Algorithmic Trading Contracts in London

Algo Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Algorithmic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 346 341
Rank change year-on-year +45 -5 +148
Contract jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 64 52 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.34% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 123
10th Percentile £525 £747 £525
25th Percentile £614 £750 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £1,000 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.95% +53.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £856 £1,241 £713
90th Percentile £913 £1,250 £935
England median daily rate £661 £1,000 £650
% change year-on-year -33.95% +53.85% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Algorithmic 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,490 15,269 22,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.08% 88.75% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,362 10,850 16,681
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 266 257
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.12 £18.58
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.40 £41.04
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -21.06% +14.00%
75th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £70.38 £82.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Algorithmic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Algorithmic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Central London +12 25 £675 -32.50% 13
East London +13 2 £900 +5.88%
Algorithmic Trading
England

Algorithmic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (4.69%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.69%) AWS
1 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (4.69%) Azure
1 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (4.69%) Serverless
2 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
2 2 (3.13%) Azure Storage
3 1 (1.56%) GitHub
3 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Multicast
2 5 (7.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (3.13%) BGP
3 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) HSRP
3 2 (3.13%) IGMP
3 2 (3.13%) OSPF
3 2 (3.13%) VRRP
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) KDB
2 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (53.13%) Finance
2 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 25 (39.06%) Banking
4 22 (34.38%) Investment Banking
5 15 (23.44%) Front Office
6 11 (17.19%) Financial Institution
7 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (6.25%) Retail
8 4 (6.25%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Advertising
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Developer
2 13 (20.31%) Software Engineer
3 12 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Lead
5 8 (12.50%) C++ Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Algorithm Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Senior
7 6 (9.38%) Quantitative Developer
8 5 (7.81%) C++ Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 5 (7.81%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
10 3 (4.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (9.38%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) Blazor
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.69%) Middleware
5 2 (3.13%) HTML
5 2 (3.13%) HTML5
6 1 (1.56%) REST
6 1 (1.56%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (29.69%) Algorithms
3 16 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (18.75%) Hedge funds
5 11 (17.19%) Data Structures
6 10 (15.63%) Equities
7 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
7 8 (12.50%) Derivative
8 6 (9.38%) Fixed Income
8 6 (9.38%) TWAP
8 6 (9.38%) VWAP
9 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.56%) Clustering
11 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Unix
3 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.94%) Electronic Trading
1 39 (60.94%) Low Latency
2 24 (37.50%) Market Making
3 22 (34.38%) Software Engineering
4 19 (29.69%) CI/CD
5 15 (23.44%) Multithreading
6 14 (21.88%) Proprietary Trading
7 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
8 12 (18.75%) Agile
8 12 (18.75%) OO
9 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.06%) Event-Driven
11 9 (14.06%) OOP
12 8 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (12.50%) Scrum
13 7 (10.94%) Mentoring
14 6 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) Python
2 30 (46.88%) Java
3 28 (43.75%) C++
4 9 (14.06%) C
5 6 (9.38%) C#
6 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.25%) SQL
8 3 (4.69%) Go
8 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) MiFID
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (7.81%) Kibana
3 5 (7.81%) logstash
4 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Solace
2 3 (4.69%) MuleSoft
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) Arista
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco
3 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.56%) Refinitiv