Electronic Trading Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading 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 235 261 225
Rank change year-on-year +26 -36 +227
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 66 83 274
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.54% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.62% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 79 237
10th Percentile £600 £700 £550
25th Percentile £726 £750 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile - £1,100 £900
90th Percentile £875 £1,250 £1,055
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Electronic Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Electronic Trading
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.

Electronic Trading daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Electronic Trading daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.58%) npm
1 5 (7.58%) Yarn
2 1 (1.52%) AWS
2 1 (1.52%) Azure
2 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) KDB
1 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.52%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.52%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) JIRA
2 5 (7.58%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) webpack
General
1 37 (56.06%) Front Office
2 33 (50.00%) Banking
3 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
4 23 (34.85%) Investment Banking
5 21 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (27.27%) Finance
7 9 (13.64%) Financial Institution
8 4 (6.06%) French Language
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (66.67%) Developer
2 35 (53.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 22 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 20 (30.30%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 15 (22.73%) C# Developer
5 15 (22.73%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
5 15 (22.73%) Real Time Developer
5 15 (22.73%) Senior
6 14 (21.21%) Senior Developer
7 13 (19.70%) .NET Developer
7 13 (19.70%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (16.67%) Business Analyst
9 10 (15.15%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 9 (13.64%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 9 (13.64%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 8 (12.12%) Analyst
12 7 (10.61%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (7.58%) Front Office Developer
13 5 (7.58%) Senior UI Developer
13 5 (7.58%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) FIX Protocol
2 18 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 15 (22.73%) .NET
3 15 (22.73%) Reactive Extensions
4 7 (10.61%) React
5 5 (7.58%) CSS
5 5 (7.58%) Redux
5 5 (7.58%) RxJS
6 2 (3.03%) Kafka
7 1 (1.52%) HTML
7 1 (1.52%) HTML5
7 1 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.33%) Derivative
2 16 (24.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (19.70%) Equities
4 12 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (18.18%) Fixed Income
5 5 (7.58%) State Machine
6 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.03%) Wiki
7 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.52%) Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Unix
2 3 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Low Latency
2 21 (31.82%) Agile
2 21 (31.82%) Economics
3 16 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (24.24%) Design Patterns
3 16 (24.24%) Smart Order Routing
4 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (21.21%) Algorithmic Trading
6 13 (19.70%) OO
7 10 (15.15%) Multithreading
7 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.64%) Business Analysis
8 9 (13.64%) Manual Testing
8 9 (13.64%) Product Management
8 9 (13.64%) Quantitative Research
8 9 (13.64%) Regression Testing
8 9 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (10.61%) Order Management
10 6 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
10 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (62.12%) Java
2 20 (30.30%) SQL
3 19 (28.79%) JavaScript
3 19 (28.79%) TypeScript
4 15 (22.73%) C#
5 8 (12.12%) Python
6 1 (1.52%) Bash
6 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Ansible
1 1 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) ION Trading
1 15 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
2 5 (7.58%) Solace
3 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.52%) Google
3 1 (1.52%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.52%) Refinitiv