High-Frequency Trading Contracts in England

High-Frequency Trading
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 472 540 609
Rank change year-on-year +68 +69 +141
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 13 2 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.005% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.006% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 43
10th Percentile £680 - £575
25th Percentile £700 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £850 - £772
90th Percentile £875 - £788
UK median daily rate £775 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency 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 +49 13 £775 +40.91% 125
High-Frequency Trading
UK

High-Frequency 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
2 2 (15.38%) HSRP
2 2 (15.38%) IGMP
2 2 (15.38%) IPsec
2 2 (15.38%) Multicast
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) SNMP
2 2 (15.38%) VRRP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) Internet
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Front Office
4 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Front Office Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) KDB Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) React Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Flask
2 1 (7.69%) Motif
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) Redux
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Low Latency
2 3 (23.08%) Network Design
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
3 2 (15.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (15.38%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 2 (15.38%) Data Management
3 2 (15.38%) Network Management
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.69%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
4 1 (7.69%) LLM
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
4 1 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
2 2 (15.38%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) F5
2 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Arista
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds