Hybrid/Remote Electronic Trading Contract Job Trends

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Electronic Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 258 284
Rank change year-on-year -25 +26 -58
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 35 58 108
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 103
10th Percentile £506 £534 £525
25th Percentile £700 £619 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £850 £844 £938
90th Percentile £959 £900 £1,080
UK median daily rate £763 £825 £750
% change year-on-year -7.58% +10.00% -2.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Electronic Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Electronic Trading job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Electronic Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Electronic Trading

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Electronic Trading
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) ION MarketView
2 1 (2.86%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
1 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.71%) GitHub
2 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (5.71%) npm
2 2 (5.71%) Yarn
3 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Multicast
2 3 (8.57%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (5.71%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.86%) Hazelcast
1 1 (2.86%) Looker
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.57%) Maven
2 2 (5.71%) GCC
2 2 (5.71%) GDB
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) webpack
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.86%) Gradle
3 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 20 (57.14%) Front Office
2 18 (51.43%) Banking
3 17 (48.57%) Finance
4 11 (31.43%) Investment Banking
5 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.71%) International Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Senior
3 11 (31.43%) Java Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Python Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior Python Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior Quantitative Developer
7 5 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 4 (11.43%) React Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Analyst
9 3 (8.57%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (8.57%) GUI Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Java GUI Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Senior GUI Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (20.00%) Kafka
3 4 (11.43%) React
4 3 (8.57%) Middleware
4 3 (8.57%) Redux
5 2 (5.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) Electron
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) MyBatis
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) RxJS
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) STL
5 2 (5.71%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (2.86%) .NET
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.86%) RxJava
6 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (31.43%) Equities
3 10 (28.57%) Fixed Income
4 9 (25.71%) Derivative
5 4 (11.43%) TWAP
5 4 (11.43%) VWAP
6 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (5.71%) Clustering
7 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
7 2 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 1 (2.86%) BYOD
8 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.86%) Replication
8 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (31.43%) Multithreading
4 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.71%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) Algorithmic Trading
6 8 (22.86%) Design Patterns
7 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 7 (20.00%) Garbage Collection
8 6 (17.14%) Fintech
8 6 (17.14%) OO
8 6 (17.14%) TDD
9 5 (14.29%) Agile
9 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 5 (14.29%) Smart Order Routing
10 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven
10 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.43%) UML
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) Java
3 10 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) C++
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) QA
1 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.29%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Ansible
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Kibana
5 1 (2.86%) logstash
5 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Solace
2 3 (8.57%) Bloomberg
2 3 (8.57%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.71%) Refinitiv
3 2 (5.71%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Tradeweb