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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 207 331
Rank change year-on-year -147 +124 0
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 237 750 727
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.25% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.39% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 652 645
10th Percentile £595 £550 £568
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 £1,009 £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 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
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 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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 26 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 26 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 -145 232 £800 +6.67% 61
London -88 228 £800 +6.67% 60
Work from Home -56 84 £850 +6.25% 11
UK excluding London +72 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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.11%) SAS
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.91%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.84%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.84%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.84%) RMDS
3 1 (0.42%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.97%) npm
2 12 (5.06%) Azure
3 5 (2.11%) AWS
4 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.27%) Yarn
6 2 (0.84%) Azure App Service
6 2 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.42%) Figma
7 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.75%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) Multicast
2 1 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.19%) KDB
2 22 (9.28%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.95%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.27%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.42%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (22.78%) JIRA
2 35 (14.77%) TeamCity
3 26 (10.97%) webpack
4 25 (10.55%) Git
5 16 (6.75%) Moq
6 14 (5.91%) Cucumber
7 12 (5.06%) NUnit
8 9 (3.80%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.95%) git-flow
10 6 (2.53%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.84%) GitLab
12 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.84%) JUnit
12 2 (0.84%) Mockito
13 1 (0.42%) Gradle
13 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
General
1 129 (54.43%) Front Office
2 84 (35.44%) Finance
3 76 (32.07%) Banking
3 76 (32.07%) Social Skills
4 65 (27.43%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (23.21%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.53%) Marketing
7 2 (0.84%) French Language
8 1 (0.42%) Back Office
8 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (64.14%) Developer
2 56 (23.63%) Java Developer
3 46 (19.41%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 44 (18.57%) Senior
5 42 (17.72%) C# Developer
6 33 (13.92%) Senior Developer
7 27 (11.39%) React Developer
8 26 (10.97%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 26 (10.97%) UI Developer
9 25 (10.55%) Full Stack Developer
10 24 (10.13%) Angular Developer
11 22 (9.28%) Business Analyst
12 20 (8.44%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 19 (8.02%) Analyst
13 19 (8.02%) Real Time Developer
14 17 (7.17%) Applications Developer
14 17 (7.17%) Web Applications Developer
15 16 (6.75%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
15 16 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
16 15 (6.33%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (30.80%) React
2 65 (27.43%) FIX Protocol
3 32 (13.50%) WebSockets
4 31 (13.08%) AngularJS
5 30 (12.66%) RxJS
6 27 (11.39%) .NET
7 26 (10.97%) REST
8 25 (10.55%) CSS
9 23 (9.70%) Redux
10 22 (9.28%) WPF
11 18 (7.59%) Middleware
12 16 (6.75%) Reactive Extensions
13 15 (6.33%) .NET Core
13 15 (6.33%) XML
14 13 (5.49%) ASP.NET
15 12 (5.06%) ASP.NET Web API
15 12 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (5.06%) RESTful
15 12 (5.06%) SignalR
16 10 (4.22%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 92 (38.82%) Fixed Income
2 40 (16.88%) Derivative
3 37 (15.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.75%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.33%) Equities
6 13 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.38%) Algorithms
8 8 (3.38%) Wiki
9 7 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.84%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.92%) Unix
2 31 (13.08%) Linux
3 7 (2.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.13%) Agile
2 54 (22.78%) Low Latency
3 46 (19.41%) Design Patterns
4 43 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (17.30%) Algorithmic Trading
6 39 (16.46%) Software Engineering
7 37 (15.61%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (15.61%) Multithreading
8 36 (15.19%) Full Stack Development
9 33 (13.92%) Test Automation
10 28 (11.81%) Economics
10 28 (11.81%) TDD
11 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
12 25 (10.55%) SDLC
12 25 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.13%) OO
13 24 (10.13%) Web Application Development
14 23 (9.70%) Risk Management
15 22 (9.28%) DevOps
16 21 (8.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 88 (37.13%) Java
2 75 (31.65%) C#
3 61 (25.74%) SQL
3 61 (25.74%) TypeScript
4 54 (22.78%) JavaScript
5 31 (13.08%) Python
6 6 (2.53%) C++
7 5 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.11%) Perl
8 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.84%) Bash
9 2 (0.84%) Bicep
9 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (15.61%) Degree
2 11 (4.64%) CCNA
2 11 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.22%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) QA
2 9 (3.80%) MiFID
3 8 (3.38%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (3.38%) EMIR
4 6 (2.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (5.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.64%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.84%) Ansible
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.42%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (14.35%) ION Trading
2 20 (8.44%) TIBCO
3 18 (7.59%) Bloomberg
4 16 (6.75%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.33%) MarketAxess
6 11 (4.64%) Cisco
7 10 (4.22%) Solace
8 7 (2.95%) Microsoft
9 5 (2.11%) Murex
10 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.27%) Google
10 3 (1.27%) Reuters
11 2 (0.84%) BT
11 2 (0.84%) HP
11 2 (0.84%) IBM
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle
11 2 (0.84%) Radianz
11 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.84%) Splunk
11 2 (0.84%) Sybase