Electronic Trading Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
UK

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading daily rate in the UK is £703, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 555 601
Rank change year-on-year +59 +46 +98
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 24 27 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.062% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.067% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 104
10th Percentile £583 £775 £650
25th Percentile £600 £825 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £703 £1,250 £800
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £834 - £863
90th Percentile £900 - £950
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
England +53 23 £703 -43.80% 4
London +34 23 £703 -43.80% 4
Work from Home +42 20 £703 -43.80% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 21 (87.50%) Low Latency
3 20 (83.33%) Banking
4 19 (79.17%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (66.67%) Smart Order Routing
6 14 (58.33%) Investment Banking
7 13 (54.17%) Equities
8 12 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
8 12 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
9 11 (45.83%) Derivative
9 11 (45.83%) Multithreading
10 7 (29.17%) Front Office
10 7 (29.17%) ION Trading
11 5 (20.83%) State Machine
11 5 (20.83%) Solace
11 5 (20.83%) Concurrent Programming
11 5 (20.83%) Order Management
12 4 (16.67%) KDB
12 4 (16.67%) Agile
13 3 (12.50%) Finance
13 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
13 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (12.50%) QA
13 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
13 3 (12.50%) Test Strategy
14 2 (8.33%) SDLC
14 2 (8.33%) HTML5
14 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
14 2 (8.33%) HTML

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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) KDB
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Gradle
1 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (83.33%) Banking
2 14 (58.33%) Investment Banking
3 7 (29.17%) Front Office
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Equities
2 11 (45.83%) Derivative
3 5 (20.83%) State Machine
4 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.17%) Clustering
6 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 21 (87.50%) Low Latency
3 16 (66.67%) Smart Order Routing
4 12 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 11 (45.83%) Multithreading
6 5 (20.83%) Concurrent Programming
6 5 (20.83%) Order Management
7 4 (16.67%) Agile
8 3 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (8.33%) OO
9 2 (8.33%) SDLC
9 2 (8.33%) TDD
10 1 (4.17%) Clean Code
10 1 (4.17%) Design Patterns
10 1 (4.17%) EAI
10 1 (4.17%) E-Commerce
10 1 (4.17%) Multithreaded Programming
10 1 (4.17%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) ION Trading
2 5 (20.83%) Solace
3 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.17%) Refinitiv
4 1 (4.17%) Tradeweb