VWAP Contracts in London

Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VWAP in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VWAP 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 345 - 492
Rank change year-on-year - - +102
Contract jobs citing VWAP 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% - 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £881 - -
90th Percentile £913 - -
England median daily rate £763 - £750
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Generic Skills
London

VWAP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

VWAP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VWAP in London

VWAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VWAP in London

VWAP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VWAP in London

VWAP
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 VWAP 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 £875 -
VWAP
England

VWAP
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 4 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (62.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (62.50%) Blazor
3 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) TWAP
2 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 7 (87.50%) Low Latency
3 6 (75.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Data Development
4 5 (62.50%) ETRM
4 5 (62.50%) Market Making
5 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) SDLC
6 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
6 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C++
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) C#
3 5 (62.50%) Go
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle