Systematic Trading Contract Job Trends in London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Systematic Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 374 422
Rank change year-on-year +23 +48 +146
Contract jobs citing Systematic Trading 28 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.006% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.007% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile £1,063 £663 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,125 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -9.38%
75th Percentile £1,188 £788 £881
90th Percentile - - £925
England median daily rate £1,125 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -35.56%

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 12,570 13,844 18,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.13% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,263 8,916 13,154
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 166 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.40
25th Percentile £25.03 £25.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £38.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% +2.09% -1.15%
75th Percentile £47.13 £58.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systematic Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Systematic Trading job vacancy trend in London

Systematic Trading
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Systematic Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Systematic Trading

Systematic Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 19 (67.86%) Git
General
1 22 (78.57%) Finance
2 19 (67.86%) Banking
2 19 (67.86%) Investment Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Front Office
4 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Developer
2 19 (67.86%) AWS Developer
2 19 (67.86%) JavaScript Developer
2 19 (67.86%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Endur Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Endur Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Functional Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Implementation Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) OpenLink Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (67.86%) AngularJS
1 19 (67.86%) FastAPI
1 19 (67.86%) Flask
1 19 (67.86%) NumPy
1 19 (67.86%) Pandas
1 19 (67.86%) Polars
1 19 (67.86%) React
1 19 (67.86%) SciPy
1 19 (67.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (67.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 19 (67.86%) Hedge funds
2 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.71%) PMI
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Mathematics
2 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 19 (67.86%) Clean Code
2 19 (67.86%) Data Engineering
2 19 (67.86%) Software Engineering
2 19 (67.86%) Structured Programming
3 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.57%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (3.57%) Agile
5 1 (3.57%) Business Case
5 1 (3.57%) Migration
5 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) C#
1 24 (85.71%) Python
2 19 (67.86%) C++
2 19 (67.86%) Java
2 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
2 19 (67.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CBAP
1 3 (10.71%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
System Software
1 19 (67.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) VMware