Smart Order Routing Contracts in London

Smart Order Routing (SOR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Smart Order Routing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Order Routing 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 336 390 473
Rank change year-on-year +54 +83 +95
Contract jobs citing Smart Order Routing 17 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.006% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.006% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 £638 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £950
Median % change year-on-year - -31.58% +18.75%
75th Percentile £900 £663 -
90th Percentile - - £1,475
England median daily rate £650 £650 £950
% change year-on-year - -31.58% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Smart Order Routing 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Smart Order Routing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Order Routing in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Order Routing in London.

Daily rate trend for Smart Order Routing in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Order Routing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Order Routing in London

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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 Smart Order Routing within the London 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
Central London +4 1 - - 2
Smart Order Routing
England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (94.12%) Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Flex Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Derivative
1 11 (64.71%) Equities
2 6 (35.29%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (64.71%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (35.29%) Order Management
5 5 (29.41%) Concurrent Programming
5 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
6 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) ION Trading
1 6 (35.29%) Solace
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Sybase