Automated Trading Contract Job Trends in Perthshire

Automated Trading
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Perthshire requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Perthshire 66.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £721 - -
25th Percentile £734 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - -
75th Percentile £784 - -
90th Percentile £794 - -
Scotland median daily rate £725 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Perthshire

Automated Trading 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 Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3 23 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 100.00% 92.00% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 20
10th Percentile £644 £360 £412
25th Percentile £669 £503 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +15.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £769 £700 £569
90th Percentile £788 - £598
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%

Automated Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perthshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Market Making
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Systematic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL