Automated Trading Contracts in London

Automated Trading
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Automated Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automated Trading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 452 579
Rank change year-on-year +124 +127 -146
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 63 46 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.17% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.19% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 13
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £538 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +20.00%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £763
90th Percentile - £813 £955
England median daily rate £700 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Automated Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automated Trading in London.

Daily rate trend for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +35 1 £1,000 +48.15% 1
Automated Trading
England

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 45 (71.43%) Apache
1 45 (71.43%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (1.59%) ION Anvil
1 1 (1.59%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 46 (73.02%) Azure
2 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 45 (71.43%) GCP
3 2 (3.17%) IaaS
4 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (71.43%) Apache Ignite
1 45 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (49.21%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.17%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (80.95%) Finance
1 51 (80.95%) Front Office
2 47 (74.60%) Banking
3 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (80.95%) Developer
2 47 (74.60%) Python Engineer
3 46 (73.02%) Python Developer
4 45 (71.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 45 (71.43%) Python Software Engineer
4 45 (71.43%) Software Engineer
5 44 (69.84%) React Developer
6 23 (36.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 23 (36.51%) Full Stack Engineer
6 23 (36.51%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 23 (36.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) C++ Developer
8 4 (6.35%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Murex Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) Storage Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (73.02%) React
2 45 (71.43%) gRPC
2 45 (71.43%) Material-UI
2 45 (71.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 45 (71.43%) Redux
3 3 (4.76%) NumPy
3 3 (4.76%) Pandas
4 2 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.59%) HTML
5 1 (1.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (76.19%) Fixed Income
1 48 (76.19%) Hedge funds
2 25 (39.68%) Equities
3 6 (9.52%) Derivative
4 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.17%) Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) Machine Learning
2 46 (73.02%) Agile
2 46 (73.02%) Software Engineering
3 45 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 45 (71.43%) Asset Management
3 45 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
3 45 (71.43%) Investment Management
4 5 (7.94%) Risk Management
5 4 (6.35%) Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (6.35%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (4.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (3.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (3.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.17%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (3.17%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (3.17%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.17%) System Testing
7 2 (3.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (84.13%) Python
2 45 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 19 (30.16%) SQL
4 4 (6.35%) C++
5 3 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) Bash
6 2 (3.17%) Perl
6 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.59%) Java
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.59%) Degree
1 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
1 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Ansible
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 45 (71.43%) Google
2 2 (3.17%) ION Trading
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) Murex
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle
2 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.17%) SAP
2 2 (3.17%) Splunk
2 2 (3.17%) Sybase
2 2 (3.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.59%) Solace