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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 492 549
Rank change year-on-year +30 +57 +252
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ETRM 92 67 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 34 70
10th Percentile £513 £533 £525
25th Percentile £625 £616 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £884 £795 £834
90th Percentile £928 £834 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,624 33,091 45,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.32% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,411 20,916 31,099
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £402 £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 1,756 1,673 1,519
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%

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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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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ETRM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ETRM

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETRM over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETRM in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ETRM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ETRM

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Top 8 DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +38 83 £750 +7.14% 57
London +42 78 £750 +7.14% 47
Work from Home +26 21 £800 - 35
UK excluding London - 8 £523 - 33
Scotland - 3 £588 -
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
South East - 2 £469 - 33

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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 5 (5.43%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 43 (46.74%) Endur
2 2 (2.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.09%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Aligne
3 1 (1.09%) Findur
3 1 (1.09%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (1.09%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.09%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.87%) GitHub
4 6 (6.52%) AWS
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.09%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) Power BI
3 3 (3.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.17%) Big Data
4 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.17%) Metadata
4 2 (2.17%) NewSQL
4 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.17%) Tableau
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) JIRA
2 9 (9.78%) SpecFlow
3 5 (5.43%) Postman
4 4 (4.35%) JUnit
4 4 (4.35%) MSTest
4 4 (4.35%) NUnit
4 4 (4.35%) Ranorex
4 4 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.17%) Git
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Subversion
6 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (46.74%) Social Skills
2 35 (38.04%) Finance
3 24 (26.09%) Back Office
4 15 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.30%) Front Office
5 9 (9.78%) Banking
6 6 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Automotive
8 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.17%) Billing
9 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Analyst
1 28 (30.43%) Business Analyst
2 21 (22.83%) Senior
3 19 (20.65%) Developer
4 15 (16.30%) Consultant
5 14 (15.22%) Architect
6 13 (14.13%) Endur Consultant
6 13 (14.13%) OpenLink Consultant
7 9 (9.78%) Endur Architect
7 9 (9.78%) OpenLink Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Angular Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Endur Business Analyst
8 8 (8.70%) ETRM Consultant
8 8 (8.70%) Lead
8 8 (8.70%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) Endur Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) ETRM Business Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) OpenLink Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) OpenLink Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) Playwright
2 11 (11.96%) .NET
3 8 (8.70%) .NET Framework
3 8 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 8 (8.70%) Entity Framework
3 8 (8.70%) NHibernate
3 8 (8.70%) RESTful
4 4 (4.35%) JSON
5 3 (3.26%) pytest
5 3 (3.26%) React
5 3 (3.26%) Swagger
6 2 (2.17%) Prophet
6 2 (2.17%) PySpark
6 2 (2.17%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.17%) XGBoost
7 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.09%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.09%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) Pandas
7 1 (1.09%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.96%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.61%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.52%) Derivative
4 6 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.35%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.26%) Grid Computing
6 3 (3.26%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.26%) PMI
6 3 (3.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.26%) Swaptions
7 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.17%) Agile
2 47 (51.09%) Risk Management
3 21 (22.83%) Scrum
4 20 (21.74%) Business Analysis
4 20 (21.74%) DevOps
5 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.13%) Data Protection
7 13 (14.13%) Project Management
8 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.04%) Project Delivery
9 11 (11.96%) API Design
9 11 (11.96%) Data Modelling
9 11 (11.96%) Microservices
9 11 (11.96%) Use Case
10 10 (10.87%) SDLC
11 9 (9.78%) Process Improvement
11 9 (9.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) SQL
2 17 (18.48%) C#
3 14 (15.22%) Python
4 13 (14.13%) Java
5 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.26%) VB
6 3 (3.26%) VBA
7 2 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) CBAP
2 4 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.26%) IIBA
4 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) CSPO
5 1 (1.09%) ISEB
5 1 (1.09%) PMP
5 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) EMIR
3 6 (6.52%) MiFID
4 2 (2.17%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.09%) Basel III
5 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Ansible
1 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (25.00%) OpenLink
2 6 (6.52%) Databricks
2 6 (6.52%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Trayport
4 3 (3.26%) Hitachi
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.26%) SAP
4 3 (3.26%) Sybase
4 3 (3.26%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.17%) Ariba
5 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.09%) Triple Point