ETRM Contracts

Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ETRM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETRM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 477 597
Rank change year-on-year +29 +120 +206
Contract jobs citing ETRM 72 105 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 62 69
10th Percentile £513 £503 £525
25th Percentile £608 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £656 £750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +7.14%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £863
90th Percentile £900 £909 £905
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 - £775
% change year-on-year - - +34.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETRM 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 6 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 1 May 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
England +21 64 £750 +15.38% 89
London +2 62 £750 +15.38% 87
Work from Home +25 23 £800 - 22
UK excluding London - 6 £498 - 20
Scotland - 4 £613 -
South East - 2 £469 - 20

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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 3 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (52.78%) Endur
2 1 (1.39%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) Aligne
2 1 (1.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Serverless
4 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.39%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.56%) Power BI
4 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.78%) Metadata
5 2 (2.78%) NewSQL
5 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Git
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
1 3 (4.17%) JUnit
1 3 (4.17%) MSTest
1 3 (4.17%) NUnit
1 3 (4.17%) Postman
1 3 (4.17%) Ranorex
1 3 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (1.39%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 25 (34.72%) Finance
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Back Office
3 12 (16.67%) Front Office
4 8 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Billing
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Analyst
2 17 (23.61%) Consultant
2 17 (23.61%) Endur Consultant
2 17 (23.61%) OpenLink Consultant
3 15 (20.83%) Business Analyst
4 14 (19.44%) Developer
5 12 (16.67%) Architect
6 9 (12.50%) ETRM Consultant
6 9 (12.50%) Senior
7 8 (11.11%) OpenLink Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Endur Business Analyst
8 7 (9.72%) Endur Developer
8 7 (9.72%) ETRM Developer
8 7 (9.72%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 6 (8.33%) Endur Architect
9 6 (8.33%) OpenLink Architect
10 5 (6.94%) Endur Analyst
10 5 (6.94%) OpenLink Analyst
11 4 (5.56%) Data Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) .NET
2 4 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 4 (5.56%) Blazor
2 4 (5.56%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) JSON
3 3 (4.17%) Playwright
3 3 (4.17%) REST
3 3 (4.17%) SOAP
3 3 (4.17%) WebSockets
3 3 (4.17%) XML
4 2 (2.78%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.78%) YAML
5 1 (1.39%) pytest
5 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.94%) TWAP
2 5 (6.94%) VWAP
3 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 3 (4.17%) PMI
4 3 (4.17%) Replication
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.39%) Derivative
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) PDA
6 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 21 (29.17%) Agile
3 12 (16.67%) SDLC
4 11 (15.28%) Project Delivery
5 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.89%) Use Case
6 9 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 8 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
7 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (9.72%) DevOps
8 7 (9.72%) Microservices
9 6 (8.33%) Analytics
9 6 (8.33%) Business Analysis
9 6 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.94%) Data Analysis
10 5 (6.94%) Multithreading
10 5 (6.94%) Release Management
10 5 (6.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) SQL
2 24 (33.33%) Python
3 12 (16.67%) C#
3 12 (16.67%) Java
4 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.72%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.72%) VBA
7 5 (6.94%) C++
8 4 (5.56%) Go
9 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.78%) Scala
10 2 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) CBAP
2 3 (4.17%) IIBA
2 3 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
2 2 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) OpenLink
2 9 (12.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) Databricks
4 3 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.17%) Splunk
4 3 (4.17%) Trayport
5 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.78%) Sybase
5 2 (2.78%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.39%) ION Trading