Electronic Trading Developer Contracts

Electronic Trading Developer
UK

The median Electronic Trading Developer daily rate in the UK is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 559 640
Rank change year-on-year +14 +81 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 42 130 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 119 207
10th Percentile £708 £625 £725
25th Percentile £775 £700 £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £800
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £1,222 £863 £875
90th Percentile £1,250 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,794 53,311 84,183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,730 37,248 59,348
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,473 1,970
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.37
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +4 42 £850 +6.25% 7
London +12 41 £850 +6.25% 6
Work from Home +83 19 £1,250 +51.52% 3
UK excluding London - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £650 -

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Electronic Trading 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 Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 32 (76.19%) Fixed Income
3 25 (59.52%) Java
4 24 (57.14%) Front Office
5 23 (54.76%) Agile
6 20 (47.62%) Design Patterns
7 16 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (38.10%) Relational Database
8 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 14 (33.33%) Banking
8 14 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
8 14 (33.33%) JIRA
9 13 (30.95%) KDB
9 13 (30.95%) React
10 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (28.57%) TypeScript
10 12 (28.57%) Finance
10 12 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (28.57%) Investment Banking
10 12 (28.57%) Economics
11 11 (26.19%) Multithreading
11 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (26.19%) TDD
12 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
13 9 (21.43%) Refactoring
13 9 (21.43%) Cypress.io
13 9 (21.43%) Reactive Extensions
13 9 (21.43%) SQL
13 9 (21.43%) Redux
13 9 (21.43%) Algorithms

Electronic Trading 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (38.10%) Relational Database
2 13 (30.95%) KDB
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) JIRA
2 9 (21.43%) Cypress.io
3 5 (11.90%) TeamCity
4 3 (7.14%) webpack
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) Gradle
5 2 (4.76%) IntelliJ
General
1 24 (57.14%) Front Office
2 14 (33.33%) Banking
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 12 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) React
2 12 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (21.43%) Reactive Extensions
3 9 (21.43%) Redux
4 7 (16.67%) Spring
5 5 (11.90%) REST
6 4 (9.52%) WPF
7 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.14%) CSS
7 3 (7.14%) RxJS
7 3 (7.14%) WebSockets
8 2 (4.76%) JSON
8 2 (4.76%) XML
9 1 (2.38%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 32 (76.19%) Fixed Income
2 9 (21.43%) Algorithms
3 8 (19.05%) Data Structures
3 8 (19.05%) Derivative
4 7 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (7.14%) Wiki
7 2 (4.76%) Equities
7 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 23 (54.76%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) Design Patterns
4 16 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
6 12 (28.57%) Economics
7 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (26.19%) Multithreading
7 11 (26.19%) TDD
8 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
9 9 (21.43%) Refactoring
10 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 8 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (16.67%) Low Latency
11 7 (16.67%) OO
12 6 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 6 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 9 (21.43%) SQL
4 7 (16.67%) C#
5 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) ION Trading