Electronic Trading Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Electronic Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.022% - 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% - 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - £356
75th Percentile £938 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 £775 £825
% change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,834 2,021 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.55% 88.02% 80.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 1,297 1,587
10th Percentile £306 £210 £250
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £642 £688
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 150 172
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.13 £15.25 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.35 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +15.38% -29.04%
75th Percentile £49.75 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.55 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Electronic Trading job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 2026. 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
West Midlands - 1 £875 - 1
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript