Hybrid/Remote Electronic Trading Developer Contract Job Trends

Electronic Trading Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 301 359
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +100
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 5 26 42
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.049% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 41
10th Percentile £619 £680 £700
25th Percentile £703 £763 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £825 £925
Median % change year-on-year - -10.81% +12.12%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £938
90th Percentile - £980 £1,250
UK median daily rate £850 £825 £850
% change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,485 11,381 17,528
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,212 7,148 12,283
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 201 381
10th Percentile £14.83 £19.30 £17.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.50 £25.95
Median hourly rate £41.68 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Electronic Trading Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Trading Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Electronic Trading Developer over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Electronic Trading Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Electronic Trading Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (40.00%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Market Making

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (20.00%) Multicast
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Front Office
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (40.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Equities
2 1 (20.00%) TWAP
2 1 (20.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Market Making
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Smart Order Routing
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (20.00%) Solace