Automated Trading Contracts

Automated Trading
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 672 825
Rank change year-on-year +133 +153 -185
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 59 47 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.079% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.087% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 16
10th Percentile - £516 £516
25th Percentile £538 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £620
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +2.82% +12.73%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £734
90th Percentile - £809 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +41.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +139 58 £700 +9.80% 28
London +113 58 £700 +7.69% 24
Work from Home +130 9 £800 +12.28% 7

Automated Trading
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 41 (69.49%) Apache
1 41 (69.49%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (1.69%) ION Anvil
1 1 (1.69%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) Azure
2 41 (69.49%) AWS
2 41 (69.49%) GCP
3 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (69.49%) Apache Ignite
1 41 (69.49%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (45.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.39%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (79.66%) Finance
1 47 (79.66%) Front Office
2 43 (72.88%) Banking
3 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Developer
2 43 (72.88%) Python Engineer
3 42 (71.19%) Python Developer
4 41 (69.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 41 (69.49%) Python Software Engineer
4 41 (69.49%) Software Engineer
5 40 (67.80%) React Developer
6 21 (35.59%) Full Stack Developer
6 21 (35.59%) Full Stack Engineer
6 21 (35.59%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 21 (35.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Analyst
8 4 (6.78%) C++ Developer
8 4 (6.78%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Applications Support Analyst
10 2 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (71.19%) React
2 41 (69.49%) gRPC
2 41 (69.49%) Material-UI
2 41 (69.49%) Protocol Buffers
2 41 (69.49%) Redux
3 3 (5.08%) NumPy
3 3 (5.08%) Pandas
4 2 (3.39%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.69%) HTML
5 1 (1.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (74.58%) Fixed Income
1 44 (74.58%) Hedge funds
2 21 (35.59%) Equities
3 6 (10.17%) Derivative
4 4 (6.78%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.39%) Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (74.58%) Machine Learning
2 42 (71.19%) Agile
2 42 (71.19%) Software Engineering
3 41 (69.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 41 (69.49%) Asset Management
3 41 (69.49%) Full Stack Development
3 41 (69.49%) Investment Management
4 5 (8.47%) Risk Management
5 4 (6.78%) Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (6.78%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (3.39%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (3.39%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (3.39%) Integration Testing
7 2 (3.39%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (3.39%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.39%) System Testing
7 2 (3.39%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (83.05%) Python
2 41 (69.49%) TypeScript
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 4 (6.78%) C++
5 3 (5.08%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) Perl
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.69%) Java
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.69%) Degree
1 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
1 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 41 (69.49%) Google
2 2 (3.39%) ION Trading
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.39%) Murex
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.39%) SAP
2 2 (3.39%) Splunk
2 2 (3.39%) Sybase
2 2 (3.39%) VMware
3 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.69%) Solace