Electronic Trading Contracts in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 183 281
Rank change year-on-year -137 +98 +5
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 231 733 721
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 1.45% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.61% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 640 640
10th Percentile £585 £550 £574
25th Percentile £725 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £828
90th Percentile £1,026 £950 £875
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 -93 227 £800 +6.67% 61
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
East of England - 2 £475 -
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 14 (6.06%) Confluence
2 6 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.60%) SAS
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.06%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.87%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.87%) RMDS
3 1 (0.43%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.82%) npm
2 10 (4.33%) Azure
3 4 (1.73%) AWS
3 4 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.30%) Yarn
5 2 (0.87%) Azure App Service
5 2 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.43%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.45%) KDB
2 23 (9.96%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.03%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.30%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (22.94%) JIRA
2 36 (15.58%) TeamCity
3 25 (10.82%) Git
3 25 (10.82%) webpack
4 16 (6.93%) Moq
5 14 (6.06%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.19%) NUnit
7 9 (3.90%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.03%) git-flow
9 6 (2.60%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.73%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.87%) GitLab
12 2 (0.87%) Gradle
12 2 (0.87%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.87%) JUnit
12 2 (0.87%) Mockito
General
1 124 (53.68%) Front Office
2 84 (36.36%) Finance
3 74 (32.03%) Banking
3 74 (32.03%) Social Skills
4 65 (28.14%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (22.94%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.60%) Marketing
7 2 (0.87%) French Language
8 1 (0.43%) Back Office
8 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.43%) Legal
8 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (64.07%) Developer
2 58 (25.11%) Java Developer
3 46 (19.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 43 (18.61%) Senior
5 39 (16.88%) C# Developer
6 32 (13.85%) Senior Developer
7 27 (11.69%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 24 (10.39%) React Developer
9 23 (9.96%) Angular Developer
9 23 (9.96%) UI Developer
10 22 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
11 21 (9.09%) Business Analyst
12 19 (8.23%) Real Time Developer
13 18 (7.79%) Analyst
14 17 (7.36%) Applications Developer
14 17 (7.36%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 17 (7.36%) Senior Java Developer
14 17 (7.36%) Web Applications Developer
15 16 (6.93%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
16 15 (6.49%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (29.87%) React
2 65 (28.14%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (12.99%) WebSockets
4 28 (12.12%) AngularJS
5 27 (11.69%) .NET
5 27 (11.69%) RxJS
6 26 (11.26%) REST
7 25 (10.82%) CSS
8 23 (9.96%) Redux
9 19 (8.23%) Middleware
9 19 (8.23%) WPF
10 16 (6.93%) Reactive Extensions
10 16 (6.93%) XML
11 15 (6.49%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.63%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.19%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (5.19%) RESTful
13 12 (5.19%) SignalR
14 10 (4.33%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (38.96%) Fixed Income
2 41 (17.75%) Derivative
3 37 (16.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.49%) Equities
6 14 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.90%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
10 7 (3.03%) Wiki
11 6 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.73%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.87%) Clustering
14 2 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.72%) Unix
2 32 (13.85%) Linux
3 7 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.10%) Agile
2 56 (24.24%) Low Latency
3 46 (19.91%) Design Patterns
4 42 (18.18%) Algorithmic Trading
4 42 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (16.45%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (16.45%) Multithreading
5 38 (16.45%) Software Engineering
6 34 (14.72%) Test Automation
7 33 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (12.55%) TDD
9 27 (11.69%) CI/CD
9 27 (11.69%) Economics
10 26 (11.26%) OO
10 26 (11.26%) SDLC
11 25 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (9.96%) Risk Management
13 22 (9.52%) Web Application Development
14 21 (9.09%) Analytics
14 21 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.10%) Java
2 72 (31.17%) C#
3 61 (26.41%) SQL
4 58 (25.11%) TypeScript
5 51 (22.08%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.69%) Python
7 6 (2.60%) C++
8 5 (2.16%) Perl
9 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) Bash
10 2 (0.87%) Bicep
10 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Degree
2 11 (4.76%) CCNA
2 11 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) QA
2 9 (3.90%) MiFID
3 8 (3.46%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (3.46%) EMIR
4 6 (2.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.43%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (15.15%) ION Trading
2 21 (9.09%) TIBCO
3 18 (7.79%) Bloomberg
4 16 (6.93%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.49%) MarketAxess
6 11 (4.76%) Cisco
6 11 (4.76%) Solace
7 6 (2.60%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.73%) Murex
9 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.30%) Google
9 3 (1.30%) Reuters
10 2 (0.87%) Arista
10 2 (0.87%) BT
10 2 (0.87%) HP
10 2 (0.87%) IBM
10 2 (0.87%) Radianz
10 2 (0.87%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.87%) Splunk