Algorithmic Trading Jobs

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the UK.

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

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Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Find Job Vacancies
England	-80	327	£80,000	+10.34%	45
London	-40	325	£80,000	+10.34%	45
City of London	-25	83	£80,000	+18.51%	21
Canary Wharf	+4	7	£73,750	-7.81%
Docklands, London	+2	5	£72,500	-12.12%
Scotland	-3	3	£55,000	-10.56%
Edinburgh	-	3	£55,000	-
Glasgow	-	3	£55,000	-
South East	+1	2	£85,000	+47.82%
Oxford	-	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-
Surrey	-	1	£85,000	-
Camberley	-	1	£85,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Algorithmic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Algorithmic Trading.

1 368 (51.32%) Java 2 327 (45.61%) Front Office 3 320 (44.63%) Finance 4 278 (38.77%) Multithreading 5 213 (29.71%) Electronic Trading 6 195 (27.20%) Equities 6 195 (27.20%) OO 7 193 (26.92%) Hedge funds 8 189 (26.36%) Degree 9 182 (25.38%) Computer Science 10 181 (25.24%) UNIX 11 180 (25.10%) C# 12 163 (22.73%) C++ 13 155 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX) 14 129 (17.99%) TDD

15 126 (17.57%) Banking 16 124 (17.29%) Linux 17 119 (16.60%) Mathematics 18 112 (15.62%) QA 18 112 (15.62%) SQL 19 108 (15.06%) Fixed Income 20 91 (12.69%) Python 21 90 (12.55%) .NET 22 86 (11.99%) Perl 22 86 (11.99%) Derivative 23 85 (11.85%) Windows 24 82 (11.44%) Subversion 25 74 (10.32%) Eclipse 26 73 (10.18%) UML 27 72 (10.04%) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Algorithmic Trading also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Algorithmic Trading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 90 (12.55%) .NET 2 49 (6.834%) WPF 3 36 (5.021%) WinForms 4 29 (4.045%) FIX Protocol 5 24 (3.347%) WCF 5 24 (3.347%) Spring 6 22 (3.068%) STL 6 22 (3.068%) XML 6 22 (3.068%) Boost C++ Libraries 7 15 (2.092%) Middleware 8 13 (1.813%) J2SE 9 12 (1.674%) Hibernate 9 12 (1.674%) Swing 10 11 (1.534%) Java SE 11 10 (1.395%) Silverlight 11 10 (1.395%) JMS 11 10 (1.395%) HTML 12 6 (0.837%) CSS 12 6 (0.837%) Lucene 12 6 (0.837%) jQuery	Application Platforms 1 7 (0.976%) GemFire 2 6 (0.837%) Apache Pig 2 6 (0.837%) SharePoint 3 4 (0.558%) TIBCO EMS 4 2 (0.279%) Mathematica 4 2 (0.279%) Confluence 5 1 (0.139%) IIS 5 1 (0.139%) Oracle Coherence
Applications 1 15 (2.092%) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (0.279%) ION MarketView 2 1 (0.139%) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 50 (6.974%) TCP/IP 2 32 (4.463%) HTTP 3 15 (2.092%) Firewall 4 14 (1.953%) Network Security 4 14 (1.953%) SAN 5 6 (0.837%) NAS 5 6 (0.837%) Cisco IOS 6 2 (0.279%) Internet 7 1 (0.139%) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 57 (7.950%) KDB 2 38 (5.300%) SQL Server 3 24 (3.347%) Big Data 4 15 (2.092%) Hadoop 5 11 (1.534%) NoSQL 5 11 (1.534%) SQL Server 2008 6 9 (1.255%) MongoDB 7 8 (1.116%) SQL Server 2012 8 7 (0.976%) RDBMS 9 5 (0.697%) Hazelcast 10 4 (0.558%) Apache Cassandra 11 2 (0.279%) Data Mining 12 1 (0.139%) MySQL 12 1 (0.139%) Oracle Reports 12 1 (0.139%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 82 (11.44%) Subversion 2 74 (10.32%) Eclipse 3 11 (1.534%) QuickTest Pro 3 11 (1.534%) JIRA 4 9 (1.255%) Selenium 4 9 (1.255%) Maven 4 9 (1.255%) TestComplete 4 9 (1.255%) LoadRunner 4 9 (1.255%) WinRunner 5 8 (1.116%) Git (software) 6 6 (0.837%) Ant 7 5 (0.697%) JUnit 8 4 (0.558%) LLVM 9 3 (0.418%) Jenkins 10 2 (0.279%) Cucumber 10 2 (0.279%) NUnit 10 2 (0.279%) CruiseControl 10 2 (0.279%) TeamCity 11 1 (0.139%) Team Foundation Server 11 1 (0.139%) Atlassian Bamboo	General 1 327 (45.61%) Front Office 2 320 (44.63%) Finance 3 126 (17.57%) Banking 4 63 (8.787%) Investment Banking 5 27 (3.766%) Telecoms 6 24 (3.347%) Games 7 11 (1.534%) Back Office 8 8 (1.116%) Automotive 9 5 (0.697%) Retail 9 5 (0.697%) Financial Institution 10 2 (0.279%) Retail Banking 10 2 (0.279%) Marketing 11 1 (0.139%) Advertising
Job Titles 1 475 (66.25%) Developer 2 269 (37.52%) Java Developer 3 96 (13.39%) Analyst 4 92 (12.83%) C# Developer 5 71 (9.902%) Senior Developer 6 66 (9.205%) C++ Developer 7 60 (8.368%) Quantitative Developer 8 51 (7.113%) Applications Support 9 42 (5.858%) Support Analyst 10 26 (3.626%) Junior 10 26 (3.626%) C# .NET Developer 11 25 (3.487%) Senior C++ Developer 12 24 (3.347%) Programmer 13 23 (3.208%) C++ Quantitative Developer 14 21 (2.929%) Senior Java Developer 15 20 (2.789%) Senior C# Developer 15 20 (2.789%) Applications Support Analyst 16 17 (2.371%) Python Developer 17 16 (2.232%) C++/Java Developer 17 16 (2.232%) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 195 (27.20%) Equities 2 193 (26.92%) Hedge funds 3 182 (25.38%) Computer Science 4 155 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 119 (16.60%) Mathematics 6 108 (15.06%) Fixed Income 7 86 (11.99%) Derivative 8 40 (5.579%) Physics 9 30 (4.184%) Open Source 10 22 (3.068%) Equity Derivative 11 9 (1.255%) Statistics 11 9 (1.255%) Management Information System 11 9 (1.255%) Replication 11 9 (1.255%) Machine Learning 11 9 (1.255%) Market Risk 12 6 (0.837%) Visualisation 12 6 (0.837%) Artificial Intelligence 12 6 (0.837%) Neural Network 13 5 (0.697%) Grid Computing 13 5 (0.697%) Online Games
Operating Systems 1 181 (25.24%) UNIX 2 124 (17.29%) Linux 3 85 (11.85%) Windows 4 6 (0.837%) Solaris 5 3 (0.418%) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (0.139%) Windows 7 6 1 (0.139%) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.139%) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 278 (38.77%) Multithreading 2 213 (29.71%) Electronic Trading 3 195 (27.20%) OO 4 129 (17.99%) TDD 5 73 (10.18%) UML 6 72 (10.04%) Agile Software Development 7 33 (4.603%) Analytics 8 27 (3.766%) Risk Management 9 22 (3.068%) Automated Testing 10 20 (2.789%) Project Management 11 17 (2.371%) Test Automation 12 14 (1.953%) BDD 12 14 (1.953%) Automation Testing 13 13 (1.813%) Data Analysis 14 12 (1.674%) Business Analysis 14 12 (1.674%) Asset Management 15 11 (1.534%) Scrum 16 9 (1.255%) Software Engineering 16 9 (1.255%) E-Commerce 16 9 (1.255%) Memory Management
Programming Languages 1 368 (51.32%) Java 2 180 (25.10%) C# 3 163 (22.73%) C++ 4 112 (15.62%) SQL 5 91 (12.69%) Python 6 86 (11.99%) Perl 7 24 (3.347%) F# 8 23 (3.208%) Shell Script 9 22 (3.068%) PowerShell 10 20 (2.789%) Scala 11 18 (2.510%) Bash shell 11 18 (2.510%) Clojure 12 17 (2.371%) C 13 15 (2.092%) VBScript 14 13 (1.813%) VBA 14 13 (1.813%) Haskell 15 12 (1.674%) Erlang 16 9 (1.255%) JavaScript 17 8 (1.116%) T-SQL 18 6 (0.837%) Ruby	Qualifications 1 189 (26.36%) Degree 2 25 (3.487%) PhD 3 6 (0.837%) ISEB 4 5 (0.697%) ISTQB 5 3 (0.418%) Cisco Certification 5 3 (0.418%) CCNP 5 3 (0.418%) CCNA 6 2 (0.279%) CISSP 6 2 (0.279%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 112 (15.62%) QA	System Software 1 4 (0.558%) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.139%) Nagios 1 1 (0.139%) WMI 1 1 (0.139%) SCCM	Vendors 1 35 (4.881%) Sybase 2 32 (4.463%) TIBCO 3 28 (3.905%) Oracle 4 24 (3.347%) Microsoft 5 20 (2.789%) Fidessa 6 15 (2.092%) Cisco 7 11 (1.534%) 29West 8 10 (1.395%) Sun 8 10 (1.395%) Reuters 9 9 (1.255%) Bloomberg 10 7 (0.976%) Facebook 10 7 (0.976%) DataSynapse 11 6 (0.837%) Razor Risk 12 5 (0.697%) Red Hat 12 5 (0.697%) Google 12 5 (0.697%) HP 13 4 (0.558%) EasyScreen 13 4 (0.558%) CQG 13 4 (0.558%) FFastFill 14 3 (0.418%) Patsystems