High-Frequency Trading Contract Job Trends in the City of London

High-Frequency Trading
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £755
25th Percentile £623 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.00%
75th Percentile £688 - £938
90th Percentile - - £945
Central London median daily rate £650 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +70.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

High-Frequency 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,601 1,928 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.29% 91.63% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,184 1,769
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 18
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £51.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.22%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High-Frequency Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

High-Frequency Trading job vacancy trend in the City of London

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High-Frequency Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High-Frequency Trading

High-Frequency Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 5 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) RBAC
1 5 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (100.00%) Kibana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Solace