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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 317 609
Rank change year-on-year -34 +292 -264
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 157 370 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.67% 1.07% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.13% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 124 338 206
10th Percentile £67,750 £53,375 £66,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £70,735 £84,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £100,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £157,500 £133,438 £130,000
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 21,393 32,863 65,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.19% 95.33% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15,920 23,589 34,129
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,037 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +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 7 May 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 7 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
Central London +26 39 £120,000 -0.21% 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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.19%) AWS
2 1 (0.64%) Azure
2 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) DHCP
1 1 (0.64%) DNS
1 1 (0.64%) LAN
1 1 (0.64%) SNMP
1 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) MySQL
2 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.91%) KDB
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Maven
3 5 (3.18%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.91%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.27%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 97 (61.78%) Front Office
2 67 (42.68%) Banking
3 60 (38.22%) Finance
4 57 (36.31%) Investment Banking
5 48 (30.57%) Social Skills
6 11 (7.01%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Back Office
8 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (60.51%) Developer
2 55 (35.03%) Java Developer
3 42 (26.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 34 (21.66%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Analyst
6 20 (12.74%) Software Engineer
7 17 (10.83%) Quantitative Developer
7 17 (10.83%) Senior
8 13 (8.28%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) Business Analyst
9 12 (7.64%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.01%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 10 (6.37%) Lead
12 9 (5.73%) Electronic Trading Support
12 9 (5.73%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.10%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.46%) Backend Developer
14 7 (4.46%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.65%) Spring
2 19 (12.10%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (9.55%) Spring Boot
4 13 (8.28%) REST
5 10 (6.37%) Kafka
6 8 (5.10%) .NET
7 7 (4.46%) React
8 6 (3.82%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.55%) Middleware
10 4 (2.55%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.27%) Playwright
12 1 (0.64%) CSS
12 1 (0.64%) HTML
12 1 (0.64%) HTML5
12 1 (0.64%) LDAP
12 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (29.30%) Fixed Income
2 36 (22.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (13.38%) Hedge funds
4 20 (12.74%) Equities
5 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (8.28%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (7.01%) Client/Server
8 6 (3.82%) Algorithms
9 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.91%) Derivative
10 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.27%) FPGA
11 2 (1.27%) VHDL
11 2 (1.27%) VLSI
12 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.56%) Linux
2 10 (6.37%) Unix
3 6 (3.82%) Windows
4 5 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.13%) Low Latency
2 58 (36.94%) Agile
3 48 (30.57%) Multithreading
4 34 (21.66%) Algorithmic Trading
5 32 (20.38%) TDD
6 31 (19.75%) Computer Science
7 26 (16.56%) OO
7 26 (16.56%) Software Engineering
8 23 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.01%) High-Frequency Trading
10 19 (12.10%) Market Making
11 17 (10.83%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (9.55%) Test Automation
13 14 (8.92%) Automated Trading
13 14 (8.92%) Design Patterns
13 14 (8.92%) DevOps
13 14 (8.92%) Microservices
14 13 (8.28%) Mathematics
15 11 (7.01%) Data Management
16 10 (6.37%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 91 (57.96%) Java
2 44 (28.03%) SQL
3 32 (20.38%) Python
4 20 (12.74%) C#
5 17 (10.83%) Rust
6 13 (8.28%) C++
7 7 (4.46%) Perl
7 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Degree
2 17 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) QA
1 2 (1.27%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.91%) Nmap
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Bloomberg
2 9 (5.73%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.46%) FFastFill
3 7 (4.46%) Refinitiv
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.27%) Databricks
5 2 (1.27%) Sybase
6 1 (0.64%) F5
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.64%) Murex
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.64%) Reuters
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow