High-Frequency Trading Contract Job Trends in South London

High-Frequency Trading
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
London median daily rate £850 £725 £550
% change year-on-year +17.24% +31.82% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

High-Frequency 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 145 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 82.89% 87.35% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 86 141
10th Percentile £361 £260 £338
25th Percentile £456 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £560
90th Percentile £688 £738 £630
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 12
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile £16.70 - £17.19
Median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £56.30
Median % change year-on-year +272.06% -71.86% +11.65%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £83.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £34.00 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
% change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%

High-Frequency Trading
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing High-Frequency Trading within the South London region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Bromley - 1 £850 - 1
High-Frequency Trading
London

High-Frequency Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Storybook
1 1 (100.00%) Vite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) OpenFin
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) RxJS
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript