TWAP Contracts in the City of London

Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TWAP in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TWAP over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TWAP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £875 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

TWAP falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 605 680 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.67% 31.08% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 467 878
10th Percentile £362 £271 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £801 £850 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -24.73%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -24.73%

TWAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing TWAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for TWAP in the City of London

TWAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for TWAP in the City of London

TWAP
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithm Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) ETRM
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Market Making
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Python