Automated Trading Contracts in London

Automated Trading
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 436 585
Rank change year-on-year +121 +149 -135
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 80 44 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.17% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.19% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 29 14
10th Percentile £538 - £575
25th Percentile £550 £550 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £753
90th Percentile £850 £815 £933
England median daily rate £700 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automated Trading in London.

Daily rate trend for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in London

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 61 (76.25%) Apache
1 61 (76.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) RMDS
2 1 (1.25%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.25%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 64 (80.00%) Azure
2 61 (76.25%) AWS
2 61 (76.25%) GCP
3 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (76.25%) Apache Ignite
1 61 (76.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (53.75%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.75%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Log4Net
3 1 (1.25%) NUnit
3 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (85.00%) Finance
1 68 (85.00%) Front Office
2 64 (80.00%) Banking
3 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Agriculture
4 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (83.75%) Developer
2 63 (78.75%) Python Engineer
3 62 (77.50%) Python Developer
4 61 (76.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 61 (76.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 61 (76.25%) Software Engineer
5 60 (75.00%) React Developer
6 31 (38.75%) Full Stack Developer
6 31 (38.75%) Full Stack Engineer
6 31 (38.75%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 31 (38.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) C++ Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (80.00%) React
2 61 (76.25%) gRPC
2 61 (76.25%) Material-UI
2 61 (76.25%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (76.25%) Redux
3 3 (3.75%) HTML
3 3 (3.75%) HTML5
4 2 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.50%) NumPy
4 2 (2.50%) Pandas
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (82.50%) Fixed Income
2 63 (78.75%) Hedge funds
3 35 (43.75%) Equities
4 6 (7.50%) Derivative
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (80.00%) Agile
2 63 (78.75%) Machine Learning
3 61 (76.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 61 (76.25%) Asset Management
3 61 (76.25%) Full Stack Development
3 61 (76.25%) Investment Management
3 61 (76.25%) Software Engineering
4 6 (7.50%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (5.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (3.75%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (3.75%) Backtesting
6 3 (3.75%) BDD
6 3 (3.75%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (3.75%) DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) Low Latency
6 3 (3.75%) Software Testing
6 3 (3.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (3.75%) TDD
6 3 (3.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (3.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (85.00%) Python
2 61 (76.25%) TypeScript
3 23 (28.75%) SQL
4 3 (3.75%) C#
4 3 (3.75%) Java
4 3 (3.75%) Scala
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
5 2 (2.50%) C++
5 2 (2.50%) Perl
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.25%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
1 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 61 (76.25%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 3 (3.75%) Solace
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.50%) Murex
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) Splunk
4 2 (2.50%) Sybase
4 2 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg