Electronic Trading Contract Job Trends in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Electronic Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 221 132
Rank change year-on-year -47 -89 -26
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 103 157 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.04% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.16% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 319
10th Percentile £467 £555 £550
25th Percentile £572 £697 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +10.00% -2.60%
75th Percentile £878 £888 £850
90th Percentile £975 £950 £938
England median daily rate £738 £825 £750
% change year-on-year -10.61% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Electronic Trading 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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronic Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Electronic Trading job vacancy trend in London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -6 17 £650 -18.75% 6
South London -2 1 - - 3
East London - 1 - -
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.80%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.94%) Endur
3 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.97%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.97%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.97%) MetaTrader
3 1 (0.97%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.83%) npm
1 6 (5.83%) Yarn
2 5 (4.85%) Azure
3 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.94%) AWS
4 2 (1.94%) GitHub
4 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) Multicast
2 6 (5.83%) tcpdump
3 5 (4.85%) Firewall
3 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.88%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (2.91%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.94%) SSL
7 1 (0.97%) BGP
7 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.97%) OSPF
7 1 (0.97%) SSH
7 1 (0.97%) Unicast
7 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) KDB
2 7 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.80%) Kdb+
3 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.97%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.97%) HBase
5 1 (0.97%) Looker
5 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.68%) Git
3 7 (6.80%) Maven
4 6 (5.83%) webpack
5 5 (4.85%) GCC
5 5 (4.85%) GDB
6 3 (2.91%) Gradle
7 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.94%) JIRA
7 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.97%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.97%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.97%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 54 (52.43%) Front Office
2 50 (48.54%) Finance
3 43 (41.75%) Social Skills
4 41 (39.81%) Banking
5 26 (25.24%) Investment Banking
6 21 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.83%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.85%) International Banking
9 4 (3.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.97%) Law
10 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (56.31%) Developer
2 28 (27.18%) Java Developer
3 27 (26.21%) Senior
4 23 (22.33%) Senior Developer
5 20 (19.42%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 18 (17.48%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 13 (12.62%) Analyst
8 12 (11.65%) Python Developer
9 9 (8.74%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (7.77%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.80%) Front Office Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 6 (5.83%) Business Analyst
13 5 (4.85%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 5 (4.85%) C++ Developer
13 5 (4.85%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
13 5 (4.85%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 5 (4.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (36.89%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (13.59%) Middleware
3 12 (11.65%) Kafka
4 8 (7.77%) React
5 7 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (5.83%) CSS
6 6 (5.83%) REST
6 6 (5.83%) Ultra Messaging
7 5 (4.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 5 (4.85%) STL
8 4 (3.88%) .NET
8 4 (3.88%) HTML
8 4 (3.88%) Redux
8 4 (3.88%) RESTful
9 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.91%) RxJS
9 3 (2.91%) Spring
10 2 (1.94%) JSON
10 2 (1.94%) Rendezvous
10 2 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (43.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (38.83%) Fixed Income
3 18 (17.48%) Derivative
4 15 (14.56%) Equities
5 12 (11.65%) Algorithms
6 11 (10.68%) Data Structures
7 8 (7.77%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
9 6 (5.83%) TWAP
9 6 (5.83%) VWAP
10 5 (4.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.94%) Clustering
12 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (39.81%) Linux
2 12 (11.65%) Unix
3 6 (5.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) Low Latency
2 23 (22.33%) Multithreading
2 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (20.39%) DevOps
4 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.50%) Algorithmic Trading
6 16 (15.53%) Agile
7 14 (13.59%) Event-Driven
8 12 (11.65%) Design Patterns
8 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (10.68%) High Availability
9 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (10.68%) TDD
10 10 (9.71%) Analytics
10 10 (9.71%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (9.71%) Observability
10 10 (9.71%) Risk Management
10 10 (9.71%) Smart Order Routing
11 9 (8.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.75%) Java
2 39 (37.86%) Python
3 29 (28.16%) SQL
4 13 (12.62%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.80%) C++
6 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.83%) Bash
7 6 (5.83%) C#
8 4 (3.88%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.91%) Go
10 2 (1.94%) Perl
11 1 (0.97%) Clojure
11 1 (0.97%) R
11 1 (0.97%) Rust
11 1 (0.97%) Scala
11 1 (0.97%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Degree
2 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.97%) CCIE
3 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) EMIR
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (15.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 18 (17.48%) ITRS Geneos
2 16 (15.53%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.62%) Ansible
4 7 (6.80%) Kibana
4 7 (6.80%) logstash
5 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.88%) Grafana
7 3 (2.91%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (23.30%) Solace
2 16 (15.53%) ION Trading
3 11 (10.68%) Bloomberg
4 9 (8.74%) TIBCO
5 7 (6.80%) Tradeweb
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle
7 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.88%) Splunk
8 3 (2.91%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.91%) MarketAxess
8 3 (2.91%) Trayport
9 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.94%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.94%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.94%) Reuters
9 2 (1.94%) Sybase
10 1 (0.97%) Charles River
10 1 (0.97%) Radianz