Electronic Trading Contracts with Work from Home Options

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 29 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 278 362
Rank change year-on-year +12 +84 +75
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 80 190 276
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.80% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.89% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 168 244
10th Percentile £725 £525 £566
25th Percentile £753 £600 £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% +19.23%
75th Percentile £1,000 £925 £838
90th Percentile £1,250 £1,063 £888
UK median daily rate £825 £750 £775
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,711 21,334 40,215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.22% 89.56% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,550 15,072 29,311
10th Percentile £325 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.41% +6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 507 523
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.50 £15.01
25th Percentile £24.56 £25.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +25.00% +78.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.93 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +15.56%

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 29 June 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) RMDS
2 1 (1.25%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.25%) npm
2 2 (2.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) KDB
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Git
2 12 (15.00%) git-flow
2 12 (15.00%) JIRA
3 5 (6.25%) webpack
4 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.75%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.50%) GitLab
6 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Mockito
General
1 33 (41.25%) Front Office
2 26 (32.50%) Finance
3 23 (28.75%) Banking
4 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
5 16 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (13.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (61.25%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) Senior
3 25 (31.25%) Java Developer
4 18 (22.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 16 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 13 (16.25%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 12 (15.00%) C# Developer
7 12 (15.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 12 (15.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 12 (15.00%) UI Engineer
8 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 11 (13.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (12.50%) Analyst
9 10 (12.50%) Java Quantitative Developer
9 10 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (10.00%) React Developer
11 7 (8.75%) Business Analyst
12 6 (7.50%) Angular Developer
13 5 (6.25%) C# Web Application Developer
13 5 (6.25%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (42.50%) React
2 28 (35.00%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (21.25%) WebSockets
4 15 (18.75%) Redux
5 14 (17.50%) CSS
6 12 (15.00%) Jest
6 12 (15.00%) LESS
6 12 (15.00%) Material-UI
6 12 (15.00%) OpenFin
6 12 (15.00%) Sass
6 12 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.00%) RxJS
9 5 (6.25%) HTML
9 5 (6.25%) REST
9 5 (6.25%) WPF
9 5 (6.25%) XML
10 4 (5.00%) HTML5
11 3 (3.75%) Reactive Extensions
11 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.25%) Fixed Income
2 12 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.50%) Derivative
3 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.25%) Equities
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Algorithmic Trading
2 20 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 20 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 15 (18.75%) SDLC
4 14 (17.50%) Agile
5 13 (16.25%) User Experience
6 12 (15.00%) Customer Experience
6 12 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
6 12 (15.00%) Post-Production
7 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 7 (8.75%) Multithreading
9 7 (8.75%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.50%) Automated Trading
11 5 (6.25%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.25%) Web Application Development
11 5 (6.25%) Web Development
12 4 (5.00%) Business Analysis
12 4 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (47.50%) Java
2 24 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 18 (22.50%) C#
4 10 (12.50%) SQL
5 5 (6.25%) Python
6 3 (3.75%) Scala
7 2 (2.50%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.50%) Perl
8 1 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) CCNA
2 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Ansible
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) ION Trading
2 8 (10.00%) Cisco
3 5 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 5 (6.25%) MarketAxess
3 5 (6.25%) Tradeweb
4 3 (3.75%) Solace
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) Sybase