Automated Trading Contracts in England

Automated Trading
UK > England

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 475 606
Rank change year-on-year -1 +131 +152
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 9 67 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.18% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.21% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 57 32
10th Percentile £625 - £516
25th Percentile £663 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +9.80% +2.00%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £738
90th Percentile £850 - £809
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £638
% change year-on-year +3.57% +9.80% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in England

Automated Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automated Trading in England.

Daily rate trend for Automated Trading in England

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in England

Automated Trading
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -20 9 £725 +3.57% 74
Automated Trading
UK

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) KDB
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Front Office
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Middle Office Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Middle Office Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Murex Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Perl Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Murex MxML
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Equities
2 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Market Making
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (11.11%) EMIR
1 1 (11.11%) MiFID
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
1 1 (11.11%) ION Trading
1 1 (11.11%) Murex
1 1 (11.11%) Wallstreet Suite