Direct Market Access Contracts in London

Direct Market Access (DMA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Direct Market Access skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Direct Market Access over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 - 474
Rank change year-on-year - - +125
Contract jobs citing Direct Market Access 1 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% - 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 18
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - £653
90th Percentile - - £730
England median daily rate £580 - £600

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Direct Market Access 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,511 15,659 23,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.72% 90.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,804 11,215 17,170
10th Percentile £350 £341 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 313 270
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.00 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -26.80% +4.08%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.40 £80.23
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

Direct Market Access
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Direct Market Access as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Direct Market Access in London

Direct Market Access
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Direct Market Access in London.

Daily rate trend for Direct Market Access in London

Direct Market Access
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript