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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 229 330
Rank change year-on-year -124 +101 -10
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 232 715 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 1.21% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.35% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 627 656
10th Percentile £585 £550 £575
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 £838
90th Percentile £1,043 £950 £888
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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 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 6 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 -140 227 £800 +6.67% 73
London -91 223 £810 +8.00% 71
Work from Home -23 83 £850 +6.25% 17
UK excluding London +62 4 £475 - 2
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 (6.03%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) SAS
3 6 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.60%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.03%) ION MarketView
2 3 (1.29%) RMDS
3 2 (0.86%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.86%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.43%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.34%) npm
2 11 (4.74%) Azure
3 5 (2.16%) AWS
4 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.29%) Azure App Service
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (1.29%) Yarn
6 1 (0.43%) Figma
6 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.90%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.67%) KDB
2 23 (9.91%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.02%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.86%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.43%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (22.41%) JIRA
2 35 (15.09%) TeamCity
3 26 (11.21%) Git
4 24 (10.34%) webpack
5 16 (6.90%) Moq
6 14 (6.03%) Cucumber
7 12 (5.17%) NUnit
8 9 (3.88%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.45%) git-flow
10 7 (3.02%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.86%) GitLab
13 2 (0.86%) Gradle
13 2 (0.86%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
13 2 (0.86%) JUnit
13 2 (0.86%) Mockito
General
1 125 (53.88%) Front Office
2 84 (36.21%) Finance
3 72 (31.03%) Banking
3 72 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 62 (26.72%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (21.55%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.02%) Marketing
7 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.43%) French Language
7 1 (0.43%) Legal
7 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (65.52%) Developer
2 60 (25.86%) Java Developer
3 46 (19.83%) Senior
4 44 (18.97%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 42 (18.10%) C# Developer
6 35 (15.09%) Senior Developer
7 26 (11.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 26 (11.21%) Full Stack Developer
7 26 (11.21%) React Developer
8 23 (9.91%) Angular Developer
9 22 (9.48%) Business Analyst
10 21 (9.05%) UI Developer
11 20 (8.62%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 19 (8.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 18 (7.76%) Analyst
13 18 (7.76%) Real Time Developer
14 16 (6.90%) Applications Developer
14 16 (6.90%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
14 16 (6.90%) Web Applications Developer
15 15 (6.47%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.03%) React
2 61 (26.29%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (12.93%) AngularJS
3 30 (12.93%) WebSockets
4 26 (11.21%) .NET
4 26 (11.21%) RxJS
5 25 (10.78%) CSS
5 25 (10.78%) REST
6 23 (9.91%) Redux
7 21 (9.05%) WPF
8 18 (7.76%) Middleware
9 16 (6.90%) XML
10 15 (6.47%) .NET Core
10 15 (6.47%) Reactive Extensions
11 13 (5.60%) ASP.NET
12 12 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (5.17%) RESTful
12 12 (5.17%) SignalR
13 10 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 91 (39.22%) Fixed Income
2 42 (18.10%) Derivative
3 38 (16.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (6.03%) Equities
6 10 (4.31%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.88%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.02%) Wiki
9 4 (1.72%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.86%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.79%) Unix
2 30 (12.93%) Linux
3 5 (2.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.93%) Agile
2 55 (23.71%) Low Latency
3 46 (19.83%) Design Patterns
4 41 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (16.81%) Continuous Integration
5 39 (16.81%) Software Engineering
6 38 (16.38%) Algorithmic Trading
7 37 (15.95%) Full Stack Development
7 37 (15.95%) Multithreading
8 36 (15.52%) Test Automation
9 32 (13.79%) TDD
10 28 (12.07%) CI/CD
11 27 (11.64%) OO
12 25 (10.78%) Economics
12 25 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.34%) Risk Management
13 24 (10.34%) SDLC
14 22 (9.48%) Analytics
14 22 (9.48%) Computer Science
15 21 (9.05%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (39.66%) Java
2 73 (31.47%) C#
3 58 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 56 (24.14%) SQL
5 49 (21.12%) JavaScript
6 30 (12.93%) Python
7 7 (3.02%) C++
8 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.16%) Perl
9 3 (1.29%) Bicep
9 3 (1.29%) Scala
10 2 (0.86%) Bash
10 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (16.38%) Degree
2 11 (4.74%) CCNA
2 11 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.31%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.74%) QA
2 8 (3.45%) Dodd-Frank
2 8 (3.45%) EMIR
2 8 (3.45%) MiFID
3 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (6.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.86%) Ansible
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (16.38%) ION Trading
2 19 (8.19%) TIBCO
3 17 (7.33%) Bloomberg
4 16 (6.90%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.47%) MarketAxess
6 11 (4.74%) Cisco
6 11 (4.74%) Solace
7 7 (3.02%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.16%) Murex
9 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.86%) BT
10 2 (0.86%) Google
10 2 (0.86%) HP
10 2 (0.86%) IBM
10 2 (0.86%) Oracle
10 2 (0.86%) Radianz
10 2 (0.86%) Reuters
10 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.86%) Splunk
10 2 (0.86%) Sybase