Trade Surveillance Contract Job Trends in England

Trade Surveillance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Trade Surveillance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 518 571
Rank change year-on-year +4 +53 +188
Contract jobs citing Trade Surveillance 17 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.058% 0.029% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.033% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 6
10th Percentile £526 £456 £500
25th Percentile £580 £509 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £806 £647 £756
90th Percentile £938 £713 £789
UK median daily rate £700 £625 £688
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Trade Surveillance 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 26,653 26,912 35,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.59% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,923 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,722 972 1,474
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%

Trade Surveillance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Trade Surveillance job vacancy trend in England

Trade Surveillance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Trade Surveillance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Trade Surveillance

Trade Surveillance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trade Surveillance in England over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Trade Surveillance in England

Trade Surveillance
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 Trade Surveillance within the England region over the 6 months to 5 November 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 +20 17 £700 +12.00% 14
Trade Surveillance
UK

Trade Surveillance
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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Actimize
2 1 (5.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) WeChat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Investment Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Front Office
6 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Compliance Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Compliance Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Delivery Director
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Market Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (23.53%) Derivative
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
4 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) KYC
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) AI
5 2 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (11.76%) Project Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CBAP
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CFA
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) MiFID
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (5.88%) FINRA
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.88%) Calypso
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Murex
2 1 (5.88%) Refinitiv