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 during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 358 389
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 -48
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 43 137 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 122 205
10th Percentile £735 £628 £725
25th Percentile £775 £700 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £788 £800
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -1.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £1,250 £863 £875
90th Percentile - £973 £900
England median daily rate £850 £788 £800
% change year-on-year +7.94% -1.56% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,327 24,623 36,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.18% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,806 17,900 26,936
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 280 437
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.23 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 2024. 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
East London - 2 £850 -
Central London +35 1 £713 +1.79%
Electronic Trading Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 43 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 33 (76.74%) Fixed Income
3 26 (60.47%) Java
4 25 (58.14%) Front Office
5 24 (55.81%) Agile
6 20 (46.51%) Design Patterns
7 16 (37.21%) Relational Database
7 16 (37.21%) Banking
7 16 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (34.88%) JIRA
8 15 (34.88%) Algorithmic Trading
8 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
9 14 (32.56%) React
9 14 (32.56%) Investment Banking
10 13 (30.23%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (30.23%) Economics
10 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
11 12 (27.91%) KDB
11 12 (27.91%) Multithreading
12 11 (25.58%) Finance
12 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (23.26%) TDD
14 9 (20.93%) Redux
14 9 (20.93%) SQL
14 9 (20.93%) Cypress.io
14 9 (20.93%) Reactive Extensions
14 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
14 9 (20.93%) Refactoring
15 8 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) Relational Database
2 12 (27.91%) KDB
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) JIRA
2 9 (20.93%) Cypress.io
3 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
4 4 (9.30%) webpack
5 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) Gradle
5 2 (4.65%) IntelliJ
General
1 25 (58.14%) Front Office
2 16 (37.21%) Banking
3 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
4 14 (32.56%) Investment Banking
5 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (25.58%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) React
2 13 (30.23%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (20.93%) Reactive Extensions
3 9 (20.93%) Redux
4 6 (13.95%) REST
4 6 (13.95%) Spring
5 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.30%) RxJS
5 4 (9.30%) WebSockets
5 4 (9.30%) WPF
6 3 (6.98%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) JSON
7 2 (4.65%) XML
8 1 (2.33%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 33 (76.74%) Fixed Income
2 8 (18.60%) Algorithms
3 7 (16.28%) Data Structures
3 7 (16.28%) Derivative
3 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (11.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (9.30%) Wiki
6 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.65%) Equities
7 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 24 (55.81%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) Design Patterns
4 16 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (34.88%) Algorithmic Trading
6 13 (30.23%) Economics
7 12 (27.91%) Multithreading
8 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (23.26%) TDD
10 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
10 9 (20.93%) Refactoring
11 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
11 8 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
12 7 (16.28%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (16.28%) Critical Thinking
12 7 (16.28%) OO
13 6 (13.95%) Clean Code
13 6 (13.95%) End-to-End Testing
13 6 (13.95%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.93%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) C#
5 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) ION Trading