70%) npm
1 1 (2.70%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.70%) Multicast
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) KDB
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Babel
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 21 (56.76%) Front Office
2 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (37.84%) Banking
4 11 (29.73%) Investment Banking
5 6 (16.22%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) AngularJS
2 17 (45.95%) .NET
2 17 (45.95%) Reactive Extensions
3 12 (32.43%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 2 (5.41%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) Redux
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (24.32%) Equities
3 6 (16.22%) Derivative
3 6 (16.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (10.81%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.41%) Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.41%) State Machine
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 26 (70.27%) Low Latency
3 21 (56.76%) Agile
4 18 (48.65%) Design Patterns
5 17 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (35.14%) OO
7 12 (32.43%) Economics
8 9 (24.32%) Algorithmic Trading
8 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
9 8 (21.62%) Smart Order Routing
10 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
10 3 (8.11%) Market Making
11 2 (5.41%) Concurrent Programming
11 2 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (5.41%) Integration Testing
11 2 (5.41%) Order Management
11 2 (5.41%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.41%) SDLC
11 2 (5.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (83.78%) Java
2 17 (45.95%) C#
2 17 (45.95%) SQL
3 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
4 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) ION Trading
3 3 (8.11%) Bloomberg
3 3 (8.11%) Solace
4 2 (5.41%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.70%) Tradeweb