High-Frequency Trading Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

High-Frequency Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 299 342 463
Rank change year-on-year +43 +121 +148
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 5 3 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.020% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.022% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £665 £560 £644
25th Percentile £688 £575 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £775
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -22.58% -4.62%
75th Percentile £850 - £788
90th Percentile £925 - £848
UK median daily rate £775 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

High-Frequency Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High-Frequency Trading trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing High-Frequency Trading.

High-Frequency Trading daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

High-Frequency Trading daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) Motif
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Order Management
3 1 (20.00%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) F5