Electronic Trading Contracts

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 373 355 217
Rank change year-on-year -18 -138 +112
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 150 234 745
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.54% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.62% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 217 651
10th Percentile £528 £590 £550
25th Percentile £658 £725 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £875 £1,017 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 -
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 6 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 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 -17 146 £750 -6.25% 119
London -25 146 £750 -6.25% 111
Work from Home +24 66 £850 - 33
UK excluding London +62 3 £600 +26.32% 32
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 £750 -

Electronic Trading
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 5 (3.33%) Confluence
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.00%) npm
1 12 (8.00%) Yarn
2 4 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.00%) AWS
3 3 (2.00%) Azure
4 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.67%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (4.67%) Firewall
3 3 (2.00%) DNS
3 3 (2.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.33%) BGP
4 2 (1.33%) DHCP
4 2 (1.33%) HSRP
4 2 (1.33%) IGMP
4 2 (1.33%) Multicast
4 2 (1.33%) OSPF
4 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.33%) VRRP
5 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) KDB
2 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.00%) Kdb+
4 2 (1.33%) Big Data
4 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.67%) DB2
5 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.67%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.67%) HBase
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (19.33%) Git
2 19 (12.67%) JIRA
3 12 (8.00%) webpack
4 3 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.67%) Gradle
6 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (50.67%) Finance
2 72 (48.00%) Banking
3 53 (35.33%) Front Office
4 51 (34.00%) Investment Banking
5 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 32 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (17.33%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.33%) French Language
8 5 (3.33%) Retail
8 5 (3.33%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (53.33%) Developer
2 39 (26.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 36 (24.00%) Senior
4 34 (22.67%) Java Developer
5 29 (19.33%) Senior Developer
6 24 (16.00%) Analyst
6 24 (16.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 19 (12.67%) Business Analyst
7 19 (12.67%) C# Developer
8 16 (10.67%) Real Time Developer
9 15 (10.00%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
10 13 (8.67%) .NET Developer
10 13 (8.67%) C# .NET Developer
11 12 (8.00%) Lead
11 12 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (8.00%) UI Developer
12 11 (7.33%) Senior UI Developer
13 10 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 10 (6.67%) Front Office Business Analyst
13 10 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.67%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (14.67%) AngularJS
3 18 (12.00%) .NET
4 17 (11.33%) Reactive Extensions
5 16 (10.67%) React
6 12 (8.00%) CSS
7 8 (5.33%) Spring
8 5 (3.33%) Redux
8 5 (3.33%) RxJS
9 4 (2.67%) HTML
9 4 (2.67%) HTML5
10 3 (2.00%) FpML
10 3 (2.00%) Kafka
10 3 (2.00%) RxJava
11 2 (1.33%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.33%) J2SE
11 2 (1.33%) Middleware
11 2 (1.33%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (1.33%) REST
11 2 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.67%) Derivative
2 39 (26.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (12.67%) Equities
4 17 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (11.33%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (10.67%) Fixed Income
6 12 (8.00%) Data Structures
7 10 (6.67%) Algorithms
8 8 (5.33%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.33%) State Machine
10 4 (2.67%) Virtual Team
11 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
11 3 (2.00%) Eurex
11 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.00%) Wiki
12 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.67%) Linux
2 14 (9.33%) Unix
3 5 (3.33%) CentOS
4 4 (2.67%) Windows
5 2 (1.33%) Rocky
6 1 (0.67%) Debian
6 1 (0.67%) Fedora
6 1 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.67%) SUSE
6 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.33%) Agile
1 47 (31.33%) Low Latency
2 40 (26.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 36 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (16.67%) Economics
5 22 (14.67%) Market Making
6 20 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 20 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (13.33%) Design Patterns
6 20 (13.33%) OO
7 19 (12.67%) Customer Requirements
8 17 (11.33%) Event-Driven
9 16 (10.67%) Business Analysis
9 16 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (10.67%) Multithreading
9 16 (10.67%) Smart Order Routing
10 15 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 14 (9.33%) Web Development
12 13 (8.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.00%) Java
2 35 (23.33%) Python
3 31 (20.67%) SQL
4 28 (18.67%) TypeScript
5 26 (17.33%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.00%) C#
7 18 (12.00%) C++
8 14 (9.33%) C
9 6 (4.00%) Bash
10 5 (3.33%) Scala
11 4 (2.67%) Haskell
11 4 (2.67%) OCaml
12 3 (2.00%) Perl
13 1 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Degree
2 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.67%) CCNP
4 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.67%) Ansible
3 3 (2.00%) Rundeck
4 2 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) ION Trading
2 17 (11.33%) Oracle
3 12 (8.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.00%) Solace
5 5 (3.33%) Arista
5 5 (3.33%) Bloomberg
5 5 (3.33%) Cisco
5 5 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.00%) CQG
6 3 (2.00%) Dell
6 3 (2.00%) F5
6 3 (2.00%) Patsystems
6 3 (2.00%) Reuters
6 3 (2.00%) Trayport
7 2 (1.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.33%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.33%) HP
7 2 (1.33%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.67%) OpenLink