Algorithmic Trading Contracts in the UK excluding London

Algo Trading
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Algorithmic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 453 -
Rank change year-on-year +51 - -
Contract jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.017% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.019% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 -
UK median daily rate £850 £650 £750
% change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Algorithmic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Algorithmic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Algorithmic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithmic Trading in the UK excluding London

Algorithmic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithmic Trading in the UK excluding London

Algorithmic Trading
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Midlands +28 1 - - 2
West Midlands +24 1 - - 2
Algorithmic Trading
UK

Algorithmic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle