Electronic Trading Contracts with Work from Home Options

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 247 414
Rank change year-on-year -13 +167 +11
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 85 241 210
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.99% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.10% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 210 178
10th Percentile £700 £550 £600
25th Percentile £750 £638 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £775
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% +19.23%
75th Percentile £1,000 £900 £838
90th Percentile £1,250 £1,063 £875
UK median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Electronic Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) RMDS
2 1 (1.18%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.06%) Azure
2 5 (5.88%) npm
3 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) KDB
1 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.18%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) JIRA
2 12 (14.12%) Git
3 10 (11.76%) git-flow
4 5 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.88%) webpack
5 4 (4.71%) Moq
5 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
5 4 (4.71%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.35%) GitLab
6 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.35%) JUnit
6 2 (2.35%) Mockito
General
1 36 (42.35%) Front Office
2 27 (31.76%) Finance
3 26 (30.59%) Banking
4 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
5 19 (22.35%) Investment Banking
6 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (10.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (67.06%) Developer
2 28 (32.94%) Java Developer
3 25 (29.41%) Senior
4 21 (24.71%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 18 (21.18%) C# Developer
6 16 (18.82%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 15 (17.65%) Senior Developer
8 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 12 (14.12%) Java Quantitative Developer
9 12 (14.12%) Quantitative Developer
10 11 (12.94%) React Developer
10 11 (12.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (11.76%) Analyst
11 10 (11.76%) JavaScript Engineer
11 10 (11.76%) UI Engineer
12 7 (8.24%) Business Analyst
13 6 (7.06%) Angular Developer
13 6 (7.06%) Real Time Developer
14 5 (5.88%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.00%) React
2 29 (34.12%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (17.65%) Redux
3 15 (17.65%) WebSockets
4 12 (14.12%) CSS
5 10 (11.76%) Jest
5 10 (11.76%) LESS
5 10 (11.76%) Material-UI
5 10 (11.76%) OpenFin
5 10 (11.76%) Sass
5 10 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
6 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.41%) RxJS
8 7 (8.24%) .NET
9 5 (5.88%) HTML
9 5 (5.88%) Reactive Extensions
9 5 (5.88%) REST
9 5 (5.88%) XML
10 4 (4.71%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 38 (44.71%) Fixed Income
2 10 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (10.59%) Derivative
4 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.88%) Equities
4 5 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.35%) Clustering
7 2 (2.35%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (2.35%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Unix
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Algorithmic Trading
2 19 (22.35%) Low Latency
3 18 (21.18%) Agile
3 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
4 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (15.29%) SDLC
5 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.12%) User Experience
6 10 (11.76%) Customer Experience
6 10 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 10 (11.76%) Post-Production
7 8 (9.41%) Multithreading
7 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
7 8 (9.41%) TDD
8 7 (8.24%) BDD
8 7 (8.24%) DevOps
9 6 (7.06%) Automated Trading
10 5 (5.88%) Clean Code
10 5 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (5.88%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) Java
2 25 (29.41%) C#
2 25 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 22 (25.88%) JavaScript
4 17 (20.00%) SQL
5 7 (8.24%) Python
6 4 (4.71%) Scala
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.35%) Perl
8 1 (1.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 8 (9.41%) CCNA
2 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Ansible
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) ION Trading
2 8 (9.41%) Cisco
3 5 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 5 (5.88%) MarketAxess
3 5 (5.88%) Tradeweb
4 3 (3.53%) Solace
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
5 2 (2.35%) Sybase