Electronic Trading Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
UK

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading daily rate in the UK is £1,250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 608 695
Rank change year-on-year +42 +87 -102
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 25 111 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 100 155
10th Percentile £775 £648 £725
25th Percentile £825 £700 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,250 £800 £825
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile - £863 £875
90th Percentile - £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +24 25 £1,250 +56.25% 3
London +16 25 £1,250 +56.25% 3
Work from Home +84 17 £1,250 +51.52%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Java
1 25 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 24 (96.00%) Fixed Income
3 17 (68.00%) Banking
4 16 (64.00%) Investment Banking
4 16 (64.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 13 (52.00%) FIX Protocol
6 10 (40.00%) Multithreading
7 9 (36.00%) Agile
7 9 (36.00%) Front Office
8 8 (32.00%) Finance
8 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (24.00%) KDB
9 6 (24.00%) TDD
9 6 (24.00%) ION Trading
9 6 (24.00%) Derivative
9 6 (24.00%) OO
9 6 (24.00%) SAS
9 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (24.00%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
9 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
9 6 (24.00%) Data Structures
9 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
9 6 (24.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (20.00%) Linux

Electronic Trading Java 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) KDB
1 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.00%) Gradle
1 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (68.00%) Banking
2 16 (64.00%) Investment Banking
3 9 (36.00%) Front Office
4 8 (32.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (96.00%) Fixed Income
2 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (24.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (24.00%) Derivative
2 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 16 (64.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 10 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Critical Thinking
6 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (24.00%) OO
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Low Latency
7 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.00%) Mathematics
9 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce
9 1 (4.00%) Multithreaded Programming
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) ION Trading