Market Making Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Market Maker
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Market Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Market Making 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.047% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
South East median daily rate £850 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,848 1,733 2,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.80% 89.47% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,026 1,447
10th Percentile £268 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.50% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 47 98
10th Percentile £15.55 £23.31 £19.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £39.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +4.17% +144.82%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.22 £65.19
90th Percentile £90.45 £67.20 £73.21
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% -9.09% +46.67%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Market Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Market Making job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Market Making
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire - 1 £850 - 9
Market Making
South East

Market Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Systematic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL