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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 332 598
Rank change year-on-year -13 +266 -270
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 160 384 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.68% 1.05% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.10% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 131 357 205
10th Percentile £80,000 £54,500 £65,800
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 £110,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 21,414 35,001 62,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.57% 95.46% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 16,033 24,908 34,596
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +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 19 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 19 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 +55 44 £120,000 +9.09% 3
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 (1.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.13%) AWS
2 3 (1.88%) Azure
2 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) MySQL
2 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.88%) KDB
4 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Git
2 9 (5.63%) Maven
3 5 (3.13%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.88%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.88%) JIRA
5 2 (1.25%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) Moq
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
General
1 96 (60.00%) Front Office
2 63 (39.38%) Banking
3 60 (37.50%) Finance
4 53 (33.13%) Investment Banking
5 45 (28.13%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.13%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (58.13%) Developer
2 52 (32.50%) Java Developer
3 40 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 32 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 28 (17.50%) Analyst
6 22 (13.75%) Software Engineer
7 19 (11.88%) Senior
8 16 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
9 14 (8.75%) Business Analyst
10 13 (8.13%) Java Engineer
10 13 (8.13%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (6.88%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Applications Support
12 8 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Support
12 8 (5.00%) Support Analyst
13 7 (4.38%) Backend Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.25%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (13.75%) Spring
3 15 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 13 (8.13%) REST
5 11 (6.88%) .NET
6 10 (6.25%) Kafka
7 7 (4.38%) React
8 6 (3.75%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.13%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.50%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.50%) Middleware
10 4 (2.50%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.25%) FpML
11 2 (1.25%) Murex MxML
11 2 (1.25%) Playwright
12 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.63%) CSS
12 1 (0.63%) HTML
12 1 (0.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (30.00%) Fixed Income
2 37 (23.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 23 (14.38%) Hedge funds
4 22 (13.75%) Equities
5 14 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (6.88%) Client/Server
8 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.50%) Derivative
11 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.25%) FPGA
12 2 (1.25%) VHDL
12 2 (1.25%) VLSI
13 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Unix
3 6 (3.75%) Windows
4 5 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.63%) Agile
1 57 (35.63%) Low Latency
2 43 (26.88%) Multithreading
3 37 (23.13%) Algorithmic Trading
4 32 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 29 (18.13%) TDD
6 28 (17.50%) Software Engineering
7 25 (15.63%) OO
8 22 (13.75%) High-Frequency Trading
9 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.88%) Market Making
11 16 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
11 16 (10.00%) Microservices
12 15 (9.38%) Automated Trading
13 14 (8.75%) Design Patterns
13 14 (8.75%) DevOps
14 13 (8.13%) Test Automation
15 12 (7.50%) Mathematics
15 12 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
16 11 (6.88%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (56.88%) Java
2 43 (26.88%) SQL
3 32 (20.00%) Python
4 21 (13.13%) C#
5 15 (9.38%) Rust
6 14 (8.75%) C++
7 7 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.13%) Perl
9 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Degree
2 19 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.25%) QA
1 2 (1.25%) SLA
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (8.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (1.88%) Nmap
Vendors
1 12 (7.50%) Bloomberg
2 9 (5.63%) ION Trading
3 6 (3.75%) FFastFill
3 6 (3.75%) Refinitiv
4 4 (2.50%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.88%) Murex
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) Databricks
6 2 (1.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft