ETRM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ETRM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETRM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 306 447
Rank change year-on-year +25 +141 +169
Contract jobs citing ETRM 23 39 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.29% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 17
10th Percentile £725 £575 £593
25th Percentile £741 £606 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £800 £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.00%
75th Percentile £897 £825 £875
90th Percentile £963 £950 £885
UK median daily rate £750 £656 £750
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

ETRM 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ETRM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ETRM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ETRM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Business Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Fivetran
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JUnit
1 1 (4.35%) MSTest
1 1 (4.35%) NUnit
1 1 (4.35%) Postman
1 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Back Office
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) Endur Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Endur Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) ETRM Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) OpenLink Architect
3 6 (26.09%) OpenLink Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) OpenLink Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Endur Developer
5 4 (17.39%) ETRM Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Lead
7 2 (8.70%) Senior
8 1 (4.35%) Environment And Release Manager
8 1 (4.35%) ETRM Manager
8 1 (4.35%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Swaptions
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Risk Management
2 7 (30.43%) SDLC
3 6 (26.09%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Release Management
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.70%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (8.70%) Analytics
7 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.70%) Process Improvement
7 2 (8.70%) Scrum
7 2 (8.70%) Systematic Trading
7 2 (8.70%) Workflow
8 1 (4.35%) Data Engineering
8 1 (4.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) VB
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) OpenLink
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) Sybase
4 2 (8.70%) TIBCO