The first table below looks at the demand for Electronic Trading skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Electronic Trading over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Trading
Rank 218 151 95
Rank change year-on-year
-67 -56
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 104 188 374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.892% 1.439% 2.424%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.144% 1.876% 3.209%
Number of salaries quoted 94 169 303
Average salary £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.00% -10.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £86,750 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £36,250 £44,250
% change year-on-year
+24.13% -18.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9087 10019 11653
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.90% 76.69% 75.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7796 9093 10432
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Electronic Trading
London

Electronic Trading
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Electronic Trading Jobs Demand Trend

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region.

City of London Electronic Trading Salary Trend

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Electronic Trading across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Electronic Trading Salary Histogram

Electronic Trading
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Electronic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Electronic Trading.

1 138 (63.01%) Front Office
2 83 (37.90%) Finance
3 81 (36.99%) Java
4 80 (36.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 77 (35.16%) C#
6 61 (27.85%) Banking
7 59 (26.94%) .NET
8 55 (25.11%) Multithreading
9 53 (24.20%) Fixed Income
9 53 (24.20%) UNIX
10 47 (21.46%) WPF
11 46 (21.00%) Investment Banking
12 40 (18.26%) Degree
13 34 (15.53%) Equities
14 32 (14.61%) Oracle
15 31 (14.16%) SQL
15 31 (14.16%) MVVM
16 29 (13.24%) Derivative
16 29 (13.24%) Algorithmic Trading
17 27 (12.33%) SQL Server
18 24 (10.96%) Computer Science
18 24 (10.96%) TDD
19 22 (10.05%) Continuous Integration
19 22 (10.05%) C++
19 22 (10.05%) OO
19 22 (10.05%) Managed Extensibility Framework
20 21 (9.589%) Sybase
20 21 (9.589%) Linux
21 20 (9.132%) QA
21 20 (9.132%) FIX Protocol

