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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 380 457
Rank change year-on-year +19 +77 +138
Contract jobs citing VWAP 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.037% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% 0.11% 0.012%
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

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 5,091 5,444 8,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 33.61% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,331 3,720 5,857
10th Percentile £333 £338 £357
25th Percentile £438 £458 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £706 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £863 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 79
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.29
25th Percentile £23.21 £22.45 £22.62
Median hourly rate £27.25 £32.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -8.40% +14.75%
75th Percentile £46.15 £53.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £65.06 £71.25 £76.50
England median hourly rate £32.05 £52.50 £45.41
% change year-on-year -38.95% +15.61% +74.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VWAP

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 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 2 £875 -6.67%
South London - 1 £850 - 1
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Connectivity
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C++ Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) TWAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (66.67%) Market Making
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) E-business
3 1 (33.33%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA