Electronic Trading Jobs in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 572 866
Rank change year-on-year -93 +294 -258
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 175 378 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.45% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 133 343 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £52,750 £66,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £135,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £157,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £117,500 £100,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in England.

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -56 148 £137,500 +37.50% 71
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
North of England - 20 £29,000 - 1
Midlands -3 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 - -
South East - 2 £55,000 - 15
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.29%) AWS
2 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) DHCP
1 2 (1.14%) DNS
1 2 (1.14%) LAN
1 2 (1.14%) SNMP
1 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) MySQL
2 10 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.71%) KDB
4 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Git
2 8 (4.57%) Maven
3 5 (2.86%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.86%) JIRA
4 3 (1.71%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.14%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (51.43%) Front Office
2 69 (39.43%) Social Skills
3 62 (35.43%) Finance
4 61 (34.86%) Banking
5 52 (29.71%) Investment Banking
6 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (11.43%) Legal
7 20 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Back Office
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (49.14%) Developer
2 49 (28.00%) Analyst
3 48 (27.43%) Java Developer
4 37 (21.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 30 (17.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 21 (12.00%) Governance Analyst
7 18 (10.29%) Software Engineer
8 17 (9.71%) Quantitative Developer
8 17 (9.71%) Senior
9 13 (7.43%) Java Engineer
9 13 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (6.86%) Business Analyst
11 11 (6.29%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Lead
11 11 (6.29%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (5.71%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.71%) Support Analyst
13 9 (5.14%) Electronic Trading Support
14 8 (4.57%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.14%) Spring
2 18 (10.29%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.00%) REST
5 9 (5.14%) Kafka
6 8 (4.57%) React
7 7 (4.00%) .NET
8 6 (3.43%) Hibernate
9 5 (2.86%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.29%) Middleware
10 4 (2.29%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.14%) HTML
11 2 (1.14%) LDAP
11 2 (1.14%) Playwright
11 2 (1.14%) Web Services
12 1 (0.57%) D3.js
12 1 (0.57%) Highcharts JS
12 1 (0.57%) Pandas
12 1 (0.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.86%) Fixed Income
2 37 (21.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (11.43%) Reinsurance
4 19 (10.86%) Hedge funds
5 17 (9.71%) Equities
6 15 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (6.29%) Client/Server
9 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (3.43%) Algorithms
10 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.86%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.71%) Derivative
12 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.71%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.14%) FPGA
13 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.00%) Linux
2 13 (7.43%) Unix
3 6 (3.43%) Windows
4 5 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.71%) Low Latency
2 53 (30.29%) Agile
3 45 (25.71%) Multithreading
4 31 (17.71%) Algorithmic Trading
5 29 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.00%) TDD
7 27 (15.43%) OO
8 25 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 25 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.57%) Customer Service
10 21 (12.00%) High-Frequency Trading
11 19 (10.86%) Market Making
12 17 (9.71%) Test Automation
13 16 (9.14%) Data Management
13 16 (9.14%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (8.00%) DevOps
15 13 (7.43%) Automated Trading
15 13 (7.43%) E-Commerce
15 13 (7.43%) Microservices
16 12 (6.86%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.00%) Java
2 45 (25.71%) SQL
3 31 (17.71%) Python
4 20 (11.43%) C#
5 19 (10.86%) Rust
6 12 (6.86%) C++
7 8 (4.57%) Perl
7 8 (4.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) Degree
2 11 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) QA
1 2 (1.14%) SLA
2 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (6.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.57%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) Nmap
4 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (7.43%) Bloomberg
2 8 (4.57%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.00%) FFastFill
3 7 (4.00%) Refinitiv
4 6 (3.43%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.86%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.71%) Murex
8 2 (1.14%) Databricks
8 2 (1.14%) F5
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) Reuters