Electronic Trading Contracts in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 190 267
Rank change year-on-year -129 +77 +6
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 218 673 723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 1.39% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.54% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 594 644
10th Percentile £601 £538 £575
25th Percentile £734 £613 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £750 £773
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £838
90th Percentile £1,100 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -92 214 £825 +10.00% 69
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
East of England - 2 £475 -
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (6.42%) Confluence
2 7 (3.21%) SAS
3 6 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (6.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (6.88%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.83%) RMDS
3 2 (0.92%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.92%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.46%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.63%) npm
2 10 (4.59%) Azure
3 4 (1.83%) AWS
3 4 (1.83%) Azure App Service
3 4 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (1.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.64%) KDB
2 19 (8.72%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.21%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (20.64%) JIRA
2 29 (13.30%) TeamCity
3 25 (11.47%) Git
4 21 (9.63%) webpack
5 14 (6.42%) Moq
6 12 (5.50%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.59%) NUnit
8 9 (4.13%) Cypress.io
8 9 (4.13%) git-flow
9 8 (3.67%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.92%) GitLab
12 2 (0.92%) Gradle
12 2 (0.92%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.92%) JUnit
12 2 (0.92%) Mockito
General
1 115 (52.75%) Front Office
2 81 (37.16%) Finance
3 66 (30.28%) Social Skills
4 64 (29.36%) Banking
5 54 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (18.81%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (67.89%) Developer
2 64 (29.36%) Java Developer
3 53 (24.31%) Senior
4 43 (19.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 42 (19.27%) Senior Developer
6 37 (16.97%) C# Developer
7 25 (11.47%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 24 (11.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (10.55%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (9.63%) Business Analyst
10 21 (9.63%) React Developer
11 20 (9.17%) Angular Developer
12 17 (7.80%) Analyst
12 17 (7.80%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 17 (7.80%) KDB Developer
12 17 (7.80%) UI Developer
13 16 (7.34%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 16 (7.34%) Real Time Developer
14 14 (6.42%) Applications Developer
14 14 (6.42%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.90%) React
2 55 (25.23%) FIX Protocol
3 29 (13.30%) AngularJS
4 28 (12.84%) WebSockets
5 24 (11.01%) .NET
6 23 (10.55%) RxJS
7 22 (10.09%) REST
8 21 (9.63%) CSS
9 20 (9.17%) Redux
10 16 (7.34%) Middleware
10 16 (7.34%) XML
11 14 (6.42%) WPF
12 13 (5.96%) .NET Core
13 11 (5.05%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.05%) Reactive Extensions
13 11 (5.05%) RESTful
13 11 (5.05%) Spring
14 10 (4.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.59%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 90 (41.28%) Fixed Income
2 39 (17.89%) Derivative
3 38 (17.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (7.80%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (6.42%) Equities
5 14 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.59%) Algorithms
8 9 (4.13%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.75%) Wiki
12 4 (1.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.92%) Clustering
13 2 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.22%) Unix
2 25 (11.47%) Linux
3 4 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.16%) Agile
2 54 (24.77%) Low Latency
3 39 (17.89%) Design Patterns
4 37 (16.97%) Multithreading
4 37 (16.97%) Software Engineering
5 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (16.06%) Test Automation
7 34 (15.60%) Algorithmic Trading
7 34 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
9 31 (14.22%) TDD
10 25 (11.47%) CI/CD
10 25 (11.47%) OO
10 25 (11.47%) Risk Management
11 24 (11.01%) Analytics
11 24 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.55%) Computer Science
13 22 (10.09%) SDLC
14 19 (8.72%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (8.72%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.20%) Java
2 64 (29.36%) C#
3 52 (23.85%) TypeScript
4 48 (22.02%) SQL
5 46 (21.10%) JavaScript
6 25 (11.47%) Python
7 7 (3.21%) C++
8 5 (2.29%) Perl
9 4 (1.83%) Bicep
9 4 (1.83%) Scala
10 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) Bash
11 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (17.89%) Degree
2 11 (5.05%) CCNA
2 11 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (5.05%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 8 (3.67%) Dodd-Frank
2 8 (3.67%) EMIR
2 8 (3.67%) MiFID
3 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (2.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.92%) Ansible
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (19.27%) ION Trading
2 17 (7.80%) Bloomberg
2 17 (7.80%) TIBCO
2 17 (7.80%) Tradeweb
3 15 (6.88%) MarketAxess
4 11 (5.05%) Cisco
4 11 (5.05%) Solace
5 6 (2.75%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.83%) Murex
7 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.92%) Arista
8 2 (0.92%) BT
8 2 (0.92%) HP
8 2 (0.92%) IBM
8 2 (0.92%) Radianz
8 2 (0.92%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.92%) Reuters
8 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.92%) Splunk
8 2 (0.92%) Sybase