Automated Trading Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Automated Trading
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 535 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.52% 93.53% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 398 318
10th Percentile £324 £313 £311
25th Percentile £405 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £439 £478
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -8.16% -9.00%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £576
90th Percentile £650 £639 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 31
10th Percentile £13.72 £12.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.82 £37.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +1.37% +19.52%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year +67.22% -0.33% -1.77%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Automated Trading job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Automated Trading
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Chester - 1 - - 1
Automated Trading
North West

Automated Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco