VWAP Contracts in England

Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VWAP in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VWAP over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 - 672
Rank change year-on-year - - +108
Contract jobs citing VWAP 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% - 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.096% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £881 - -
90th Percentile £913 - -
UK median daily rate £763 - £750
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Generic Skills
England

VWAP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,332 11,451 16,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.13% 30.82% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 7,498 11,765
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 827 587
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%
75th Percentile £64.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

VWAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VWAP in England

VWAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VWAP in England

VWAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VWAP in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VWAP in England

VWAP
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 VWAP within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 8 £763 - 1
VWAP
UK

VWAP
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 4 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (62.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (62.50%) Blazor
3 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) TWAP
2 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 7 (87.50%) Low Latency
3 6 (75.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Data Development
4 5 (62.50%) ETRM
4 5 (62.50%) Market Making
5 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) SDLC
6 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
6 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C++
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) C#
3 5 (62.50%) Go
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle