Systematic Trading Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Systematic Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 330 -
Rank change year-on-year -110 - -
Contract jobs citing Systematic Trading 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.039% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.043% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £713 - -
25th Percentile £734 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £1,200
% change year-on-year +3.57% -41.67% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Systematic 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 20,214 11,509 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.29% 90.67% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,094 7,218 10,220
10th Percentile £300 £234 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 820 2,102
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.19 £12.38
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.95 £15.29
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Systematic Trading job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Systematic Trading
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Systematic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Systematic Trading in the UK excluding London

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Scotland +1 6 £800 +14.29%
South East - 1 £850 - 3
Systematic Trading
UK

Systematic 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Qualitative Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 7 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 7 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 7 (100.00%) Workflow
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Operations
2 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) Market Making
3 4 (57.14%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD