Electronic Trading Contracts

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 385 260
Rank change year-on-year -12 -125 +58
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 146 205 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.47% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.55% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 187 515
10th Percentile £596 £625 £532
25th Percentile £663 £750 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £850 £906 £863
90th Percentile £875 £1,093 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 -
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,300 37,213 49,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.87% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,271 23,689 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,283 2,619 1,694
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.73 £11.33
25th Percentile £17.70 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.40
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.65% +54.29%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +13 143 £775 -6.06% 625
London +1 143 £775 -6.06% 499
Work from Home +14 58 £850 - 160
UK excluding London +40 3 £600 +26.32% 227
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 10
Scotland - 1 £750 - 5

Electronic Trading
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 6 (4.11%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.85%) npm
1 10 (6.85%) Yarn
2 4 (2.74%) AWS
2 4 (2.74%) Azure
2 4 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.37%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.37%) GitHub
3 2 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.68%) GCP
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) Firewall
1 6 (4.11%) FIX Connectivity
1 6 (4.11%) Multicast
2 2 (1.37%) BGP
2 2 (1.37%) HSRP
2 2 (1.37%) IGMP
2 2 (1.37%) OSPF
2 2 (1.37%) SAN
2 2 (1.37%) VRRP
3 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.48%) KDB
2 6 (4.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.05%) Big Data
4 2 (1.37%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.37%) Redis
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.68%) DB2
5 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) HBase
5 1 (0.68%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (17.81%) Git
2 22 (15.07%) JIRA
3 10 (6.85%) webpack
4 3 (2.05%) GCC
4 3 (2.05%) GDB
4 3 (2.05%) GitLab
4 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) Babel
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 73 (50.00%) Finance
2 64 (43.84%) Banking
3 59 (40.41%) Front Office
4 53 (36.30%) Social Skills
5 51 (34.93%) Investment Banking
6 30 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (15.75%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.42%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.42%) Retail
8 5 (3.42%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.05%) International Banking
10 2 (1.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (55.48%) Developer
2 37 (25.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 32 (21.92%) Java Developer
4 30 (20.55%) Senior
5 26 (17.81%) Senior Developer
6 19 (13.01%) C# Developer
6 19 (13.01%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 18 (12.33%) Real Time Developer
8 17 (11.64%) Business Analyst
8 17 (11.64%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
9 15 (10.27%) .NET Developer
9 15 (10.27%) C# .NET Developer
10 14 (9.59%) Analyst
11 13 (8.90%) Lead
12 11 (7.53%) Front Office Developer
12 11 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (6.85%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 10 (6.85%) Front Office Business Analyst
14 9 (6.16%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (6.16%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) FIX Protocol
2 24 (16.44%) AngularJS
3 19 (13.01%) .NET
3 19 (13.01%) Reactive Extensions
4 13 (8.90%) React
5 10 (6.85%) CSS
6 7 (4.79%) Spring
7 6 (4.11%) Middleware
8 3 (2.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.05%) HTML
8 3 (2.05%) HTML5
8 3 (2.05%) Kafka
8 3 (2.05%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (2.05%) Redux
8 3 (2.05%) REST
8 3 (2.05%) RESTful
8 3 (2.05%) RxJava
8 3 (2.05%) STL
9 2 (1.37%) JSON
9 2 (1.37%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (20.55%) Derivative
3 22 (15.07%) Fixed Income
4 17 (11.64%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.22%) Algorithms
6 12 (8.22%) Data Structures
6 12 (8.22%) Equities
7 7 (4.79%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.05%) Clustering
10 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.37%) State Machine
11 2 (1.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 40 (27.40%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Unix
3 7 (4.79%) Windows
4 2 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.30%) Low Latency
2 46 (31.51%) Agile
3 38 (26.03%) Algorithmic Trading
4 31 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.12%) Economics
6 22 (15.07%) Design Patterns
6 22 (15.07%) OO
7 21 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (14.38%) Market Making
8 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.01%) Multithreading
10 18 (12.33%) Test Automation
11 16 (10.96%) Customer Requirements
12 14 (9.59%) Business Analysis
12 14 (9.59%) Computer Science
12 14 (9.59%) Event-Driven
12 14 (9.59%) Software Engineering
13 13 (8.90%) Regression Testing
13 13 (8.90%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.05%) Java
2 29 (19.86%) Python
3 26 (17.81%) JavaScript
4 25 (17.12%) SQL
4 25 (17.12%) TypeScript
5 23 (15.75%) C#
6 19 (13.01%) C++
7 9 (6.16%) C
8 5 (3.42%) Scala
9 4 (2.74%) Haskell
9 4 (2.74%) OCaml
10 3 (2.05%) Bash
10 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (16.44%) Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.68%) CCNP
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.05%) MiFID
1 3 (2.05%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Ansible
2 4 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.37%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.68%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
5 1 (0.68%) logstash
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
5 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (12.33%) Oracle
2 15 (10.27%) ION Trading
3 9 (6.16%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.16%) Solace
4 6 (4.11%) Bloomberg
4 6 (4.11%) Cisco
5 5 (3.42%) Arista
6 4 (2.74%) Dell
7 3 (2.05%) F5
7 3 (2.05%) HP
7 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.05%) Refinitiv
7 3 (2.05%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.37%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.37%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.37%) Murex
8 2 (1.37%) Sun
8 2 (1.37%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.68%) Calypso
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