High-Frequency Trading Jobs with Work from Home Options

High-Frequency Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for High-Frequency Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited High-Frequency 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 563 659 790
Rank change year-on-year +96 +131 -214
Permanent jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 12 1 71
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.035% 0.002% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.003% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 38
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £135,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £140,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £153,438 £145,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £163,750 - -
UK median annual salary £125,000 £102,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +21.95% - +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

High-Frequency 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

High-Frequency Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High-Frequency Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading.

High-Frequency Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

High-Frequency Trading salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Back Office
2 8 (66.67%) Banking
2 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Front Office
3 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 8 (66.67%) Applications Support Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) C++ Programmer
2 2 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Equities
2 2 (16.67%) FPGA
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Unix
3 8 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 8 (66.67%) Change Management
1 8 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
1 8 (66.67%) Compliance Audit
1 8 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
1 8 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Market Making
2 2 (16.67%) Metaprogramming
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (8.33%) Backtesting
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (8.33%) OOP
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Algorithmics
1 8 (66.67%) IBM
1 8 (66.67%) ION Trading
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle