Algorithmic Trading Jobs in England

Algo Trading
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Algorithmic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 753 857
Rank change year-on-year +2 +104 -168
Permanent jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 88 165 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 60 132 202
10th Percentile £54,750 £67,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £108,750 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% -1.14% +22.22%
75th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £165,375 £180,000 £152,500
UK median annual salary £140,000 £102,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +36.59% - +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Algorithmic 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,416 85,899 127,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.47% 95.61% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53,988 50,919 73,096
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Algorithmic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Algorithmic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +44 81 £140,000 +28.74% 63
South West - 4 £55,000 - 1
South East - 3 £85,000 -
Algorithmic Trading
UK

Algorithmic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.14%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Simulink
1 6 (6.82%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) Azure
2 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.41%) AWS
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) KDB
1 3 (3.41%) Tick Data
2 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.27%) Redis
3 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Git
General
1 32 (36.36%) Front Office
2 29 (32.95%) Finance
3 28 (31.82%) Banking
3 28 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Back Office
6 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (71.59%) Developer
2 35 (39.77%) Quantitative Developer
3 27 (30.68%) Java Developer
4 18 (20.45%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 18 (20.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 16 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 13 (14.77%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 12 (13.64%) C++ Developer
8 11 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
9 10 (11.36%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 8 (9.09%) Senior
11 7 (7.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 6 (6.82%) Java Engineer
12 6 (6.82%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (6.82%) Python Developer
13 5 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (4.55%) Machine Learning Developer
14 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
15 3 (3.41%) Algorithm Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (9.09%) Kafka
3 7 (7.95%) Spring
4 6 (6.82%) .NET
4 6 (6.82%) PyTorch
4 6 (6.82%) REST
4 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.82%) TensorFlow
5 5 (5.68%) React
5 5 (5.68%) Rendezvous
6 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.55%) Middleware
7 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.41%) LINQ
7 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
8 2 (2.27%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.95%) Fixed Income
2 28 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (30.68%) Algorithms
4 23 (26.14%) Equities
5 18 (20.45%) Hedge funds
6 10 (11.36%) Data Structures
7 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
8 4 (4.55%) Robotics
9 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
10 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
2 30 (34.09%) Low Latency
3 28 (31.82%) Mathematics
4 26 (29.55%) Computer Science
5 22 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 21 (23.86%) Market Making
7 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (18.18%) Quantitative Trading
9 15 (17.05%) High-Frequency Trading
10 13 (14.77%) Machine Learning
10 13 (14.77%) Multithreading
11 11 (12.50%) Backtesting
11 11 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (12.50%) Physics
12 10 (11.36%) DevOps
12 10 (11.36%) Quantitative Research
13 9 (10.23%) Agile
13 9 (10.23%) Memory Management
14 8 (9.09%) Decision-Making
15 7 (7.95%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.59%) Java
2 33 (37.50%) Python
3 22 (25.00%) C++
4 15 (17.05%) SQL
5 14 (15.91%) C#
6 7 (7.95%) MATLAB
7 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.27%) Go
8 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
9 1 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) PhD
3 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) OpenAI
2 5 (5.68%) TIBCO
3 2 (2.27%) Solace
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle