Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ETRM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ETRM over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 812 876
Rank change year-on-year +141 +64 +277
Permanent jobs citing ETRM 29 90 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.091% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 33
10th Percentile £63,750 £86,250 £78,750
25th Percentile £103,438 £96,563 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £112,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +18.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £163,125 £119,688 £120,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £137,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETRM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETRM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETRM in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ETRM.

Salary trend for ETRM in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETRM over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ETRM in the UK

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Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETRM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 28 £120,000 +7.87% 67
London +79 27 £120,000 +7.87% 65
Work from Home +122 6 £106,250 -12.37% 21
UK excluding London +146 1 £70,500 - 22
South East - 1 £70,500 - 21

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (68.97%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Smartsheet
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Crucible
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Back Office
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Front Office
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Head of Architecture
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) ETRM Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Endur Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) OpenLink Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) ETRM Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) ETRM Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) ETRM Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) OpenLink Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) OpenLink Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Kafka
2 7 (24.14%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.34%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) JMS
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) Swagger
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (13.79%) Swaptions
3 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) Derivative
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.90%) PMI
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) SDLC
2 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
3 7 (24.14%) Risk Management
3 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.79%) IT Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.79%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (13.79%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
8 2 (6.90%) Change Management
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security
8 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
8 2 (6.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) VB
4 3 (10.34%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CBAP
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) IIBA
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) OpenLink
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) Sybase
4 4 (13.79%) TIBCO
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) FIS