Electronic Trading Contracts in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 216 271
Rank change year-on-year -130 +55 +18
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 208 588 726
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 1.25% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.39% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 524 655
10th Percentile £623 £538 £575
25th Percentile £750 £611 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £900 £858 £838
90th Percentile £1,090 £950 £891
UK median daily rate £825 £750 £770
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.60% +14.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 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
London -92 202 £825 +10.00% 49
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
East of England - 2 £475 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £650 -
South East - 1 - -
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 11 (5.29%) Confluence
2 7 (3.37%) SAS
3 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (6.25%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.92%) RMDS
3 2 (0.96%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.48%) Actimize
4 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.21%) npm
2 10 (4.81%) Azure
3 6 (2.88%) Azure App Service
3 6 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (1.92%) AWS
5 3 (1.44%) Yarn
6 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.77%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (21.15%) KDB
2 17 (8.17%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.96%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.48%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (16.35%) JIRA
2 29 (13.94%) Git
3 24 (11.54%) TeamCity
4 15 (7.21%) webpack
5 12 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.77%) Moq
6 11 (5.29%) git-flow
7 10 (4.81%) NUnit
8 9 (4.33%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.85%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.92%) Gradle
10 4 (1.92%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.96%) GitLab
12 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.96%) JUnit
12 2 (0.96%) Mockito
12 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (49.52%) Front Office
2 75 (36.06%) Finance
3 66 (31.73%) Social Skills
4 58 (27.88%) Banking
5 45 (21.63%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (16.35%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.81%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (69.71%) Developer
2 64 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 57 (27.40%) Senior
4 46 (22.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 44 (21.15%) Senior Developer
6 37 (17.79%) C# Developer
7 23 (11.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 22 (10.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 22 (10.58%) React Developer
9 20 (9.62%) Full Stack Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 14 (6.73%) Business Analyst
11 14 (6.73%) KDB Developer
12 13 (6.25%) Analyst
12 13 (6.25%) Angular Developer
12 13 (6.25%) Real Time Developer
12 13 (6.25%) UI Developer
13 11 (5.29%) Java Quantitative Developer
13 11 (5.29%) JavaScript Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (30.29%) React
2 49 (23.56%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (14.42%) AngularJS
4 27 (12.98%) .NET
5 23 (11.06%) WebSockets
6 21 (10.10%) CSS
7 20 (9.62%) Redux
8 18 (8.65%) Middleware
9 16 (7.69%) REST
9 16 (7.69%) RxJS
9 16 (7.69%) WPF
10 13 (6.25%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.25%) XML
11 12 (5.77%) OpenFin
11 12 (5.77%) Spring
12 11 (5.29%) Jest
12 11 (5.29%) Material-UI
12 11 (5.29%) RESTful
12 11 (5.29%) Sass
12 11 (5.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (43.75%) Fixed Income
2 39 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (16.83%) Derivative
4 19 (9.13%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.25%) Equities
5 13 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (5.77%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.85%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.40%) Wiki
10 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.96%) Clustering
12 2 (0.96%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.54%) Unix
2 23 (11.06%) Linux
3 4 (1.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.10%) Agile
2 55 (26.44%) Low Latency
3 42 (20.19%) Multithreading
4 35 (16.83%) Software Engineering
5 34 (16.35%) Design Patterns
6 33 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (15.87%) Test Automation
7 32 (15.38%) TDD
8 30 (14.42%) OO
9 29 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.94%) Full Stack Development
10 28 (13.46%) Algorithmic Trading
10 28 (13.46%) CI/CD
11 25 (12.02%) SDLC
12 24 (11.54%) Computer Science
13 23 (11.06%) Analytics
14 21 (10.10%) Microservices
14 21 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (10.10%) Risk Management
15 19 (9.13%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.31%) Java
2 60 (28.85%) C#
3 47 (22.60%) TypeScript
4 41 (19.71%) JavaScript
5 37 (17.79%) SQL
6 21 (10.10%) Python
7 8 (3.85%) C++
8 5 (2.40%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.40%) Perl
9 4 (1.92%) Bicep
10 3 (1.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.96%) Bash
11 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (16.35%) Degree
2 12 (5.77%) Master's Degree
3 11 (5.29%) CCNA
3 11 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) Dodd-Frank
2 5 (2.40%) EMIR
2 5 (2.40%) MiFID
3 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Ansible
1 2 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (19.71%) ION Trading
2 18 (8.65%) TIBCO
3 14 (6.73%) Bloomberg
3 14 (6.73%) Tradeweb
4 12 (5.77%) MarketAxess
4 12 (5.77%) Solace
5 11 (5.29%) Cisco
6 6 (2.88%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Murex
8 2 (0.96%) Arista
8 2 (0.96%) BT
8 2 (0.96%) HP
8 2 (0.96%) IBM
8 2 (0.96%) Radianz
8 2 (0.96%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.96%) Reuters
8 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.96%) Splunk
8 2 (0.96%) Sybase