Backtesting Contracts

Backtesting
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backtesting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backtesting over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 668 819
Rank change year-on-year +107 +151 -132
Contract jobs citing Backtesting 29 31 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.054% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.060% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 19
10th Percentile £235 £600 £550
25th Percentile £588 £650 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £800 £775
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £1,069 £825 £844
90th Percentile £1,200 £906 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backtesting 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backtesting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backtesting in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backtesting.

Daily rate trend for Backtesting in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backtesting over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backtesting in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backtesting.

Hourly rate trend for Backtesting in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +104 29 £925 +15.63% 45
London +97 29 £925 +15.63% 41
Work from Home +120 11 £975 +88.41% 12

Backtesting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Ethereum
1 1 (3.45%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (31.03%) GitHub
3 7 (24.14%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) KDB
3 1 (3.45%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 18 (62.07%) Finance
2 14 (48.28%) Front Office
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Quantitative Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Analyst
5 5 (17.24%) Python Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Senior Quantitative Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Qualitative Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Quantitative Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Quantitative Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Risk Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Energy Trading Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Pandas
2 10 (34.48%) NumPy
2 10 (34.48%) SciPy
3 4 (13.79%) React
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) HTML5
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) ADO
5 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.45%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Derivative
2 8 (27.59%) Fixed Income
3 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Equities
4 2 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (6.90%) Market Risk
4 2 (6.90%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (6.90%) Solar Panel
5 1 (3.45%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Computer Science
2 12 (41.38%) Mathematics
2 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (31.03%) Product Requirements
6 8 (27.59%) Applied Mathematics
6 8 (27.59%) Financial Modelling
7 7 (24.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (24.14%) Low Latency
7 7 (24.14%) Mathematical Modelling
7 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (17.24%) Probabilistic Modelling
9 4 (13.79%) Electronic Trading
10 3 (10.34%) Algorithmic Trading
10 3 (10.34%) Analytics
10 3 (10.34%) BDD
10 3 (10.34%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 16 (55.17%) Java
3 14 (48.28%) C++
3 14 (48.28%) SQL
4 9 (31.03%) Rust
5 5 (17.24%) R
6 4 (13.79%) C#
7 3 (10.34%) PHP
7 3 (10.34%) Scala
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) Perl
8 1 (3.45%) Ruby
8 1 (3.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (10.34%) PhD
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) ION Trading
1 3 (10.34%) Solace