Electronic Trading Contracts in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 212 114
Rank change year-on-year +5 -98 +40
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 145 194 558
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.10% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.24% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 178 497
10th Percentile £600 £668 £528
25th Percentile £663 £750 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £850 £925 £863
90th Percentile £875 £1,100 £950
England median daily rate £775 £825 £750
% change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -3.23%

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 11,665 15,594 22,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.40% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,821 11,134 16,508
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in London.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

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 25 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 +19 31 £700 -8.50% 33
East London +13 2 £900 +5.88% 15
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
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 6 (4.14%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.90%) npm
1 10 (6.90%) Yarn
2 4 (2.76%) AWS
2 4 (2.76%) Azure
2 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.38%) GitHub
3 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.69%) GCP
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) Firewall
1 6 (4.14%) FIX Connectivity
1 6 (4.14%) Multicast
2 2 (1.38%) BGP
2 2 (1.38%) HSRP
2 2 (1.38%) IGMP
2 2 (1.38%) OSPF
2 2 (1.38%) SAN
2 2 (1.38%) VRRP
3 1 (0.69%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) KDB
2 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.38%) Big Data
4 2 (1.38%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.38%) Redis
4 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.69%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (17.93%) Git
2 22 (15.17%) JIRA
3 10 (6.90%) webpack
4 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.07%) GCC
5 3 (2.07%) GDB
5 3 (2.07%) GitLab
6 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.69%) Babel
7 1 (0.69%) Gradle
7 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 74 (51.03%) Finance
2 66 (45.52%) Banking
3 59 (40.69%) Front Office
4 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
5 53 (36.55%) Investment Banking
6 29 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (15.86%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.45%) Retail
8 5 (3.45%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.07%) International Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (54.48%) Developer
2 37 (25.52%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 31 (21.38%) Java Developer
4 28 (19.31%) Senior
5 24 (16.55%) Senior Developer
6 19 (13.10%) C# Developer
6 19 (13.10%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 18 (12.41%) Real Time Developer
8 17 (11.72%) Business Analyst
8 17 (11.72%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
9 15 (10.34%) .NET Developer
9 15 (10.34%) C# .NET Developer
10 14 (9.66%) Analyst
11 13 (8.97%) Lead
12 11 (7.59%) Front Office Developer
13 10 (6.90%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 10 (6.90%) Front Office Business Analyst
13 10 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (6.21%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (6.21%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) FIX Protocol
2 23 (15.86%) AngularJS
3 19 (13.10%) .NET
3 19 (13.10%) Reactive Extensions
4 12 (8.28%) React
5 10 (6.90%) CSS
6 7 (4.83%) Spring
7 6 (4.14%) Middleware
8 3 (2.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.07%) HTML
8 3 (2.07%) HTML5
8 3 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (2.07%) Redux
8 3 (2.07%) REST
8 3 (2.07%) RESTful
8 3 (2.07%) RxJava
8 3 (2.07%) STL
9 2 (1.38%) Kafka
9 2 (1.38%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (20.00%) Derivative
3 24 (16.55%) Fixed Income
4 17 (11.72%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.28%) Equities
7 11 (7.59%) Algorithms
7 11 (7.59%) Data Structures
8 7 (4.83%) Hedge funds
9 4 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.76%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.07%) Clustering
10 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.38%) State Machine
11 2 (1.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
3 7 (4.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) Low Latency
2 46 (31.72%) Agile
3 40 (27.59%) Algorithmic Trading
4 30 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.24%) Economics
6 22 (15.17%) Design Patterns
6 22 (15.17%) OO
7 21 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (14.48%) Market Making
8 20 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.10%) Multithreading
10 18 (12.41%) Test Automation
11 16 (11.03%) Customer Requirements
11 16 (11.03%) Event-Driven
12 14 (9.66%) Business Analysis
12 14 (9.66%) Software Engineering
13 13 (8.97%) Computer Science
13 13 (8.97%) Regression Testing
13 13 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (8.28%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (51.72%) Java
2 30 (20.69%) Python
3 25 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.24%) SQL
4 24 (16.55%) TypeScript
5 23 (15.86%) C#
6 19 (13.10%) C++
7 9 (6.21%) C
8 5 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.76%) Haskell
9 4 (2.76%) OCaml
9 4 (2.76%) Scala
10 3 (2.07%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) Degree
2 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.69%) CCNP
4 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.07%) MiFID
1 3 (2.07%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) Ansible
1 6 (4.14%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Kibana
3 3 (2.07%) logstash
4 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.38%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.69%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Terraform
5 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (12.41%) Oracle
2 15 (10.34%) ION Trading
3 11 (7.59%) Solace
4 9 (6.21%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.14%) Bloomberg
5 6 (4.14%) Cisco
6 5 (3.45%) Arista
7 4 (2.76%) Dell
8 3 (2.07%) F5
8 3 (2.07%) HP
8 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.07%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.07%) Tradeweb
9 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.38%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.38%) Murex
9 2 (1.38%) Sun
9 2 (1.38%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.69%) OpenLink