Automated Trading Contracts

Automated Trading
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 649 834
Rank change year-on-year +130 +185 -134
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 83 46 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.083% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.092% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 35 15
10th Percentile £538 - £563
25th Percentile £550 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £663
90th Percentile £850 - £755
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +58.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 82 £700 +12.00% 21
London +121 82 £700 +9.80% 20
Work from Home +120 11 £1,000 +37.93% 5

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 65 (78.31%) Apache
1 65 (78.31%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) RMDS
2 1 (1.20%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.20%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 68 (81.93%) Azure
2 65 (78.31%) AWS
2 65 (78.31%) GCP
3 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.20%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (78.31%) Apache Ignite
1 65 (78.31%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (56.63%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.61%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) Log4Net
3 1 (1.20%) NUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.20%) Selenium
3 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (86.75%) Finance
1 72 (86.75%) Front Office
2 68 (81.93%) Banking
3 4 (4.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Agriculture
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (85.54%) Developer
2 66 (79.52%) Python Developer
2 66 (79.52%) Python Engineer
3 65 (78.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 65 (78.31%) Python Software Engineer
3 65 (78.31%) Software Engineer
4 64 (77.11%) React Developer
5 33 (39.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 33 (39.76%) Full Stack Engineer
5 33 (39.76%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 33 (39.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Murex Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Senior
7 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (2.41%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (2.41%) Commodities Business Analyst
8 2 (2.41%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (81.93%) React
2 65 (78.31%) gRPC
2 65 (78.31%) Material-UI
2 65 (78.31%) Protocol Buffers
2 65 (78.31%) Redux
3 3 (3.61%) HTML
3 3 (3.61%) HTML5
4 2 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.20%) .NET
5 1 (1.20%) NumPy
5 1 (1.20%) Pandas
5 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (84.34%) Fixed Income
2 67 (80.72%) Hedge funds
3 39 (46.99%) Equities
4 6 (7.23%) Derivative
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Linux
1 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (81.93%) Agile
2 66 (79.52%) Machine Learning
3 65 (78.31%) Artificial Intelligence
3 65 (78.31%) Asset Management
3 65 (78.31%) Full Stack Development
3 65 (78.31%) Investment Management
3 65 (78.31%) Software Engineering
4 6 (7.23%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (6.02%) Risk Management
6 4 (4.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (3.61%) Backtesting
7 3 (3.61%) BDD
7 3 (3.61%) DevOps
7 3 (3.61%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (3.61%) Integration Testing
7 3 (3.61%) Low Latency
7 3 (3.61%) Migration
7 3 (3.61%) System Testing
7 3 (3.61%) Test Automation
7 3 (3.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 70 (84.34%) Python
2 65 (78.31%) TypeScript
3 22 (26.51%) SQL
4 3 (3.61%) Java
4 3 (3.61%) Scala
5 2 (2.41%) Bash
5 2 (2.41%) C#
5 2 (2.41%) C++
5 2 (2.41%) Perl
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
1 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Ansible
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (78.31%) Google
2 4 (4.82%) ION Trading
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Murex
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
3 3 (3.61%) Solace
4 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 2 (2.41%) Sybase
5 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) VMware