Backtesting Jobs in England

Backtesting
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 814 888 1046
Rank change year-on-year +74 +158 -230
Permanent jobs citing Backtesting 28 41 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.044% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.046% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 24 32 70
10th Percentile £62,500 £35,733 £97,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £52,500 £110,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £110,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £155,000 £162,500 £146,250
90th Percentile £198,750 £170,000 £159,375
UK median annual salary £137,500 £98,442 £125,000
% change year-on-year +39.68% -21.25% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backtesting 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 73,147 88,376 126,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,950 52,212 73,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £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 £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,243 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backtesting in England

Backtesting
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Backtesting in England

Backtesting
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backtesting in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backtesting in England

Backtesting
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +113 23 £150,000 -3.23% 49
South West -24 4 £85,000 -13.65%
Yorkshire +88 1 - -
North of England +39 1 - -
Backtesting
UK

Backtesting
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 (3.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
1 2 (7.14%) WhatsApp
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Tick Data
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
1 4 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Front Office
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Games
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 14 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 5 (17.86%) C++ Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Database Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Junior
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.57%) DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Market Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Market Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) NumPy
1 3 (10.71%) Pandas
2 2 (7.14%) React
2 2 (7.14%) STL
3 1 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.57%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (46.43%) Hedge funds
3 10 (35.71%) Equities
4 8 (28.57%) Fixed Income
5 5 (17.86%) Client/Server
6 2 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (7.14%) FPGA
7 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
7 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 16 (57.14%) Mathematics
3 11 (39.29%) Algorithmic Trading
3 11 (39.29%) Concurrent Programming
3 11 (39.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Multithreading
3 11 (39.29%) Physics
4 9 (32.14%) Low Latency
4 9 (32.14%) Memory Management
5 7 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Systematic Trading
5 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.86%) Data Management
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Order Management
8 4 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) C++
3 7 (25.00%) Java
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 10 (35.71%) Master's Degree
3 7 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (21.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Dataiku