High-Frequency Trading Contracts in the City of London

High-Frequency Trading
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £623 - -
25th Percentile £624 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £681 - £850
90th Percentile £685 - -
Central London median daily rate £650 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

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 1,653 1,927 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 91.07% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,337 2,114
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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

Job postings citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in the City of London

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High-Frequency Trading in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for High-Frequency Trading in the City of London

High-Frequency Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Solace