Smart Order Routing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Smart Order Routing (SOR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Smart Order Routing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Order Routing 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 287 - 474
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing Smart Order Routing 17 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile £600 - £838
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £875
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.90%
75th Percentile £850 - £913
90th Percentile £900 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £950
% change year-on-year - -31.58% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Smart Order Routing 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%

Smart Order Routing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Smart Order Routing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smart Order Routing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Smart Order Routing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Smart Order Routing.

Smart Order Routing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Order Routing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Smart Order Routing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Smart Order Routing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Order Routing
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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
2 1 (5.88%) HSRP
2 1 (5.88%) IGMP
2 1 (5.88%) IPsec
2 1 (5.88%) Multicast
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) Unicast
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) VRRP
2 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
General
1 16 (94.12%) Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
1 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
1 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
1 16 (94.12%) Java Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Flex Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Derivative
1 11 (64.71%) Equities
2 5 (29.41%) State Machine
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 16 (94.12%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (70.59%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (29.41%) Concurrent Programming
4 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
4 5 (29.41%) Order Management
5 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Direct Market Access
6 1 (5.88%) Logistics
6 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Management
6 1 (5.88%) Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) ION Trading
1 5 (29.41%) Solace
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco