Electronic Trading Java Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
England > London

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading daily rate in London is £788, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 336 398
Rank change year-on-year -15 +62 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 10 44 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.076% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 34 63
10th Percentile £604 - £700
25th Percentile £620 £763 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £825 £850
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £956 £913 £938
90th Percentile £1,050 £950 -
England median daily rate £788 £825 £838
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.49% +1.52%

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 12,265 15,131 21,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.07% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 10,167 15,334
10th Percentile £325 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.03%
75th Percentile £50.25 £56.00 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer job vacancies 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +2 1 £900 +13.39%
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 15 September 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 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 10 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 7 (70.00%) Multithreading
4 6 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 6 (60.00%) Fixed Income
5 4 (40.00%) Front Office
5 4 (40.00%) KDB
5 4 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (30.00%) Unix
6 3 (30.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (30.00%) Banking
7 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) TDD
7 2 (20.00%) Market Making
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Solace
7 2 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
7 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) Memory Management
7 2 (20.00%) Kdb+
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Multicast
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) KDB
2 2 (20.00%) Kdb+
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Front Office
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Fixed Income
1 6 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 10 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 7 (70.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (30.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Market Making
4 2 (20.00%) Memory Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Automated Trading
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Direct Market Access
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Solace
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase