Electronic Trading Developer Contracts in London

Electronic Trading Developer
England > London

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate in London is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 352 357
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 37 45 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.27% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 105
10th Percentile £703 £740 £650
25th Percentile £788 £775 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £1,109 £888
90th Percentile - £1,250 £950
England median daily rate £850 £850 £800
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,711 16,574 23,778
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.72% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,938 11,895 17,354
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 324 274
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.17 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -23.33% +3.63%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.49 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.75 £66.85 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in London

Electronic Trading Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Developer in London

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in London

Electronic Trading Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Central London +8 2 £450 -36.84% 5
Electronic Trading Developer
England

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Electronic Trading Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 31 (83.78%) Java
3 26 (70.27%) Low Latency
4 21 (56.76%) Front Office
4 21 (56.76%) Agile
5 19 (51.35%) AngularJS
5 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
6 18 (48.65%) Design Patterns
6 18 (48.65%) JIRA
7 17 (45.95%) Reactive Extensions
7 17 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (45.95%) C#
7 17 (45.95%) SQL
7 17 (45.95%) .NET
7 17 (45.95%) Oracle
8 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
9 14 (37.84%) Banking
10 13 (35.14%) OO
10 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
10 13 (35.14%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (32.43%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (32.43%) Economics
12 11 (29.73%) Investment Banking
13 9 (24.32%) Algorithmic Trading
13 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
13 9 (24.32%) Equities
14 8 (21.62%) Smart Order Routing
15 6 (16.22%) FIX Connectivity
15 6 (16.22%) Finance

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (2.70%) npm
1 1 (2.70%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.70%) Multicast
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) KDB
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Babel
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 21 (56.76%) Front Office
2 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (37.84%) Banking
4 11 (29.73%) Investment Banking
5 6 (16.22%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) AngularJS
2 17 (45.95%) .NET
2 17 (45.95%) Reactive Extensions
3 12 (32.43%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 2 (5.41%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) Redux
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (24.32%) Equities
3 6 (16.22%) Derivative
3 6 (16.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (10.81%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.41%) Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.41%) State Machine
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 26 (70.27%) Low Latency
3 21 (56.76%) Agile
4 18 (48.65%) Design Patterns
5 17 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (35.14%) OO
7 12 (32.43%) Economics
8 9 (24.32%) Algorithmic Trading
8 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
9 8 (21.62%) Smart Order Routing
10 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
10 3 (8.11%) Market Making
11 2 (5.41%) Concurrent Programming
11 2 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (5.41%) Integration Testing
11 2 (5.41%) Order Management
11 2 (5.41%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.41%) SDLC
11 2 (5.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (83.78%) Java
2 17 (45.95%) C#
2 17 (45.95%) SQL
3 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
4 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) ION Trading
3 3 (8.11%) Bloomberg
3 3 (8.11%) Solace
4 2 (5.41%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.70%) Tradeweb