High-Frequency Trading Contracts in London

High-Frequency Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 402 435
Rank change year-on-year +66 +33 +112
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 14 2 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.011% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.013% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 37
10th Percentile £621 - £498
25th Percentile £650 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £850 - £725
90th Percentile £875 - £813
England median daily rate £725 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,626 15,521 22,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.34% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,071 16,509
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in London

High-Frequency Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for High-Frequency Trading in London

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High-Frequency Trading in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High-Frequency Trading in London

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 - 2 £660 - 32
High-Frequency Trading
England

High-Frequency 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Multicast
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) BGP
3 2 (14.29%) BIG-IP
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
3 2 (14.29%) HSRP
3 2 (14.29%) IGMP
3 2 (14.29%) IPsec
3 2 (14.29%) OSPF
3 2 (14.29%) SNMP
3 2 (14.29%) VRRP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) Internet
4 1 (7.14%) VoIP
4 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Front Office
6 1 (7.14%) Back Office
6 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Commodities Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) Motif
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Low Latency
2 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (21.43%) Data Science
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
2 3 (21.43%) Network Design
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Network Management
3 2 (14.29%) Observability
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) RBAC
3 2 (14.29%) Time Management
3 2 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (7.14%) Mathematics
4 1 (7.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
2 2 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Arista
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 2 (14.29%) Solace
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds