Market Data Developer Contracts

Market Data Developer
UK

The median Market Data Developer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 695 843
Rank change year-on-year +114 +148 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Market Data Developer 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £739 £571
25th Percentile £350 £741 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £763 £675
Median % change year-on-year -47.54% +12.96% +8.00%
75th Percentile £450 £797 £738
90th Percentile - £806 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Market Data Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Market Data Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Market Data Developer in the UK

Market Data Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Market Data Developer.

Daily rate trend for Market Data Developer in the UK

Market Data Developer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Data Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +87 3 £400 -47.54% 1
London +83 3 £400 -47.54% 1

Market Data Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Market Data Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Market Data Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) KDB
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Front Office
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Control-M
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Unix

Market Data Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) KDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Refinitiv
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase