TWAP Contracts in London

Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TWAP in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TWAP over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 393 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing TWAP 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.037% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.078% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £828 £750 -
25th Percentile £831 £788 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £825 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - -
75th Percentile £913 £900 -
90th Percentile - £956 -
England median daily rate £875 £825 -
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -

All Generic Skills
London

TWAP falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,107 5,449 8,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.88% 33.51% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 3,745 5,930
10th Percentile £333 £332 £356
25th Percentile £440 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £718 £748 £737
90th Percentile £825 £863 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 78 77
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £23.98 £22.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -10.54% +7.69%
75th Percentile £46.35 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £76.75
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

TWAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for TWAP in London

TWAP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TWAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TWAP

TWAP
DemandTrendContract 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 TWAP within the London region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 2 £875 -6.67%
South London - 1 £850 - 1
TWAP
England

TWAP
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 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (100.00%) VWAP
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 4 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Market Making
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Development
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) ETRM
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle