Electronic Trading Jobs in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 364 308 623
Rank change year-on-year -56 +315 -263
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 148 376 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.63% 1.11% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.17% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 112 341 216
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £66,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £100,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £155,000 £135,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £100,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 32,155 68,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,872 23,232 34,355
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,171 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the London 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
Central London +24 33 £120,000 -0.41% 4
East London - 8 £150,000 - 15
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic 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 3 (2.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.16%) AWS
2 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) DHCP
1 2 (1.35%) DNS
1 2 (1.35%) LAN
1 2 (1.35%) SNMP
1 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) MySQL
2 10 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.03%) KDB
4 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Git
2 8 (5.41%) Maven
3 5 (3.38%) IntelliJ
3 5 (3.38%) JIRA
4 3 (2.03%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (60.81%) Front Office
2 62 (41.89%) Finance
3 61 (41.22%) Banking
4 52 (35.14%) Investment Banking
5 42 (28.38%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.76%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Back Office
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (58.11%) Developer
2 48 (32.43%) Java Developer
3 37 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 30 (20.27%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 27 (18.24%) Analyst
6 18 (12.16%) Software Engineer
7 17 (11.49%) Quantitative Developer
7 17 (11.49%) Senior
8 13 (8.78%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) Business Analyst
10 11 (7.43%) Java Quantitative Developer
10 11 (7.43%) Lead
10 11 (7.43%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (6.76%) Lead Developer
12 9 (6.08%) Electronic Trading Support
13 8 (5.41%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.73%) Backend Developer
14 7 (4.73%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.54%) Spring
2 18 (12.16%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (10.14%) Spring Boot
4 14 (9.46%) REST
5 9 (6.08%) Kafka
6 8 (5.41%) React
7 7 (4.73%) .NET
8 6 (4.05%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.70%) Middleware
10 4 (2.70%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.35%) HTML
11 2 (1.35%) LDAP
11 2 (1.35%) Playwright
11 2 (1.35%) Web Services
12 1 (0.68%) D3.js
12 1 (0.68%) Highcharts JS
12 1 (0.68%) Pandas
12 1 (0.68%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.03%) Fixed Income
2 35 (23.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (12.84%) Hedge funds
4 17 (11.49%) Equities
5 15 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (7.43%) Client/Server
8 6 (4.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.03%) Derivative
10 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.03%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.35%) FPGA
11 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.35%) VHDL
11 2 (1.35%) VLSI
12 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.92%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Unix
3 6 (4.05%) Windows
4 5 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.86%) Low Latency
2 53 (35.81%) Agile
3 45 (30.41%) Multithreading
4 31 (20.95%) Algorithmic Trading
5 28 (18.92%) TDD
6 27 (18.24%) OO
7 25 (16.89%) Computer Science
7 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
8 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (14.19%) High-Frequency Trading
10 19 (12.84%) Market Making
11 17 (11.49%) Test Automation
12 16 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (9.46%) DevOps
14 13 (8.78%) Automated Trading
14 13 (8.78%) Microservices
15 12 (8.11%) Design Patterns
16 11 (7.43%) Data Management
16 11 (7.43%) Mathematics
16 11 (7.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (56.76%) Java
2 45 (30.41%) SQL
3 31 (20.95%) Python
4 20 (13.51%) C#
5 19 (12.84%) Rust
6 12 (8.11%) C++
7 8 (5.41%) Perl
7 8 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (11.49%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) QA
1 2 (1.35%) SLA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.41%) Ansible
3 3 (2.03%) Nmap
4 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (8.78%) Bloomberg
2 8 (5.41%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.73%) FFastFill
3 7 (4.73%) Refinitiv
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle
5 4 (2.70%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.35%) Databricks
6 2 (1.35%) F5
6 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.35%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.68%) Murex
7 1 (0.68%) Reuters