Electronic Trading Jobs in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 319 602
Rank change year-on-year -24 +283 -259
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 165 379 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 1.06% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.11% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 133 349 204
10th Percentile £80,000 £53,500 £65,600
25th Percentile £97,500 £70,000 £84,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £157,500 £132,500 £127,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £100,000 £108,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.05% +8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,454 34,168 63,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.39% 95.40% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15,999 24,428 34,404
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in London.

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +31 44 £120,000 +1.05% 1
East London - 8 £150,000 -
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (1.82%) Azure
2 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) DHCP
1 1 (0.61%) DNS
1 1 (0.61%) LAN
1 1 (0.61%) SNMP
1 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.27%) MySQL
2 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.82%) KDB
4 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.88%) Git
2 9 (5.45%) Maven
3 5 (3.03%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
5 3 (1.82%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.21%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
General
1 97 (58.79%) Front Office
2 65 (39.39%) Finance
3 64 (38.79%) Banking
4 54 (32.73%) Investment Banking
5 47 (28.48%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.88%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Back Office
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (58.18%) Developer
2 53 (32.12%) Java Developer
3 40 (24.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 32 (19.39%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 29 (17.58%) Analyst
6 21 (12.73%) Software Engineer
7 19 (11.52%) Senior
8 17 (10.30%) Quantitative Developer
9 14 (8.48%) Business Analyst
10 13 (7.88%) Java Engineer
10 13 (7.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (7.27%) Senior Developer
11 12 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.67%) Java Quantitative Developer
13 9 (5.45%) Electronic Trading Support
13 9 (5.45%) Lead
13 9 (5.45%) Support Analyst
14 8 (4.85%) Applications Support
14 8 (4.85%) Lead Developer
15 7 (4.24%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.76%) FIX Protocol
2 23 (13.94%) Spring
3 15 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.88%) REST
5 10 (6.06%) .NET
5 10 (6.06%) Kafka
6 7 (4.24%) React
7 6 (3.64%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.03%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.42%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.42%) Middleware
9 4 (2.42%) Rendezvous
10 2 (1.21%) FpML
10 2 (1.21%) Murex MxML
10 2 (1.21%) Playwright
11 1 (0.61%) CSS
11 1 (0.61%) HTML
11 1 (0.61%) HTML5
11 1 (0.61%) LDAP
11 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.09%) Fixed Income
2 39 (23.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (14.55%) Hedge funds
4 22 (13.33%) Equities
5 15 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (7.88%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (6.67%) Client/Server
8 7 (4.24%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.03%) Algorithms
9 5 (3.03%) Derivative
9 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.21%) FPGA
11 2 (1.21%) VHDL
11 2 (1.21%) VLSI
12 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.15%) Linux
2 9 (5.45%) Unix
3 6 (3.64%) Windows
4 5 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.61%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.36%) Low Latency
2 59 (35.76%) Agile
3 45 (27.27%) Multithreading
4 37 (22.42%) Algorithmic Trading
5 34 (20.61%) Computer Science
6 31 (18.79%) TDD
7 28 (16.97%) Software Engineering
8 25 (15.15%) OO
9 23 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (13.33%) High-Frequency Trading
11 19 (11.52%) Market Making
12 16 (9.70%) Automated Trading
12 16 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
12 16 (9.70%) Microservices
13 15 (9.09%) DevOps
14 14 (8.48%) Design Patterns
14 14 (8.48%) Test Automation
15 12 (7.27%) Mathematics
15 12 (7.27%) Requirements Gathering
16 11 (6.67%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (57.58%) Java
2 45 (27.27%) SQL
3 35 (21.21%) Python
4 21 (12.73%) C#
5 16 (9.70%) Rust
6 15 (9.09%) C++
7 7 (4.24%) Perl
7 7 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) QA
1 2 (1.21%) SLA
2 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.24%) Ansible
3 3 (1.82%) Nmap
4 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (7.88%) Bloomberg
2 9 (5.45%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.24%) FFastFill
3 7 (4.24%) Refinitiv
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle
4 4 (2.42%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.82%) Murex
6 2 (1.21%) Databricks
6 2 (1.21%) Sybase
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) Reuters
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow