Automated Trading Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Automated Trading
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 356 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.007% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.27% - -
75th Percentile £269 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Automated Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Automated Trading job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Automated Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Automated Trading

Automated 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 Automated Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Northern Ireland -6 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £263 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 4
Automated Trading
UK

Automated Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Market Making
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MarketAxess
1 1 (25.00%) Tradeweb