Systematic Trading Jobs in England

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Systematic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 894 1072
Rank change year-on-year +90 +178 -237
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 28 62 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.066% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.069% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 25 55 41
10th Percentile £65,850 £75,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £145,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +26.09% +64.29%
75th Percentile £142,500 £190,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £159,250 £250,000 -
UK median annual salary £125,000 £145,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +26.09% +64.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systematic 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 72,854 89,915 124,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.97% 95.66% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 53,893 52,961 73,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,299
25th Percentile £39,750 £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 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +126 28 £125,000 -13.79% 44
Systematic Trading
UK

Systematic 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Tick Data
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Front Office
4 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Junior
6 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.57%) React Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Hedge funds
2 8 (28.57%) Client/Server
3 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
6 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 7 (25.00%) Backtesting
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 6 (21.43%) High Availability
3 6 (21.43%) Mathematics
3 6 (21.43%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 4 (14.29%) Order Management
5 4 (14.29%) Physics
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.71%) Change Management
6 3 (10.71%) Fintech
6 3 (10.71%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Trading
6 3 (10.71%) SDLC
7 2 (7.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
2 5 (17.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat