Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 680 617 933
Rank change year-on-year -63 +316 -273
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 208 390 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.41% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 138 353 230
10th Percentile £27,000 £53,750 £64,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £100,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £127,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £157,500 £137,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -57.04% - +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the UK 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
England -93 175 £120,000 +20.00% 72
London -56 148 £137,500 +37.50% 71
Work from Home -9 59 £120,000 +26.32% 16
UK excluding London +43 54 £29,000 -57.04% 16
Scotland -39 27 - -
North of England - 20 £29,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
Midlands -3 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 - -
South East - 2 £55,000 - 15

Electronic 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 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (12.02%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.98%) BlazeMeter
2 19 (9.13%) AWS
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.48%) Serverless
3 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.96%) DHCP
2 2 (0.96%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) LAN
2 2 (0.96%) SNMP
2 2 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.77%) MySQL
2 10 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.44%) KDB
4 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (12.98%) JMeter
2 18 (8.65%) JIRA
3 17 (8.17%) Maven
4 12 (5.77%) Git
5 9 (4.33%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.33%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.33%) Gradle
5 9 (4.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.40%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.44%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.96%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 95 (45.67%) Finance
2 94 (45.19%) Front Office
3 83 (39.90%) Social Skills
4 62 (29.81%) Banking
5 53 (25.48%) Investment Banking
6 37 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (12.98%) Law
7 27 (12.98%) Marketing
8 20 (9.62%) Legal
8 20 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.73%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (41.35%) Developer
2 50 (24.04%) Analyst
3 48 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 45 (21.63%) Software Engineer
5 40 (19.23%) Java Engineer
5 40 (19.23%) Java Software Engineer
6 37 (17.79%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 30 (14.42%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (10.10%) Governance Analyst
9 19 (9.13%) Full Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.65%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 18 (8.65%) Senior
11 17 (8.17%) Quantitative Developer
12 13 (6.25%) Business Analyst
12 13 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Support
13 12 (5.77%) Lead
14 11 (5.29%) Java Quantitative Developer
14 11 (5.29%) Senior Developer
14 11 (5.29%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (4.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.83%) React
2 32 (15.38%) Spring
3 24 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 23 (11.06%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (6.73%) REST
6 9 (4.33%) Ext JS
6 9 (4.33%) Kafka
7 7 (3.37%) .NET
8 6 (2.88%) Hibernate
9 5 (2.40%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.92%) Middleware
10 4 (1.92%) Rendezvous
11 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.96%) HTML
11 2 (0.96%) LDAP
11 2 (0.96%) Playwright
11 2 (0.96%) Web Services
12 1 (0.48%) J2EE
12 1 (0.48%) Pandas
12 1 (0.48%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (19.71%) Fixed Income
3 27 (12.98%) Market Risk
4 21 (10.10%) Equities
5 20 (9.62%) Reinsurance
6 19 (9.13%) Hedge funds
7 15 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (5.29%) Client/Server
10 10 (4.81%) Management Information System
11 7 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.88%) Algorithms
13 5 (2.40%) Onboarding
13 5 (2.40%) Taxonomies
14 3 (1.44%) Derivative
14 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.44%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.96%) FPGA
15 2 (0.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.46%) Linux
2 13 (6.25%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Windows
4 5 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.94%) Agile
2 59 (28.37%) Low Latency
3 55 (26.44%) TDD
4 52 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 45 (21.63%) Multithreading
6 44 (21.15%) Test Automation
7 40 (19.23%) Microservices
8 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.35%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (15.38%) CI/CD
11 31 (14.90%) Algorithmic Trading
11 31 (14.90%) Risk Management
12 30 (14.42%) SDLC
13 29 (13.94%) Computer Science
14 27 (12.98%) BDD
14 27 (12.98%) OO
14 27 (12.98%) Operational Stability
15 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
16 23 (11.06%) Decision-Making
17 21 (10.10%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 116 (55.77%) Java
2 54 (25.96%) SQL
3 32 (15.38%) Python
4 20 (9.62%) C#
5 19 (9.13%) Rust
6 12 (5.77%) C++
7 11 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.85%) Perl
8 8 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (17.79%) Degree
2 11 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) QA
2 6 (2.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (5.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.85%) Ansible
3 3 (1.44%) Nmap
4 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 9 (4.33%) TOWER Software
3 8 (3.85%) ION Trading
4 7 (3.37%) FFastFill
4 7 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.37%) Refinitiv
5 6 (2.88%) Oracle
6 4 (1.92%) Murex
6 4 (1.92%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.96%) Databricks
7 2 (0.96%) F5
7 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.96%) Sybase
8 1 (0.48%) Reuters
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.48%) SAP