Electronic Trading Contracts in the UK excluding London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 395 461
Rank change year-on-year +62 +66 -
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.019% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.023% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £500 £377 -
25th Percentile £538 £409 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -
75th Percentile £675 £488 -
90th Percentile £720 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK excluding London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in the UK excluding London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK excluding London

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 £750 -
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) HBase
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Core Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase