Smart Order Routing Contracts

Smart Order Routing (SOR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Smart Order Routing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Order Routing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 681 829
Rank change year-on-year +103 +148 -199
Contract jobs citing Smart Order Routing 1 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.032% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.035% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 28
10th Percentile - £650 £685
25th Percentile £638 £725 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £950 £800
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - £1,475 £840
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Smart Order Routing 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 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Smart Order Routing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Smart Order Routing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Order Routing in the UK

Smart Order Routing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Order Routing.

Daily rate trend for Smart Order Routing in the UK

Smart Order Routing
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Order Routing within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +96 1 £650 -31.58% 3
London +93 1 £650 -31.58% 3

Smart Order Routing
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID