Automated Trading Contracts in England

Automated Trading
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Automated Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automated Trading over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 604 764
Rank change year-on-year +135 +160 -174
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 69 44 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.088% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.098% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 29 16
10th Percentile £538 - £519
25th Percentile £544 £550 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £734
90th Percentile £795 £815 £888
UK median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Automated Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +127 69 £700 +5.66% 28
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 49 (71.01%) Apache
1 49 (71.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) RMDS
2 1 (1.45%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.45%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 51 (73.91%) Azure
2 49 (71.01%) AWS
2 49 (71.01%) GCP
3 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.90%) IaaS
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (71.01%) Apache Ignite
1 49 (71.01%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (47.83%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) Log4Net
3 1 (1.45%) NUnit
3 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (81.16%) Front Office
2 55 (79.71%) Finance
3 52 (75.36%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (81.16%) Developer
2 51 (73.91%) Python Engineer
3 50 (72.46%) Python Developer
4 49 (71.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 49 (71.01%) Python Software Engineer
4 49 (71.01%) Software Engineer
5 48 (69.57%) React Developer
6 25 (36.23%) Full Stack Developer
6 25 (36.23%) Full Stack Engineer
6 25 (36.23%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 25 (36.23%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) C++ Developer
8 4 (5.80%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior
10 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (73.91%) React
2 49 (71.01%) gRPC
2 49 (71.01%) Material-UI
2 49 (71.01%) Protocol Buffers
2 49 (71.01%) Redux
3 3 (4.35%) NumPy
3 3 (4.35%) Pandas
4 2 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.90%) HTML
4 2 (2.90%) HTML5
5 1 (1.45%) .NET
5 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (76.81%) Fixed Income
2 52 (75.36%) Hedge funds
3 27 (39.13%) Equities
4 7 (10.14%) Derivative
5 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.90%) Clustering
6 2 (2.90%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.45%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (75.36%) Machine Learning
2 51 (73.91%) Agile
3 50 (72.46%) Software Engineering
4 49 (71.01%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (71.01%) Asset Management
4 49 (71.01%) Full Stack Development
4 49 (71.01%) Investment Management
5 5 (7.25%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (7.25%) Risk Management
6 4 (5.80%) Algorithmic Trading
7 3 (4.35%) Analytics
7 3 (4.35%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (4.35%) Low Latency
7 3 (4.35%) Software Testing
7 3 (4.35%) Test Automation
7 3 (4.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (2.90%) Backtesting
8 2 (2.90%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (2.90%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (82.61%) Python
2 49 (71.01%) TypeScript
3 22 (31.88%) SQL
4 4 (5.80%) C#
4 4 (5.80%) C++
5 2 (2.90%) Bash
5 2 (2.90%) Java
5 2 (2.90%) Perl
5 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.90%) Scala
6 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.45%) Degree
1 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
1 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Ansible
2 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 49 (71.01%) Google
2 3 (4.35%) ION Trading
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Murex
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) Solace
3 2 (2.90%) Splunk
3 2 (2.90%) Sybase
3 2 (2.90%) VMware
4 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg