TWAP Contracts in England

Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TWAP in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TWAP over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 518 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing TWAP 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.018% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.041% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £828 £750 -
25th Percentile £831 £788 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £825 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - -
75th Percentile £913 £900 -
90th Percentile - £956 -
UK median daily rate £875 £825 -
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,865 10,186 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.56% 30.71% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,225 6,552 9,988
10th Percentile £305 £300 £306
25th Percentile £408 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 504 509 377
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.50 £16.85
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% +11.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £41.85
% change year-on-year -34.44% +7.54% +57.91%

TWAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for TWAP in England

TWAP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TWAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TWAP

TWAP
DemandTrendContract 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 TWAP within the England region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +11 4 £875 +6.06% 2
TWAP
UK

TWAP
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 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (100.00%) VWAP
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 4 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Market Making
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Data Development
3 1 (25.00%) E-business
3 1 (25.00%) ETRM
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOD
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle