Systematic Trading Contracts in London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Systematic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systematic Trading 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 338 375 479
Rank change year-on-year +37 +104 +115
Contract jobs citing Systematic Trading 15 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.090% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.10% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 12
10th Percentile £291 £866 £776
25th Percentile £409 £900 £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £1,175 £838
Median % change year-on-year -47.87% +40.30% +28.85%
75th Percentile £797 £1,250 £972
90th Percentile £904 - £1,221
England median daily rate £613 £1,175 £1,125
% change year-on-year -47.87% +4.44% +73.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Systematic 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 11,564 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%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading 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 0 1 - - 6
Systematic Trading
England

Systematic 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 9 (60.00%) Banking
2 9 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Python Developer
3 7 (46.67%) AWS Developer
3 7 (46.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 9 (60.00%) FastAPI
1 9 (60.00%) Flask
1 9 (60.00%) NumPy
1 9 (60.00%) Pandas
1 9 (60.00%) Polars
1 9 (60.00%) React
1 9 (60.00%) SciPy
1 9 (60.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Hedge funds
2 7 (46.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) PMI
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Clean Code
3 7 (46.67%) Structured Programming
4 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Business Case
4 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Use Case
5 1 (6.67%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) C++
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (53.33%) C#
4 7 (46.67%) Java
4 7 (46.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CBAP
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes