Backtesting Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backtesting
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 737 849
Rank change year-on-year -18 +112 -
Permanent jobs citing Backtesting 5 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.023% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.024% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £35,733 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,570 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.80% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £103,911 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backtesting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backtesting in the UK excluding London

Backtesting
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backtesting in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backtesting in the UK excluding London

Backtesting
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West -23 4 £85,000 -13.65%
Yorkshire +76 1 - -
North of England +36 1 - -
Backtesting
UK

Backtesting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Market Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Market Risk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Econometric Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft