Algorithmic Trading Contracts in London

Algo Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Algorithmic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 341 467
Rank change year-on-year -3 +126 -97
Contract jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 56 142 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 129 115
10th Percentile £713 £525 £525
25th Percentile £750 £538 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £985 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% -13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £1,250 £788 £900
90th Percentile - £943 £950
England median daily rate £971 £650 £750
% change year-on-year +49.31% -13.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Algorithmic 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 requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Algorithmic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithmic Trading in London

Algorithmic Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +41 9 £971 +55.28% 3
East London -4 2 £850 -5.56%
Algorithmic Trading
England

Algorithmic 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 2 (3.57%) SAS
2 1 (1.79%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Endur
1 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.79%) AWS
1 1 (1.79%) Azure
1 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) KDB
2 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) Flink
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Gradle
1 4 (7.14%) IntelliJ
2 3 (5.36%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Maven
3 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (39.29%) Banking
1 22 (39.29%) Finance
2 17 (30.36%) Investment Banking
3 9 (16.07%) Front Office
4 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (78.57%) Developer
2 20 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 14 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 13 (23.21%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 13 (23.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 11 (19.64%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 9 (16.07%) C++ Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 5 (8.93%) KDB Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
9 4 (7.14%) Senior
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Analyst
10 3 (5.36%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 1 (1.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 1 (1.79%) Fidessa Support
12 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (46.43%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (8.93%) XML
3 3 (5.36%) Ultra Messaging
4 2 (3.57%) JSON
4 2 (3.57%) REST
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.79%) Rendezvous
5 1 (1.79%) Spring
5 1 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Fixed Income
2 14 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 13 (23.21%) Derivative
4 9 (16.07%) Hedge funds
5 7 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (10.71%) Equities
6 6 (10.71%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.57%) TWAP
7 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.57%) VWAP
8 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Low Latency
2 28 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (21.43%) Analytics
4 9 (16.07%) Agile
5 8 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 7 (12.50%) Systematic Trading
7 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
7 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 4 (7.14%) High Availability
8 4 (7.14%) OO
8 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.14%) TDD
9 3 (5.36%) Automated Trading
9 3 (5.36%) Backtesting
9 3 (5.36%) Capacity Management
9 3 (5.36%) Change Management
9 3 (5.36%) CI/CD
9 3 (5.36%) Incident Management
9 3 (5.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Java
2 10 (17.86%) C++
3 6 (10.71%) Python
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 3 (5.36%) Perl
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) CCNA
1 11 (19.64%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Cisco
2 4 (7.14%) Solace
2 4 (7.14%) TIBCO
3 2 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle