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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 674 620 906
Rank change year-on-year -54 +286 -256
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 229 384 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.40% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 149 350 217
10th Percentile £27,000 £52,500 £66,200
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% +10.26%
75th Percentile £153,750 £135,938 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -57.04% -10.00% +11.11%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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% +9.38%

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 10 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 10 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 -54 195 £120,000 +20.00% 69
London -33 157 £137,500 +37.50% 69
Work from Home -11 75 £120,000 +26.32% 18
UK excluding London +54 66 £29,000 -57.04%
Scotland -32 28 £75,000 -1.64%
North of England - 20 £29,000 -
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
Midlands 0 16 - -
East Midlands - 16 - -
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 (1.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (15.72%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.79%) BlazeMeter
2 19 (8.30%) AWS
3 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.44%) Serverless
3 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.44%) DHCP
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) LAN
2 1 (0.44%) SNMP
2 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.24%) MySQL
2 9 (3.93%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.31%) KDB
4 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (11.79%) JMeter
2 18 (7.86%) Maven
3 17 (7.42%) JIRA
4 13 (5.68%) Git
5 9 (3.93%) Cucumber
5 9 (3.93%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.93%) Gradle
5 9 (3.93%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.18%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.31%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.87%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 103 (44.98%) Front Office
2 99 (43.23%) Social Skills
3 93 (40.61%) Finance
4 68 (29.69%) Banking
5 59 (25.76%) Investment Banking
6 37 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (11.79%) Law
7 27 (11.79%) Marketing
8 20 (8.73%) Legal
8 20 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (41.92%) Developer
2 55 (24.02%) Java Developer
3 50 (21.83%) Analyst
4 45 (19.65%) Software Engineer
5 42 (18.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 40 (17.47%) Java Engineer
6 40 (17.47%) Java Software Engineer
7 34 (14.85%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (9.17%) Governance Analyst
9 19 (8.30%) Full Stack Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Senior
11 17 (7.42%) Quantitative Developer
12 13 (5.68%) Business Analyst
12 13 (5.68%) Electronic Trading Support
13 12 (5.24%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (4.80%) Java Quantitative Developer
14 11 (4.80%) Lead
15 10 (4.37%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.28%) React
2 33 (14.41%) Spring
3 25 (10.92%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.48%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (6.11%) REST
6 10 (4.37%) Kafka
7 9 (3.93%) Ext JS
8 7 (3.06%) .NET
9 6 (2.62%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.18%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.75%) Middleware
11 4 (1.75%) Rendezvous
12 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.87%) HTML
12 2 (0.87%) Playwright
12 2 (0.87%) Web Services
13 1 (0.44%) D3.js
13 1 (0.44%) Highcharts JS
13 1 (0.44%) Pandas
13 1 (0.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.52%) Fixed Income
2 44 (19.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (11.79%) Market Risk
4 25 (10.92%) Equities
5 21 (9.17%) Hedge funds
5 21 (9.17%) Management Information System
6 20 (8.73%) Reinsurance
7 18 (7.86%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (6.99%) Taxonomies
9 15 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (4.80%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.62%) Algorithms
13 5 (2.18%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.31%) Derivative
14 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.31%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.87%) FPGA
15 2 (0.87%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.79%) Linux
2 11 (4.80%) Unix
3 6 (2.62%) Windows
4 5 (2.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.68%) Agile
2 63 (27.51%) Low Latency
3 58 (25.33%) TDD
4 52 (22.71%) Software Engineering
5 50 (21.83%) Multithreading
6 49 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 41 (17.90%) Microservices
9 35 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
10 34 (14.85%) Decision-Making
11 33 (14.41%) Algorithmic Trading
11 33 (14.41%) Computer Science
12 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
13 31 (13.54%) Risk Management
14 30 (13.10%) SDLC
15 27 (11.79%) BDD
15 27 (11.79%) Data Management
15 27 (11.79%) OO
15 27 (11.79%) Operational Stability
16 26 (11.35%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 125 (54.59%) Java
2 55 (24.02%) SQL
3 35 (15.28%) Python
4 19 (8.30%) C#
5 18 (7.86%) Rust
6 14 (6.11%) C++
7 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.06%) Perl
10 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 41 (17.90%) Degree
2 15 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) QA
2 6 (2.62%) SLA
3 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (5.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.06%) Ansible
3 3 (1.31%) Nmap
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 18 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.68%) Bloomberg
3 9 (3.93%) ION Trading
3 9 (3.93%) TOWER Software
4 7 (3.06%) FFastFill
4 7 (3.06%) Refinitiv
5 5 (2.18%) Oracle
6 4 (1.75%) Murex
6 4 (1.75%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.87%) Databricks
7 2 (0.87%) Sybase
8 1 (0.44%) F5
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.44%) Reuters
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.44%) SAP
8 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow