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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backtesting 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 1.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 212 109 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.22% 97.32% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 92 70
10th Percentile £313 £308 £219
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -17.53% +14.12%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £524
90th Percentile £537 £622 £538
Northamptonshire median daily rate £411 £402 £480
% change year-on-year +2.43% -16.35% +9.09%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backtesting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Backtesting job vacancy trend in Northampton

Backtesting
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Backtesting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Backtesting

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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) pytest
3 2 (50.00%) PySpark
4 1 (25.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks