Electronic Trading Developer Contract Job Trends

Electronic Trading Developer
UK

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate in the UK is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 491 574
Rank change year-on-year -41 +83 +38
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 21 72 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 60 83
10th Percentile £604 £757 £700
25th Percentile £741 £775 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £838 £825
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile - £913 £938
90th Percentile £963 £1,100 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,762 35,713 47,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 93.01% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,795 22,135 32,566
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,555 1,710 1,509
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.73 £14.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.71% +68.27%
75th Percentile £51.72 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +88.64%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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
London -33 21 £850 - 5
England -41 21 £850 +1.49% 5
Work from Home +6 11 £850 -2.86% 1

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Electronic Trading Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 15 (71.43%) Java
3 14 (66.67%) Front Office
3 14 (66.67%) Low Latency
4 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
5 11 (52.38%) Agile
5 11 (52.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (47.62%) Oracle
6 10 (47.62%) AngularJS
6 10 (47.62%) Design Patterns
6 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (42.86%) Reactive Extensions
7 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (42.86%) JIRA
7 9 (42.86%) C#
7 9 (42.86%) SQL
7 9 (42.86%) .NET
8 8 (38.10%) Linux
9 7 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (33.33%) Finance
9 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
10 6 (28.57%) Fixed Income
11 5 (23.81%) OO
11 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
11 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (19.05%) KDB
12 4 (19.05%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (19.05%) Economics
13 3 (14.29%) Banking
13 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) GitHub
1 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (4.76%) npm
1 1 (4.76%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Multicast
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) KDB
2 2 (9.52%) Kdb+
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Babel
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 14 (66.67%) Front Office
2 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
3 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (14.29%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) AngularJS
2 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) Reactive Extensions
3 4 (19.05%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (9.52%) React
5 1 (4.76%) CSS
5 1 (4.76%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) Middleware
5 1 (4.76%) Redux
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (28.57%) Fixed Income
3 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.76%) Clustering
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 14 (66.67%) Low Latency
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
4 10 (47.62%) Design Patterns
5 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
7 5 (23.81%) OO
8 4 (19.05%) Economics
9 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
9 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (9.52%) Concurrent Programming
10 2 (9.52%) DevOps
10 2 (9.52%) Market Making
10 2 (9.52%) Memory Management
10 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (9.52%) TDD
11 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
11 1 (4.76%) Front End Development
11 1 (4.76%) Garbage Collection
11 1 (4.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 9 (42.86%) C#
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
4 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Solace
3 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.76%) ION Trading
3 1 (4.76%) Refinitiv
3 1 (4.76%) Sybase
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