Market Making Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Market Maker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Market Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 - 392
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Market Making 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £805 - -
25th Percentile £813 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - £525
75th Percentile £838 - £538
90th Percentile £845 - -
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £563
% change year-on-year +6.67% +33.33% -25.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,701 12,950 17,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.65% 87.28% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,596 7,620 11,036
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 747 1,225
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Market Making job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Market Making
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Market Making
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 Market Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
South East - 1 £850 - 22
Scotland - 1 £800 - 5
North of England - 1 - - 11
Market Making
UK

Market Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Trading
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Systematic Trading
2 2 (66.67%) Time Series Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Order Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MarketAxess
1 1 (33.33%) Tradeweb