High-Frequency Trading Contracts in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency Trading
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £775 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +29.17% -11.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 - 1 £500 -
High-Frequency Trading
UK

High-Frequency 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase