High-Frequency Trading Contracts with Work from Home Options

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 454 600
Rank change year-on-year +111 +146 -110
Contract jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 4 14 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.057% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.063% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 21
10th Percentile £565 £653 £550
25th Percentile £588 £725 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £775 £775
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - +82.35%
75th Percentile - £788 £900
90th Percentile - £840 -
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

High-Frequency 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 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

High-Frequency Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

High-Frequency Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading.

High-Frequency Trading daily rate 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 (25.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (25.00%) Hyperledger
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptocurrency
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree