Electronic Trading Java Developer Contracts in England

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
UK > England

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading daily rate in England is £788, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 531 540
Rank change year-on-year +62 +9 +75
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 19 24 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.064% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.069% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 85
10th Percentile £583 - £650
25th Percentile £679 £775 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £863 £825
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £847 £1,250 £925
90th Percentile £900 - £950
UK median daily rate £788 £863 £825
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 23,029 34,989 44,402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.85% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,126 22,793 31,523
10th Percentile £293 £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 1,040 2,704 1,331
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in England

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in England

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Java Developer in England

Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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 +43 19 £788 -10.00% 12
Electronic Trading Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Java
1 19 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 16 (84.21%) Low Latency
3 14 (73.68%) Banking
4 12 (63.16%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
6 9 (47.37%) Algorithmic Trading
6 9 (47.37%) Equities
6 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
7 8 (42.11%) Smart Order Routing
8 6 (31.58%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (31.58%) Finance
8 6 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (31.58%) Linux
8 6 (31.58%) Derivative
9 5 (26.32%) KDB
10 4 (21.05%) Agile
10 4 (21.05%) ION Trading
10 4 (21.05%) Front Office
10 4 (21.05%) Fixed Income
11 3 (15.79%) Bloomberg
11 3 (15.79%) Unix
11 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
11 3 (15.79%) Market Making
11 3 (15.79%) Solace
11 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
12 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
12 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving

Electronic Trading Java 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 (5.26%) GitHub
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (5.26%) Multicast
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) KDB
2 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Gradle
2 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (73.68%) Banking
2 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Front Office
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Equities
2 6 (31.58%) Derivative
2 6 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (21.05%) Fixed Income
4 2 (10.53%) Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.53%) State Machine
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 16 (84.21%) Low Latency
3 9 (47.37%) Algorithmic Trading
3 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
4 8 (42.11%) Smart Order Routing
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Market Making
7 2 (10.53%) Concurrent Programming
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Order Management
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) SDLC
7 2 (10.53%) TDD
8 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.26%) DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) Integration Testing
8 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ION Trading
2 3 (15.79%) Bloomberg
2 3 (15.79%) Solace
3 2 (10.53%) Refinitiv
4 1 (5.26%) Tradeweb