Electronic Trading Contracts in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 99 162
Rank change year-on-year -97 +63 +6
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 216 659 704
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.24% 2.55% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.81% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 580 626
10th Percentile £624 £538 £575
25th Percentile £750 £613 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £875 £852 £838
90th Percentile £1,100 £950 £888
England median daily rate £825 £750 £775
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London -43 15 £800 +6.67% 4
East London - 2 £850 - 2
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (5.56%) Confluence
2 7 (3.24%) SAS
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (6.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 13 (6.02%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (6.94%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.85%) RMDS
3 2 (0.93%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.93%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.46%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.72%) npm
2 10 (4.63%) Azure
3 4 (1.85%) AWS
3 4 (1.85%) Azure App Service
3 4 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (1.39%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.41%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.83%) KDB
2 20 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.24%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (21.30%) JIRA
2 30 (13.89%) TeamCity
3 25 (11.57%) Git
4 21 (9.72%) webpack
5 14 (6.48%) Moq
6 12 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.63%) NUnit
8 9 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 9 (4.17%) git-flow
9 8 (3.70%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.93%) GitLab
12 2 (0.93%) Gradle
12 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.93%) JUnit
12 2 (0.93%) Mockito
General
1 115 (53.24%) Front Office
2 82 (37.96%) Finance
3 65 (30.09%) Banking
3 65 (30.09%) Social Skills
4 55 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (19.91%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.70%) Marketing
7 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (68.06%) Developer
2 63 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 53 (24.54%) Senior
4 43 (19.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 41 (18.98%) Senior Developer
6 37 (17.13%) C# Developer
7 25 (11.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 23 (10.65%) Full Stack Developer
8 23 (10.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (9.72%) React Developer
10 20 (9.26%) Angular Developer
11 19 (8.80%) Business Analyst
12 17 (7.87%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 17 (7.87%) KDB Developer
12 17 (7.87%) UI Developer
13 16 (7.41%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 16 (7.41%) Real Time Developer
14 15 (6.94%) Analyst
15 14 (6.48%) Applications Developer
15 14 (6.48%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.63%) React
2 53 (24.54%) FIX Protocol
3 29 (13.43%) AngularJS
4 28 (12.96%) WebSockets
5 24 (11.11%) .NET
6 23 (10.65%) RxJS
7 22 (10.19%) CSS
7 22 (10.19%) REST
8 21 (9.72%) Redux
9 16 (7.41%) Middleware
9 16 (7.41%) XML
10 15 (6.94%) WPF
11 13 (6.02%) .NET Core
12 12 (5.56%) Reactive Extensions
13 11 (5.09%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.09%) RESTful
13 11 (5.09%) Spring
14 10 (4.63%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.63%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 90 (41.67%) Fixed Income
2 39 (18.06%) Derivative
3 35 (16.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (6.94%) Equities
6 14 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.63%) Algorithms
9 9 (4.17%) Data Structures
10 8 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.85%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.85%) Wiki
13 2 (0.93%) Clustering
13 2 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.46%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.35%) Unix
2 26 (12.04%) Linux
3 4 (1.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (36.57%) Agile
2 53 (24.54%) Low Latency
3 40 (18.52%) Design Patterns
4 37 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (17.13%) Software Engineering
5 36 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 35 (16.20%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (16.20%) Test Automation
7 33 (15.28%) Algorithmic Trading
7 33 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
8 32 (14.81%) TDD
9 25 (11.57%) CI/CD
9 25 (11.57%) OO
9 25 (11.57%) Risk Management
9 25 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (11.11%) Analytics
11 23 (10.65%) Computer Science
12 22 (10.19%) SDLC
13 19 (8.80%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (8.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.59%) Java
2 65 (30.09%) C#
3 53 (24.54%) TypeScript
4 48 (22.22%) SQL
5 46 (21.30%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.04%) Python
7 7 (3.24%) C++
8 5 (2.31%) Perl
9 4 (1.85%) Bicep
9 4 (1.85%) Scala
10 3 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) Bash
11 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (17.13%) Degree
2 11 (5.09%) CCNA
2 11 (5.09%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (5.09%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.09%) QA
2 8 (3.70%) Dodd-Frank
2 8 (3.70%) EMIR
2 8 (3.70%) MiFID
3 6 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.93%) Ansible
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (19.44%) ION Trading
2 17 (7.87%) Bloomberg
2 17 (7.87%) TIBCO
2 17 (7.87%) Tradeweb
3 15 (6.94%) MarketAxess
4 11 (5.09%) Cisco
4 11 (5.09%) Solace
5 5 (2.31%) Murex
6 4 (1.85%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.93%) Arista
8 2 (0.93%) BT
8 2 (0.93%) HP
8 2 (0.93%) IBM
8 2 (0.93%) Radianz
8 2 (0.93%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.93%) Reuters
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) Splunk
8 2 (0.93%) Sybase