Electronic Trading Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Electronic Trading Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 321 394
Rank change year-on-year +52 +73 +190
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 35 24 83
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.16% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.17% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 73
10th Percentile £613 £850 £700
25th Percentile £788 £1,053 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £1,250 £825
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +51.52% +3.13%
75th Percentile - - £863
90th Percentile - - £975
UK median daily rate £850 £850 £800
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Electronic Trading Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Trading Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Electronic Trading Developer.

Electronic Trading Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Electronic Trading Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Electronic Trading Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Electronic Trading Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 32 (91.43%) Java
3 28 (80.00%) Low Latency
4 20 (57.14%) Front Office
5 19 (54.29%) Banking
6 18 (51.43%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (45.71%) Agile
7 16 (45.71%) Smart Order Routing
8 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
8 15 (42.86%) Design Patterns
8 15 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (42.86%) Reactive Extensions
8 15 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (42.86%) AngularJS
8 15 (42.86%) JIRA
8 15 (42.86%) C#
8 15 (42.86%) SQL
8 15 (42.86%) .NET
8 15 (42.86%) Oracle
9 14 (40.00%) Investment Banking
10 13 (37.14%) OO
11 12 (34.29%) FIX Connectivity
11 12 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
11 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
11 12 (34.29%) Economics
12 11 (31.43%) Derivative
12 11 (31.43%) Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (31.43%) Equities
13 9 (25.71%) Multithreading

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) KDB
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 20 (57.14%) Front Office
2 19 (54.29%) Banking
3 15 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 14 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (51.43%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (42.86%) .NET
2 15 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 15 (42.86%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (31.43%) Derivative
2 11 (31.43%) Equities
3 5 (14.29%) State Machine
4 1 (2.86%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 28 (80.00%) Low Latency
3 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 16 (45.71%) Smart Order Routing
4 15 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (42.86%) Design Patterns
5 13 (37.14%) OO
6 12 (34.29%) Economics
7 11 (31.43%) Algorithmic Trading
8 9 (25.71%) Multithreading
9 5 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
9 5 (14.29%) Order Management
10 3 (8.57%) Test Strategy
11 1 (2.86%) Backtesting
11 1 (2.86%) BDD
11 1 (2.86%) EAI
11 1 (2.86%) Functional Programming
11 1 (2.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (91.43%) Java
2 15 (42.86%) C#
2 15 (42.86%) SQL
3 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Oracle
2 6 (17.14%) ION Trading
3 5 (14.29%) Solace
4 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.86%) Refinitiv