Spread Betting Contract Job Trends in England

Spread Betting
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spread Betting in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spread Betting over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 497 557
Rank change year-on-year -120 +60 +72
Contract jobs citing Spread Betting 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.020% 0.021% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £634
25th Percentile £813 - £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £838 - £722
90th Percentile - - £731
UK median daily rate £825 - £688
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

All Generic Skills
England

Spread Betting falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,875 9,488 11,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.21% 34.87% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,238 6,018 7,226
10th Percentile £317 £306 £290
25th Percentile £420 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 798 471 743
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +45.32% -19.33% +25.00%

Spread Betting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spread Betting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Spread Betting job vacancy trend in England

Spread Betting
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spread Betting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spread Betting

Spread Betting
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spread Betting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spread Betting

Spread Betting
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 Spread Betting within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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 -80 3 £825 - 3
Spread Betting
UK

Spread Betting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle