High-Frequency Trading Contracts

High-Frequency Trading
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 578 674
Rank change year-on-year +72 +96 +149
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 14 4 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.009% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.011% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 43
10th Percentile £633 £560 £575
25th Percentile £691 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £844 - £772
90th Percentile £863 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK

High-Frequency Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High-Frequency Trading.

Daily rate trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High-Frequency Trading in the UK

High-Frequency Trading
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +68 13 £775 +40.91% 120
London +49 13 £775 +40.91% 106
Work from Home +43 5 £800 +33.33% 49
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £500 - 54

High-Frequency Trading
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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) BGP
2 2 (14.29%) BIG-IP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
2 2 (14.29%) HSRP
2 2 (14.29%) IGMP
2 2 (14.29%) IPsec
2 2 (14.29%) Multicast
2 2 (14.29%) OSPF
2 2 (14.29%) SNMP
2 2 (14.29%) VRRP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) VoIP
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) KDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Front Office
4 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Core Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) Motif
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) Redux
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Low Latency
2 3 (21.43%) Network Design
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 2 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Network Management
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Arista
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase