Tradeweb Contract Job Trends

Tradeweb
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Tradeweb products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tradeweb over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Tradeweb Markets LLC.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 549 564
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +210
Contract jobs citing Tradeweb 16 4 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.012% 0.060%
As % of the Vendors category 0.092% 0.026% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 23
10th Percentile £362 £584 £463
25th Percentile £583 £673 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £820 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £900 - £844
90th Percentile £975 - £869
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Tradeweb falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,448 15,534 19,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.17% 45.76% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 9,264 12,334
10th Percentile £294 £285 £250
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 458 653
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.58 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.02 £19.09 £19.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%
75th Percentile £44.63 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.86 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.93% -43.63% +103.91%

Tradeweb
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tradeweb relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Tradeweb job vacancy trend in the UK

Tradeweb
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Tradeweb
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tradeweb over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tradeweb in the UK

Tradeweb
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Tradeweb
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tradeweb within the UK over the 6 months to 24 December 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 -14 16 £684 -16.62%
London 0 15 £684 -16.62%
Work from Home - 3 £380 -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Tradeweb
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) BondVision
1 2 (12.50%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) KDB
1 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 7 (43.75%) Front Office
3 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Junior
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) QA Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Fixed Income
2 6 (37.50%) Derivative
3 4 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (6.25%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 7 (43.75%) Low Latency
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Functional Programming
6 3 (18.75%) Multithreaded Programming
6 3 (18.75%) OO
6 3 (18.75%) OOD
6 3 (18.75%) SOLID
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Release Management
7 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (12.50%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Bloomberg
2 10 (62.50%) ION Trading
3 6 (37.50%) MarketAxess
4 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 2 (12.50%) Murex
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Reuters
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft