Market Making Contract Job Trends in London

Market Maker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Market Making skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 387 396
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 +112
Contract jobs citing Market Making 16 3 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.018% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.021% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 59
10th Percentile £606 £753 -
25th Percentile £650 £794 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £875 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £897 £944 £825
90th Percentile £941 £978 £828
England median daily rate £775 £875 £750
% change year-on-year -11.43% +16.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Market Making 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 12,450 14,530 19,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.51% 89.15% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,226 9,664 14,478
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 178 230
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Market Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Market Making in London

Market Making
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Market Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Market Making

Market Making
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Making in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Making in London

Market Making
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 Market Making within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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 +3 3 £875 - 4
Market Making
England

Market Making
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 2 (12.50%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Multicast
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
1 2 (12.50%) KDB
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithm Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (12.50%) C++ Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Change Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Graduate
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 6 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (18.75%) Equities
3 3 (18.75%) Hedge funds
4 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 2 (12.50%) TWAP
4 2 (12.50%) VWAP
5 1 (6.25%) Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Derivative
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (6.25%) DTCC
5 1 (6.25%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Low Latency
2 9 (56.25%) Algorithmic Trading
3 6 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) Garbage Collection
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) OO
6 3 (18.75%) OOP
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (18.75%) Proprietary Trading
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (6.25%) EMIR
1 1 (6.25%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Refinitiv
1 1 (6.25%) Solace