Backtesting Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Backtesting
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Backtesting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backtesting 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 1.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

Backtesting 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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 254 141 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.32% 93.38% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 110 74
10th Percentile £309 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £474
Median % change year-on-year - -15.57% +7.06%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £524
90th Percentile £505 £610 £557
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £414 £478
% change year-on-year -2.90% -13.30% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +172.00%

Backtesting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks