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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 601 931
Rank change year-on-year -92 +330 -270
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 204 387 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.41% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 139 349 229
10th Percentile £27,000 £54,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £127,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £157,500 £138,000
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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 8 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 23 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 -81 171 £120,000 +20.00% 46
London -51 149 £135,000 +35.00% 46
Work from Home -32 55 £120,000 +26.32% 13
UK excluding London +54 49 £29,000 -57.04%
Scotland -32 27 - -
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
North of England - 20 £29,000 -
South East - 2 £55,000 -

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 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.24%) BlazeMeter
2 19 (9.31%) AWS
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.49%) Serverless
3 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.98%) DHCP
2 2 (0.98%) DNS
2 2 (0.98%) LAN
2 2 (0.98%) SNMP
2 2 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.88%) MySQL
2 10 (4.90%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.47%) KDB
4 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.49%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (13.24%) JMeter
2 19 (9.31%) JIRA
3 17 (8.33%) Maven
4 12 (5.88%) Git
5 9 (4.41%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.41%) Gradle
5 9 (4.41%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.45%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.47%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.98%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 94 (46.08%) Finance
2 93 (45.59%) Front Office
3 78 (38.24%) Social Skills
4 61 (29.90%) Banking
5 52 (25.49%) Investment Banking
6 38 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (13.24%) Law
7 27 (13.24%) Marketing
8 21 (10.29%) Legal
9 20 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (6.86%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (42.16%) Developer
2 51 (25.00%) Analyst
3 48 (23.53%) Java Developer
4 45 (22.06%) Software Engineer
5 40 (19.61%) Java Engineer
5 40 (19.61%) Java Software Engineer
6 37 (18.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 30 (14.71%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (10.29%) Governance Analyst
9 19 (9.31%) Full Stack Engineer
10 18 (8.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 18 (8.82%) Senior
11 17 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Business Analyst
12 13 (6.37%) Electronic Trading Support
13 12 (5.88%) Lead
14 11 (5.39%) Java Quantitative Developer
14 11 (5.39%) Senior Developer
14 11 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (4.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.16%) React
2 32 (15.69%) Spring
3 24 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
3 24 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 14 (6.86%) REST
5 9 (4.41%) Ext JS
5 9 (4.41%) Kafka
6 8 (3.92%) .NET
7 6 (2.94%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.45%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.96%) Middleware
9 4 (1.96%) Rendezvous
10 2 (0.98%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.98%) HTML
10 2 (0.98%) LDAP
10 2 (0.98%) Playwright
10 2 (0.98%) Web Services
11 1 (0.49%) CSS
11 1 (0.49%) J2EE
11 1 (0.49%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (20.10%) Fixed Income
3 27 (13.24%) Market Risk
4 21 (10.29%) Equities
5 20 (9.80%) Reinsurance
6 19 (9.31%) Hedge funds
7 15 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (5.88%) Client/Server
8 12 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.94%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.47%) Derivative
11 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.98%) FPGA
12 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.24%) Linux
2 13 (6.37%) Unix
3 6 (2.94%) Windows
4 5 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.98%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.71%) Agile
2 60 (29.41%) Low Latency
3 55 (26.96%) TDD
4 53 (25.98%) Software Engineering
5 44 (21.57%) Multithreading
5 44 (21.57%) Test Automation
6 40 (19.61%) Microservices
7 34 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
7 34 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (15.69%) CI/CD
9 31 (15.20%) Algorithmic Trading
9 31 (15.20%) Risk Management
10 29 (14.22%) Computer Science
10 29 (14.22%) SDLC
11 27 (13.24%) BDD
11 27 (13.24%) Operational Stability
12 26 (12.75%) Customer Service
12 26 (12.75%) OO
13 21 (10.29%) High-Frequency Trading
14 19 (9.31%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (56.86%) Java
2 53 (25.98%) SQL
3 31 (15.20%) Python
4 21 (10.29%) C#
5 19 (9.31%) Rust
6 11 (5.39%) C++
6 11 (5.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.92%) Perl
7 8 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) F#
Qualifications
1 37 (18.14%) Degree
2 10 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.39%) QA
2 6 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (5.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.92%) Ansible
3 3 (1.47%) Nmap
4 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (6.37%) Bloomberg
2 9 (4.41%) TOWER Software
3 8 (3.92%) ION Trading
4 7 (3.43%) FFastFill
4 7 (3.43%) Refinitiv
5 6 (2.94%) Oracle
6 4 (1.96%) Murex
6 4 (1.96%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.98%) Databricks
8 2 (0.98%) F5
8 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.98%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) Reuters
9 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) SAP