Electronic Trading Contracts

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 217 331
Rank change year-on-year -155 +114 -4
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 234 741 731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.24% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.38% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 648 649
10th Percentile £590 £550 £573
25th Percentile £725 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £825
90th Percentile £1,017 £950 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 2024.

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 7 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 27 April 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 -130 229 £800 +6.67% 60
London -91 225 £800 +6.67% 59
Work from Home -40 83 £850 +6.25% 11
UK excluding London +68 4 £475 - 1
East of England - 2 £475 -
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1

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 14 (5.98%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.14%) SAS
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.98%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.85%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.85%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.85%) RMDS
3 1 (0.43%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.68%) npm
2 12 (5.13%) Azure
3 5 (2.14%) AWS
4 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.28%) Yarn
6 2 (0.85%) Azure App Service
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) Figma
7 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.84%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.38%) KDB
2 22 (9.40%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.84%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.99%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.28%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.43%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (22.22%) JIRA
2 35 (14.96%) TeamCity
3 25 (10.68%) Git
3 25 (10.68%) webpack
4 16 (6.84%) Moq
5 14 (5.98%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.13%) NUnit
7 9 (3.85%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.99%) git-flow
9 6 (2.56%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.71%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.85%) GitLab
11 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.85%) JUnit
11 2 (0.85%) Mockito
12 1 (0.43%) Gradle
12 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
General
1 126 (53.85%) Front Office
2 83 (35.47%) Finance
3 75 (32.05%) Banking
4 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
5 64 (27.35%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (23.08%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.56%) Marketing
8 2 (0.85%) French Language
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (63.68%) Developer
2 56 (23.93%) Java Developer
3 45 (19.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 42 (17.95%) C# Developer
4 42 (17.95%) Senior
5 31 (13.25%) Senior Developer
6 27 (11.54%) React Developer
7 26 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 25 (10.68%) Full Stack Developer
9 23 (9.83%) Angular Developer
9 23 (9.83%) UI Developer
10 22 (9.40%) Business Analyst
11 20 (8.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 19 (8.12%) Analyst
12 19 (8.12%) Real Time Developer
13 17 (7.26%) Applications Developer
13 17 (7.26%) Web Applications Developer
14 16 (6.84%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
14 16 (6.84%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (6.41%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (30.77%) React
2 65 (27.78%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (12.82%) WebSockets
4 28 (11.97%) AngularJS
5 27 (11.54%) .NET
5 27 (11.54%) RxJS
6 25 (10.68%) CSS
6 25 (10.68%) REST
7 23 (9.83%) Redux
8 22 (9.40%) WPF
9 18 (7.69%) Middleware
10 16 (6.84%) Reactive Extensions
11 15 (6.41%) .NET Core
11 15 (6.41%) XML
12 13 (5.56%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (5.13%) RESTful
13 12 (5.13%) SignalR
14 10 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (38.46%) Fixed Income
2 40 (17.09%) Derivative
3 37 (15.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.41%) Equities
6 13 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.42%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.99%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.99%) Wiki
10 6 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.85%) Clustering
13 2 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.10%) Unix
2 31 (13.25%) Linux
3 7 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.18%) Agile
2 54 (23.08%) Low Latency
3 45 (19.23%) Design Patterns
4 42 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (17.52%) Algorithmic Trading
6 38 (16.24%) Software Engineering
7 37 (15.81%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (15.81%) Multithreading
8 36 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
9 33 (14.10%) Test Automation
10 28 (11.97%) TDD
11 27 (11.54%) Economics
12 26 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 25 (10.68%) SDLC
13 25 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (10.26%) OO
15 23 (9.83%) Risk Management
16 22 (9.40%) Web Application Development
17 21 (8.97%) Analytics
18 20 (8.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (37.61%) Java
2 75 (32.05%) C#
3 61 (26.07%) SQL
4 58 (24.79%) TypeScript
5 51 (21.79%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.25%) Python
7 6 (2.56%) C++
8 5 (2.14%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.14%) Perl
9 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) Bicep
10 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (15.81%) Degree
2 11 (4.70%) CCNA
2 11 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.27%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) QA
2 9 (3.85%) MiFID
3 8 (3.42%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (3.42%) EMIR
4 6 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (5.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.70%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.85%) Ansible
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.43%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (14.53%) ION Trading
2 20 (8.55%) TIBCO
3 18 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 16 (6.84%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.41%) MarketAxess
6 11 (4.70%) Cisco
7 10 (4.27%) Solace
8 7 (2.99%) Microsoft
9 5 (2.14%) Murex
10 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.28%) Google
10 3 (1.28%) Reuters
11 2 (0.85%) BT
11 2 (0.85%) HP
11 2 (0.85%) IBM
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle
11 2 (0.85%) Radianz
11 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.85%) Splunk
11 2 (0.85%) Sybase