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How much do commodity trading assistant jobs pay per hour?

As of Jul 24, 2026, the average hourly pay for commodity trading assistant in the United States is $48.74, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $45.67 and $52.88 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Commodity Trading Assistant position, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Commodity Trading Assistant, you need strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a foundation in finance, economics, or a related field, often supported by a bachelor's degree. Familiarity with trading platforms (like Bloomberg or Reuters), proficiency in Excel, and understanding common commodity market regulations or certifications such as Series 3 can be advantageous. Excellent communication, organization, and the ability to multitask under pressure help you excel in this support-focused, fast-paced role. These competencies are crucial for ensuring efficient trade execution, accurate reporting, and seamless coordination with traders and clients.

What does a Commodity Trading Assistant do?

A Commodity Trading Assistant supports traders by handling trade execution, documentation, market analysis, and risk management tasks. They monitor commodity prices, prepare reports, and ensure compliance with regulations. Additionally, they communicate with clients, counterparties, and internal teams to facilitate smooth trading operations. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and knowledge of financial markets are essential for this role.

What are the typical daily responsibilities of a Commodity Trading Assistant?

As a Commodity Trading Assistant, your day-to-day tasks often include preparing trade documentation, monitoring market prices, reconciling trades, and assisting traders with order entry and settlement processes. You may also coordinate with operations, risk, and compliance teams to ensure all transactions are processed smoothly and in line with regulations. Effective communication with internal stakeholders and external clients is important, as is the ability to quickly adapt to shifting priorities in a dynamic environment. You will continually develop your market knowledge while supporting the team, making this an excellent stepping stone to more senior trading roles in the future.

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Infographic showing various Commodity Trading Assistant job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 76% Full Time, 20% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 98% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 1% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $101,376 per year, or $48.7 per hour.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Trading & Supply

Engineers and Constructors International Inc

Houston, TX • On-site

$124K - $159K/yr

Contractor

Posted 27 days ago

Job description

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as an contract Sr DevOps Engineer Trading & Supply. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with a estimated start on July 3, 2026. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.
Role Overview
As DevOps Engineer , you will be a hands-on Engineer and be a member of a small high performing, team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams but also engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt. Your work will include:
  • Ensure proactive management of critical end-to-end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams
  • Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users.
  • Serve as an subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives.
  • Hands-on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way.
  • Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6) is highly desirable
  • Being part of the on-call rota working as part of a global team development engineers

Key Skills and Experience required
  • Solid track record in application deployment best practices
  • 10 years+ experience with Front Office application support and vendor management
  • Rapid incident response to maintain continuous trading operations, turning quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions
  • Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery
  • Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions.
  • Must have strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages
  • 8 years+ solid relevant FIX Engineering experience
  • Proven experience with exchange and vendor certification
  • Knowledge of Third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software vendors. (e.g., TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen)
  • Experience in messaging systems, and experience debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast, would be highly regarded.
  • [8 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms such as, Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) knowledge for DACS, ADH & ADS components]
  • [Knowledge of Multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queueing]
  • [5 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti]

What We Need From You
Required Industry Knowledge:
  • Understanding of all major global futures exchanges
  • Knowledge of full exchange-traded derivatives trade lifecycle
  • Minimum of 8 years' experience in Commodity Trading & Capital Markets / Investment Banks - to bring credible externalization of mindset and approach and ensure we are cost: value competitive
  • Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc.) and liquidity aggregation platforms.
  • [Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of Realtime Market Data distribution platforms, individual Feedhandlers and Enterprise level realtime consolidated feeds
  • [Minimum of 8 years of knowledge of timeseries analytic frameworks include kdb, shakti or similar technologies]
Soft Skills:
  • Excellent communication skills to interact with traders, developers, and stakeholders.
  • Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible with a positive attitude
  • Ability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities in a trading room environment

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