Electronic Trading
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Electronic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Electronic Trading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (26.94%) .NET
2 47 (21.46%) WPF
3 22 (10.05%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 20 (9.132%) FIX Protocol
5 18 (8.219%) .NET Framework
6 12 (5.479%) ASP.NET
7 11 (5.023%) Reactive Extensions
8 10 (4.566%) Protocol Buffers
8 10 (4.566%) Hibernate
8 10 (4.566%) LINQ
9 7 (3.196%) WCF
10 6 (2.740%) XML
11 5 (2.283%) Spring
12 3 (1.370%) SOAP
13 2 (0.913%) Middleware
13 2 (0.913%) XML Messaging
13 2 (0.913%) STL
13 2 (0.913%) XSD
13 2 (0.913%) XSL
13 2 (0.913%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.370%) Progress Apama
2 2 (0.913%) Rendezvous
2 2 (0.913%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.913%) Apache
2 2 (0.913%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (0.913%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (1.826%) MS Office
2 3 (1.370%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.457%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.457%) MS Project
3 1 (0.457%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.393%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.913%) Kondor+
2 2 (0.913%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (0.913%) Rolfe and Nolan
3 1 (0.457%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.457%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.219%) HTTP
2 13 (5.936%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.196%) VPN
4 5 (2.283%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.826%) DNS
5 4 (1.826%) DHCP
6 3 (1.370%) LAN
6 3 (1.370%) WAN
7 1 (0.457%) snoop
7 1 (0.457%) VLAN
7 1 (0.457%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.566%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.283%) KDB
3 5 (2.283%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.370%) MySQL
5 2 (0.913%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.913%) DB2
6 1 (0.457%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.457%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.457%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (3.196%) Subversion
1 7 (3.196%) Maven
2 6 (2.740%) Eclipse
3 5 (2.283%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.457%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.457%) Git (software)
General
1 138 (63.01%) Front Office
2 83 (37.90%) Finance
3 61 (27.85%) Banking
4 46 (21.00%) Investment Banking
5 11 (5.023%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.566%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.566%) Wholesale Banking
7 5 (2.283%) French Language
8 4 (1.826%) German Language
9 3 (1.370%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.370%) Legal
10 1 (0.457%) Marketing
10 1 (0.457%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.457%) Games
10 1 (0.457%) Advertising
10 1 (0.457%) Publishing
10 1 (0.457%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 119 (54.34%) Developer
2 62 (28.31%) Java Developer
3 57 (26.03%) Analyst
4 40 (18.26%) C# Developer
5 36 (16.44%) Support Analyst
6 25 (11.42%) WPF Developer
7 15 (6.849%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (5.936%) Technical Support
8 13 (5.936%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.936%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (5.023%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.566%) Applications Support
10 10 (4.566%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (4.566%) GUI Developer
11 8 (3.653%) C++ Developer
12 7 (3.196%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.740%) Graduate
13 6 (2.740%) FIX Analyst
14 5 (2.283%) Applications Support Analyst
15 4 (1.826%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 80 (36.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (24.20%) Fixed Income
3 34 (15.53%) Equities
4 29 (13.24%) Derivative
5 24 (10.96%) Computer Science
6 14 (6.393%) Mathematics
7 10 (4.566%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (2.283%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.283%) Physics
8 5 (2.283%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.826%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.370%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.913%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 2 (0.913%) IIBA
11 2 (0.913%) SWIFT
12 1 (0.457%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.457%) Open Source
12 1 (0.457%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.457%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.457%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.20%) UNIX
2 21 (9.589%) Linux
3 14 (6.393%) Windows
4 3 (1.370%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (1.370%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.913%) Windows Vista
5 2 (0.913%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.457%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (0.457%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.457%) Solaris
6 1 (0.457%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.457%) VMS
6 1 (0.457%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.457%) Windows NT
6 1 (0.457%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.11%) Multithreading
2 31 (14.16%) MVVM
3 29 (13.24%) Algorithmic Trading
4 24 (10.96%) TDD
5 22 (10.05%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (10.05%) OO
6 19 (8.676%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (6.849%) Project Management
7 15 (6.849%) E-Commerce
7 15 (6.849%) Business Analysis
8 11 (5.023%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (5.023%) Risk Management
9 9 (4.110%) Workflow
10 8 (3.653%) Scrum
11 6 (2.740%) System Testing
11 6 (2.740%) Change Control
12 5 (2.283%) Computer Architecture
12 5 (2.283%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (2.283%) Project Planning
12 5 (2.283%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) Java
2 77 (35.16%) C#
3 31 (14.16%) SQL
4 22 (10.05%) C++
5 12 (5.479%) Perl
6 11 (5.023%) Python
7 8 (3.653%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.653%) C
8 5 (2.283%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.913%) VB
9 2 (0.913%) VBA
9 2 (0.913%) Scala
10 1 (0.457%) Clojure
10 1 (0.457%) R
10 1 (0.457%) F#
10 1 (0.457%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.457%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.457%) Ruby
10 1 (0.457%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.457%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (18.26%) Degree
2 3 (1.370%) ISEB
3 2 (0.913%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.913%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (0.913%) MCSE
3 2 (0.913%) MCSA
3 2 (0.913%) MCP
4 1 (0.457%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.457%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.132%) QA
2 4 (1.826%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (3.196%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.283%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 32 (14.61%) Oracle
2 21 (9.589%) Sybase
3 18 (8.219%) Reuters
4 17 (7.763%) Bloomberg
5 14 (6.393%) ION Trading
6 11 (5.023%) Sun
6 11 (5.023%) Fidessa
7 10 (4.566%) 29West
7 10 (4.566%) Infragistics
7 10 (4.566%) Google
8 5 (2.283%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.826%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.913%) Murex
10 2 (0.913%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.913%) IBM
11 1 (0.457%) Tradeweb
11 1 (0.457%) Caplin
11 1 (0.457%) Business Objects
11 1 (0.457%) Cognos
11 1 (0.457%) CQG
City, London
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Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
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Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Exceptional Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
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Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits + Pension
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Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Banking Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
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City, London
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Grey Spark
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
Work with teams to expand, advance and maintain a first rate algorithmic trading suite... - Broad technical skills, including client /server production environments. - Working knowledge of electronic trading platforms,...
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £25000.0000 - £27000.0000 per annum
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City, London
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I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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GreySpark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
Primarily you will work with Oracle 10 and Oracle 11, however the successful Database Manager - Oracle/DBA must be willing to learn or work with MySql, SQL and...
I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £80000 - £85000 per annum + Benefits
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I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £80000 - £85000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
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GreySpark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
CORBA/RMI, Web services, SOAP. JSP, JDBC, Java Servlets, Javabeans/EJBs, ASP. Understanding of Multithreaded applications and Java internals Strong relational database experience (DB2, Sybase, SQL, Oracle 8i/...
Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus (OTE)
Posted: 1 May 2013
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Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
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I.T. Skillfinder
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I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £80000 - £85000 per annum + Benefits
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Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Benefits + Quarterly Bonus
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
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Salary: £60k to £70k + bonus + benefits
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City, London
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Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus (OTE)
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City, London
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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