Electronic Trading Java Developer Contracts in London

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
England > London

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading daily rate in London is £703, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 364 377
Rank change year-on-year +34 +13 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 23 27 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.15% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 103
10th Percentile £583 £775 £650
25th Percentile £600 £825 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £703 £1,250 £800
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £834 - £863
90th Percentile £900 - £950
England median daily rate £703 £1,250 £800
% change year-on-year -43.80% +56.25% -

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in London

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in London

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Java Developer in London

Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 1 £450 -
Electronic Trading Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Java
1 23 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 20 (86.96%) Low Latency
2 20 (86.96%) Banking
3 18 (78.26%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (69.57%) Smart Order Routing
5 14 (60.87%) Investment Banking
6 13 (56.52%) Equities
7 12 (52.17%) Algorithmic Trading
8 11 (47.83%) Derivative
8 11 (47.83%) FIX Connectivity
9 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
10 7 (30.43%) Front Office
10 7 (30.43%) ION Trading
11 5 (21.74%) Order Management
11 5 (21.74%) State Machine
11 5 (21.74%) Solace
11 5 (21.74%) Concurrent Programming
12 4 (17.39%) KDB
13 3 (13.04%) QA
13 3 (13.04%) Finance
13 3 (13.04%) Fixed Income
13 3 (13.04%) Agile
13 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
13 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
14 2 (8.70%) SDLC
14 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
14 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
14 2 (8.70%) Linux

Electronic Trading Java 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) KDB
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Gradle
1 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (86.96%) Banking
2 14 (60.87%) Investment Banking
3 7 (30.43%) Front Office
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (78.26%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Equities
2 11 (47.83%) Derivative
3 5 (21.74%) State Machine
4 3 (13.04%) Fixed Income
4 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.35%) Clustering
6 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 20 (86.96%) Low Latency
3 16 (69.57%) Smart Order Routing
4 12 (52.17%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
6 5 (21.74%) Concurrent Programming
6 5 (21.74%) Order Management
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
8 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (8.70%) SDLC
9 1 (4.35%) Clean Code
9 1 (4.35%) Continuous Delivery
9 1 (4.35%) Critical Thinking
9 1 (4.35%) Design Patterns
9 1 (4.35%) Market Making
9 1 (4.35%) Multithreaded Programming
9 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (4.35%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) ION Trading
2 5 (21.74%) Solace
3 2 (8.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.35%) Refinitiv
4 1 (4.35%) Tradeweb