Backtesting Contracts

Backtesting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backtesting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backtesting 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 570 685 819
Rank change year-on-year +115 +134 -155
Contract jobs citing Backtesting 28 34 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.057% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.063% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 24
10th Percentile £235 £609 £519
25th Percentile £569 £656 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £800 £763
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +4.92% +8.93%
75th Percentile £1,017 £863 £828
90th Percentile £1,091 £906 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backtesting 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%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backtesting in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backtesting in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Backtesting in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backtesting.

Hourly rate trend for Backtesting in the UK

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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 Backtesting 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 +122 28 £850 +6.25% 47
London +96 28 £850 +6.25% 45
Work from Home +132 9 £950 +18.75% 12

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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 1 (3.57%) Ethereum
1 1 (3.57%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) GitHub
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) KDB
3 1 (3.57%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 18 (64.29%) Finance
2 14 (50.00%) Front Office
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Quantitative Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Python Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Quantitative Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) Qualitative Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) Risk Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Energy Trading Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Pricing Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Pandas
2 10 (35.71%) NumPy
2 10 (35.71%) SciPy
3 2 (7.14%) React
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ADO
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.57%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Derivative
2 7 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (21.43%) Fixed Income
4 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.14%) Equities
4 2 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (7.14%) Hedge funds
4 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
4 2 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (7.14%) Solar Panel
5 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Computer Science
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Mathematics
2 12 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (32.14%) Product Requirements
5 8 (28.57%) Applied Mathematics
5 8 (28.57%) Financial Modelling
5 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (25.00%) Mathematical Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
7 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (17.86%) Probabilistic Modelling
8 4 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
9 3 (10.71%) Analytics
9 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Finance
10 2 (7.14%) Fintech
10 2 (7.14%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Python
2 15 (53.57%) C++
3 14 (50.00%) Java
3 14 (50.00%) SQL
4 9 (32.14%) Rust
5 5 (17.86%) C#
5 5 (17.86%) R
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) Perl
7 1 (3.57%) Ruby
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (10.71%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
1 1 (3.57%) Solace