Electronic Trading Contracts in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 322 183
Rank change year-on-year -17 -139 +93
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 146 229 733
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.62% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.71% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 213 640
10th Percentile £545 £580 £550
25th Percentile £663 £725 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £875 £1,035 £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £64.25
UK median hourly rate - - £64.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
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 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 -25 146 £750 -6.25% 110
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic Trading
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.42%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.22%) npm
1 12 (8.22%) Yarn
2 4 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.05%) AWS
3 3 (2.05%) Azure
4 2 (1.37%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.68%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (4.79%) Firewall
3 3 (2.05%) DNS
3 3 (2.05%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.37%) BGP
4 2 (1.37%) DHCP
4 2 (1.37%) HSRP
4 2 (1.37%) IGMP
4 2 (1.37%) Multicast
4 2 (1.37%) OSPF
4 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.37%) VRRP
5 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.16%) KDB
2 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.05%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.68%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (19.86%) Git
2 19 (13.01%) JIRA
3 12 (8.22%) webpack
4 3 (2.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 75 (51.37%) Finance
2 72 (49.32%) Banking
3 53 (36.30%) Front Office
4 51 (34.93%) Investment Banking
5 49 (33.56%) Social Skills
6 31 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (17.81%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.42%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.42%) French Language
8 5 (3.42%) Retail
8 5 (3.42%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (52.74%) Developer
2 38 (26.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 34 (23.29%) Senior
4 32 (21.92%) Java Developer
5 27 (18.49%) Senior Developer
6 24 (16.44%) Analyst
7 23 (15.75%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 19 (13.01%) Business Analyst
8 19 (13.01%) C# Developer
9 16 (10.96%) Real Time Developer
10 15 (10.27%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
11 13 (8.90%) .NET Developer
11 13 (8.90%) C# .NET Developer
12 12 (8.22%) Lead
12 12 (8.22%) UI Developer
13 11 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (7.53%) Senior UI Developer
14 10 (6.85%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
14 10 (6.85%) Front Office Business Analyst
14 10 (6.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.49%) FIX Protocol
2 21 (14.38%) AngularJS
3 18 (12.33%) .NET
4 17 (11.64%) Reactive Extensions
5 15 (10.27%) React
6 12 (8.22%) CSS
7 8 (5.48%) Spring
8 5 (3.42%) Redux
8 5 (3.42%) RxJS
9 3 (2.05%) FpML
9 3 (2.05%) HTML
9 3 (2.05%) HTML5
9 3 (2.05%) RxJava
10 2 (1.37%) JSON
10 2 (1.37%) Kafka
10 2 (1.37%) Middleware
10 2 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (1.37%) REST
10 2 (1.37%) RESTful
10 2 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.77%) Derivative
2 38 (26.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (13.01%) Equities
4 17 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (11.64%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (10.96%) Fixed Income
6 11 (7.53%) Data Structures
7 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
8 8 (5.48%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.42%) State Machine
10 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
11 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
11 3 (2.05%) Eurex
11 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.05%) Wiki
12 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.37%) Solar Panel
13 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 34 (23.29%) Linux
2 14 (9.59%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) CentOS
4 4 (2.74%) Windows
5 2 (1.37%) Rocky
6 1 (0.68%) Debian
6 1 (0.68%) Fedora
6 1 (0.68%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) SUSE
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.51%) Agile
2 44 (30.14%) Low Latency
3 40 (27.40%) Algorithmic Trading
4 35 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.12%) Economics
6 22 (15.07%) Market Making
7 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 20 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (13.70%) Design Patterns
8 19 (13.01%) Customer Requirements
8 19 (13.01%) OO
9 17 (11.64%) Event-Driven
10 16 (10.96%) Business Analysis
10 16 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (10.96%) Smart Order Routing
11 15 (10.27%) Multithreading
11 15 (10.27%) Test Automation
12 14 (9.59%) Web Development
13 13 (8.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.11%) Java
2 34 (23.29%) Python
3 31 (21.23%) SQL
4 27 (18.49%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.12%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.38%) C#
7 18 (12.33%) C++
8 14 (9.59%) C
9 6 (4.11%) Bash
10 4 (2.74%) Haskell
10 4 (2.74%) OCaml
10 4 (2.74%) Scala
11 3 (2.05%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) Degree
2 6 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.68%) CCNP
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.74%) Ansible
3 3 (2.05%) Rundeck
4 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) ION Trading
2 17 (11.64%) Oracle
3 12 (8.22%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.11%) Solace
5 5 (3.42%) Arista
5 5 (3.42%) Bloomberg
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco
5 5 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.05%) CQG
6 3 (2.05%) Dell
6 3 (2.05%) F5
6 3 (2.05%) Patsystems
6 3 (2.05%) Reuters
6 3 (2.05%) Trayport
7 2 (1.37%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.37%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.37%) HP
7 2 (1.37%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.68%) OpenLink