Spread Betting Contracts

Spread Betting
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spread Betting in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spread Betting over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 581 695
Rank change year-on-year +57 +114 +117
Contract jobs citing Spread Betting 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.005% 0.017%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.020% 0.015% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £601
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +5.88%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Spread Betting falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,948 13,193 19,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 30.39% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,351 8,470 13,586
10th Percentile £300 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £651 £659 £680
90th Percentile £775 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 911 639
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%

Spread Betting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spread Betting in the UK

Spread Betting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spread Betting in the UK

Spread Betting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Spread Betting in the UK

Spread Betting
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spread Betting within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +68 2 - - 2
London +45 2 - - 1

Spread Betting
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle