Automated Trading Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automated Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Automated Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Automated Trading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 469 616
Rank change year-on-year +132 +147 -131
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 11 7 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.027% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.031% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £540 £678 £501
25th Percentile £675 £700 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £775 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +34.78% -6.50%
75th Percentile £1,200 £894 £613
90th Percentile - £943 £658
UK median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Automated Trading 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Automated Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automated Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automated Trading.

Automated Trading daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automated Trading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Automated Trading daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Log4Net
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C++ Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C++ Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) HTML5
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Equities
2 3 (27.27%) Derivative
2 3 (27.27%) Fixed Income
3 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) Hedge funds
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (9.09%) Fat Client
4 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (9.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (27.27%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Backtesting
3 2 (18.18%) BDD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) RAD
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) ION Trading
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
1 2 (18.18%) Solace
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
1 2 (18.18%) Sybase
1 2 (18.18%) VMware