Automated Trading Contract Job Trends in Central London

Automated Trading
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 132 139
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +59
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.043% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.047% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £460 - £463
25th Percentile £531 £775 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £734
90th Percentile £870 - £933
London median daily rate £650 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.88% -1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Automated Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Automated Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Automated Trading job vacancy trend in Central London

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Automated Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Automated Trading

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in Central London

Automated Trading
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
City of London -1 3 £650 -18.75%
Automated Trading
London

Automated Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ION Trading