Market Making Contracts in England

Market Maker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Market Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Making over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 538 538
Rank change year-on-year +100 0 +213
Contract jobs citing Market Making 37 4 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.011% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.013% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 106
10th Percentile £524 - £569
25th Percentile £614 £531 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -19.64% -
75th Percentile £784 £594 £806
90th Percentile £913 - £825
UK median daily rate £675 £563 £700
% change year-on-year +20.00% -19.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Market Making 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 22,017 31,802 44,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.19% 86.49% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,406 20,831 31,133
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
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 £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,249 1,562
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.91 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.18 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Market Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Market Making in England

Market Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Market Making in England.

Daily rate trend for Market Making in England

Market Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Making in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Making in England

Market Making
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 Market Making within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +69 37 £675 +20.00% 119
Market Making
UK

Market Making
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 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
2 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) KDB
2 2 (5.41%) Hazelcast
2 2 (5.41%) Redis
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (5.41%) JUnit
General
1 19 (51.35%) Finance
2 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Front Office
4 7 (18.92%) Financial Institution
5 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Developer
1 10 (27.03%) Lead
1 10 (27.03%) Software Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Algorithm Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Team Leader
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (8.11%) Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) C++ Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.81%) Middleware
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) Blazor
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) HTML5
5 2 (5.41%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Algorithms
1 15 (40.54%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (29.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (29.73%) Hedge funds
3 9 (24.32%) Data Structures
4 7 (18.92%) Equities
5 5 (13.51%) TWAP
5 5 (13.51%) VWAP
6 3 (8.11%) Derivative
6 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
7 2 (5.41%) Wiki
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.70%) DTCC
8 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (2.70%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (2.70%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 25 (67.57%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) Algorithmic Trading
2 22 (59.46%) Electronic Trading
3 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
4 18 (48.65%) Low Latency
5 14 (37.84%) Software Engineering
6 11 (29.73%) Continuous Deployment
6 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.03%) OO
7 10 (27.03%) Proprietary Trading
8 9 (24.32%) Agile
8 9 (24.32%) OOP
9 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
9 8 (21.62%) Scrum
9 8 (21.62%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (10.81%) Critical Thinking
10 4 (10.81%) Fintech
10 4 (10.81%) Order Management
10 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (10.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Java
2 23 (62.16%) C++
2 23 (62.16%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) C
4 3 (8.11%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
1 8 (21.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (2.70%) EMIR
1 1 (2.70%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle