Trade Surveillance Contract Job Trends in London

Trade Surveillance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Trade Surveillance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 378 413
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 +158
Contract jobs citing Trade Surveillance 17 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.058% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.065% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £526 £456 £498
25th Percentile £580 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -8.47%
75th Percentile £806 £647 £766
90th Percentile £938 £713 £794
England median daily rate £700 £625 £688
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -6.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Trade Surveillance 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 12,723 13,926 18,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.48% 89.13% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,373 8,969 13,005
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 167 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £47.00 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.98 £80.30 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Trade Surveillance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Trade Surveillance job vacancy trend in London

Trade Surveillance
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Trade Surveillance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Trade Surveillance

Trade Surveillance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trade Surveillance in London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Trade Surveillance in London

Trade Surveillance
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 Trade Surveillance within the London region over the 6 months to 5 November 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 +5 1 £800 - 5
Trade Surveillance
England

Trade Surveillance
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Actimize
2 1 (5.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) WeChat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Investment Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Front Office
6 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Compliance Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Compliance Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Delivery Director
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Market Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (23.53%) Derivative
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
4 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) KYC
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) AI
5 2 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (11.76%) Project Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CBAP
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CFA
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) MiFID
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (5.88%) FINRA
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.88%) Calypso
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Murex
2 1 (5.88%) Refinitiv