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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 356 277
Rank change year-on-year -56 -79 +9
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 141 198 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.51% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.60% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 170 416
10th Percentile £525 £624 £525
25th Percentile £625 £763 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £844 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +16.38% -5.84%
75th Percentile £850 £950 £850
90th Percentile £875 £1,050 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £475 -
% change year-on-year +31.58% - -

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 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -22 139 £775 -8.82% 103
England -41 139 £775 -8.15% 106
Work from Home +2 46 £850 +1.49% 43
UK excluding London +4 2 £625 +31.58% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 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 4 (2.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.71%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.71%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.80%) npm
1 11 (7.80%) Yarn
2 5 (3.55%) AWS
3 4 (2.84%) Azure
3 4 (2.84%) GitHub
3 4 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.42%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.71%) GCP
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) Multicast
2 8 (5.67%) Firewall
3 5 (3.55%) tcpdump
4 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.42%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) BGP
6 1 (0.71%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.71%) DNS
6 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.71%) OSPF
6 1 (0.71%) SSH
6 1 (0.71%) SSL
6 1 (0.71%) Unicast
6 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) KDB
2 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.42%) Big Data
4 2 (1.42%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.42%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) DB2
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (17.73%) Git
2 19 (13.48%) JIRA
3 11 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.80%) webpack
4 6 (4.26%) GCC
4 6 (4.26%) GDB
5 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.13%) Maven
6 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.71%) Babel
7 1 (0.71%) Gradle
7 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
General
1 77 (54.61%) Finance
2 60 (42.55%) Banking
3 59 (41.84%) Social Skills
4 58 (41.13%) Front Office
5 43 (30.50%) Investment Banking
6 25 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (13.48%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.26%) International Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Retail
9 3 (2.13%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (53.90%) Developer
2 29 (20.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 29 (20.57%) Java Developer
3 26 (18.44%) Senior
4 23 (16.31%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.35%) Analyst
5 16 (11.35%) C# Developer
6 15 (10.64%) Business Analyst
7 14 (9.93%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 13 (9.22%) .NET Developer
8 13 (9.22%) C# .NET Developer
8 13 (9.22%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 13 (9.22%) Real Time Developer
9 12 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.80%) UI Developer
11 10 (7.09%) Lead
11 10 (7.09%) Senior UI Developer
12 8 (5.67%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
12 8 (5.67%) Front Office Developer
12 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (22.70%) FIX Protocol
2 19 (13.48%) AngularJS
3 16 (11.35%) .NET
4 15 (10.64%) Reactive Extensions
5 14 (9.93%) Middleware
5 14 (9.93%) React
6 11 (7.80%) CSS
7 7 (4.96%) Spring
8 6 (4.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 6 (4.26%) STL
9 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.55%) RESTful
10 3 (2.13%) MyBatis
10 3 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (2.13%) Rendezvous
10 3 (2.13%) REST
10 3 (2.13%) RxJava
11 2 (1.42%) HTML
11 2 (1.42%) HTML5
11 2 (1.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 55 (39.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (21.28%) Fixed Income
3 20 (14.18%) Derivative
4 15 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.93%) Data Structures
5 14 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (7.80%) Algorithms
7 8 (5.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.55%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (3.55%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.84%) Clustering
10 4 (2.84%) Equities
10 4 (2.84%) Virtual Team
11 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.71%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 51 (36.17%) Linux
2 9 (6.38%) Unix
2 9 (6.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) CentOS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.84%) Low Latency
2 43 (30.50%) Agile
3 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.44%) Algorithmic Trading
5 22 (15.60%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.89%) Multithreading
7 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (14.18%) Software Engineering
8 19 (13.48%) OO
9 18 (12.77%) Design Patterns
9 18 (12.77%) Event-Driven
10 17 (12.06%) Computer Science
10 17 (12.06%) Economics
10 17 (12.06%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (11.35%) DevOps
11 16 (11.35%) Test Automation
12 15 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (10.64%) Market Making
13 14 (9.93%) Customer Requirements
14 12 (8.51%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.23%) Java
2 34 (24.11%) Python
3 27 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.60%) SQL
5 21 (14.89%) TypeScript
6 20 (14.18%) C#
7 17 (12.06%) C++
8 11 (7.80%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.55%) C
10 4 (2.84%) Bash
11 3 (2.13%) Go
12 1 (0.71%) Haskell
12 1 (0.71%) OCaml
12 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (17.73%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.71%) CCIE
5 1 (0.71%) CCNP
5 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (7.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (9.93%) ITRS Geneos
2 13 (9.22%) Ansible
3 7 (4.96%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.55%) Kibana
4 5 (3.55%) logstash
4 5 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.13%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.71%) WSUS
6 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (14.89%) Solace
2 16 (11.35%) ION Trading
2 16 (11.35%) Oracle
3 10 (7.09%) Atlassian
3 10 (7.09%) Bloomberg
4 5 (3.55%) TIBCO
4 5 (3.55%) Tradeweb
5 4 (2.84%) Arista
5 4 (2.84%) Cisco
5 4 (2.84%) Dell
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.84%) Refinitiv
6 3 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.13%) F5
6 3 (2.13%) HP
6 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.13%) Reuters
6 3 (2.13%) Sun
7 2 (1.42%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.42%) Murex