The rarest BA on a trading project speaks both trader and developer.
A senior ETRM business analyst in London earns £90k to £110k, or £750 to £900 a day on contract. You know the method. I teach the trading side.
See the planIndicative pay, 2026. Sources: IT Jobs Watch (six months to 6 October 2026), Robert Walters and Morgan McKinley 2026, and job ads.
Your week
A trader wants a new product booked by Friday.
The other side's confirmation does not match your booking.
The reporting deadline dropped from a month to ten working days.
What to learn
The career guide's four stages: learn the desk, follow the trade, know the rulebook, own a change.
Standard
Energy Trading Fundamentals
How energy markets work, from the power station up.
- How power is generated and priced: the merit order and the marginal plant.
- Gas: LNG, storage, NBP and TTF. The spark spread.
- Positions, delta exposure, forward curves and mark-to-market P&L.
- Order books, interconnectors, carbon, limits and VaR.
You come away able to follow a desk's talk of positions, curves and P&L, and to say where each number comes from.
Standard
The Practitioner Track
The instruments and processes, as a desk runs them.
- Day-ahead and intraday power, imbalance, and trading gas in Great Britain.
- Swaps and options: Black 76 and the Greeks.
- EFET and ISDA agreements, PPAs, cross-border capacity and FTRs.
- REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II. Power trading strategies.
- A trade from capture to settlement. The nightly curve run.
You come away able to read a PPA term sheet and follow a trade to settlement.
In their words
"I appreciated how the course bridges technical knowledge with commercial realities, understanding not just how power is generated, but how it's priced, traded and hedged."
Where to start
Standard, because the trading side is in the guides. You do not need to code.
Standard
Learn how the desk works.
$78 a month
Or $690 a year: you save $246.
- Energy Trading Fundamentals, the textbook guides.
- Python for Commodities.
- The Practitioner Track: the advanced guides.
- BESS Economics.
I built the trading platforms behind six desks at Shell, and at Centrica and Limejump.
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