Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ETRM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETRM 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 496 596 795
Rank change year-on-year +100 +199 -157
Contract jobs citing ETRM 102 123 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 70 39
10th Percentile £500 £525 £543
25th Percentile £575 £603 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £763 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +8.93% +1.82%
75th Percentile £800 £863 £750
90th Percentile £913 £903 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate - £775 £578
% change year-on-year - +34.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £34.14
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETRM 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ETRM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ETRM in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETRM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ETRM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ETRM in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETRM 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 +111 98 £650 -13.33% 24
London +101 96 £650 -13.33% 24
Work from Home +139 38 £775 -3.13% 18

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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 13 (12.75%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.96%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 49 (48.04%) Endur
2 26 (25.49%) Aligne
3 13 (12.75%) EuroRunner
4 3 (2.94%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.98%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.53%) Azure
2 15 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 14 (13.73%) AWS
4 7 (6.86%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.92%) Serverless
7 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) Power BI
2 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.96%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) SpecFlow
2 3 (2.94%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.96%) FitNesse
3 2 (1.96%) JIRA
3 2 (1.96%) Pylint
3 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.98%) Selenium
4 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 36 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (24.51%) Finance
4 24 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (15.69%) Front Office
6 15 (14.71%) Back Office
7 2 (1.96%) Banking
7 2 (1.96%) German Language
8 1 (0.98%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (54.90%) Analyst
2 54 (52.94%) Business Analyst
3 12 (11.76%) ETRM Business Analyst
4 9 (8.82%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Endur Business Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) OpenLink Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) OpenLink Support
6 6 (5.88%) Senior
7 5 (4.90%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Energy Trading Business Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.92%) Commodities Business Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Consultant
8 4 (3.92%) Endur Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) ETRM Specialist
8 4 (3.92%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.94%) QA Tester
9 3 (2.94%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) HTML
1 5 (4.90%) XML
2 4 (3.92%) .NET
3 3 (2.94%) JSON
3 3 (2.94%) Kafka
3 3 (2.94%) Middleware
4 2 (1.96%) ADO
4 2 (1.96%) IDoc
4 2 (1.96%) pytest
4 2 (1.96%) React
4 2 (1.96%) WebSockets
5 1 (0.98%) WCF
5 1 (0.98%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
1 17 (16.67%) Solar Panel
2 11 (10.78%) Market Risk
3 10 (9.80%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.98%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.27%) Agile
2 28 (27.45%) Business Analysis
3 25 (24.51%) Data Analysis
4 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.63%) Risk Management
6 17 (16.67%) Use Case
7 16 (15.69%) Project Delivery
7 16 (15.69%) Test Strategy
8 15 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (13.73%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (13.73%) Business Strategy
10 13 (12.75%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (9.80%) Process Improvement
12 10 (9.80%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.82%) Analytics
13 9 (8.82%) DevOps
13 9 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (7.84%) CI/CD
14 8 (7.84%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.29%) SQL
2 15 (14.71%) C#
3 3 (2.94%) ABAP
3 3 (2.94%) C
3 3 (2.94%) Python
4 2 (1.96%) Java
4 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (0.98%) CBAP
2 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) OpenLink
1 16 (15.69%) Oracle
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) SAP
4 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.94%) Triple Point
5 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.96%) Splunk
5 2 (1.96%) Trayport
5 2 (1.96%) webMethods
6 1 (0.98%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.98%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.98%) Reuters