Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 659 612 943
Rank change year-on-year -47 +331 -316
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 238 395 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.39% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 162 363 216
10th Percentile £27,000 £54,000 £66,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £108,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £150,000 £132,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -57.04% -10.00% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the UK 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
England -33 205 £120,000 +20.00% 61
London -24 165 £130,000 +30.00% 60
Work from Home +12 76 £120,000 +45.20% 11
UK excluding London +76 66 £29,000 -57.04% 1
Scotland -39 27 £75,000 +11.11%
North of England - 20 £29,000 -
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
Midlands +24 17 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands - 16 - - 1
South East - 2 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £50,000 -

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (15.13%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.92%) BlazeMeter
2 16 (6.72%) AWS
3 3 (1.26%) Azure
3 3 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) DHCP
2 1 (0.42%) DNS
2 1 (0.42%) LAN
2 1 (0.42%) SNMP
2 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.04%) MySQL
2 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.26%) KDB
4 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.42%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (10.92%) JMeter
2 18 (7.56%) Maven
3 17 (7.14%) JIRA
4 13 (5.46%) Git
5 10 (4.20%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.78%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.78%) Gradle
6 9 (3.78%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.10%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.26%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.42%) Moq
10 1 (0.42%) NUnit
General
1 103 (43.28%) Front Office
2 100 (42.02%) Social Skills
3 97 (40.76%) Finance
4 66 (27.73%) Banking
5 56 (23.53%) Investment Banking
6 37 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (10.92%) Law
7 26 (10.92%) Marketing
8 20 (8.40%) Legal
8 20 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (7.14%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (41.60%) Developer
2 54 (22.69%) Java Developer
3 52 (21.85%) Analyst
4 47 (19.75%) Software Engineer
5 40 (16.81%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 39 (16.39%) Java Engineer
6 39 (16.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 32 (13.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (8.82%) Governance Analyst
8 21 (8.82%) Senior
9 17 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
9 17 (7.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 17 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
10 15 (6.30%) Business Analyst
11 13 (5.46%) Electronic Trading Support
11 13 (5.46%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.62%) Java Quantitative Developer
13 11 (4.62%) Support Analyst
14 10 (4.20%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.87%) React
2 32 (13.45%) Spring
3 31 (13.03%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (10.08%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.46%) REST
6 12 (5.04%) .NET
7 10 (4.20%) Kafka
8 9 (3.78%) Ext JS
9 6 (2.52%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.52%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.68%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.68%) Middleware
10 4 (1.68%) Rendezvous
11 2 (0.84%) FpML
11 2 (0.84%) Murex MxML
11 2 (0.84%) Playwright
12 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.42%) Blazor
12 1 (0.42%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.59%) Fixed Income
2 46 (19.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 26 (10.92%) Equities
3 26 (10.92%) Market Risk
4 24 (10.08%) Hedge funds
5 21 (8.82%) Management Information System
6 20 (8.40%) Reinsurance
7 17 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (6.72%) Taxonomies
9 15 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (4.62%) Client/Server
12 8 (3.36%) Product Ownership
13 5 (2.10%) Algorithms
13 5 (2.10%) Derivative
13 5 (2.10%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
15 2 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (0.84%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.50%) Linux
2 9 (3.78%) Unix
3 6 (2.52%) Windows
4 5 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (36.55%) Agile
2 61 (25.63%) Low Latency
3 57 (23.95%) TDD
4 54 (22.69%) Software Engineering
5 49 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (19.75%) Multithreading
7 43 (18.07%) Microservices
8 41 (17.23%) Test Automation
9 38 (15.97%) Computer Science
10 37 (15.55%) Algorithmic Trading
11 36 (15.13%) Decision-Making
12 33 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
13 31 (13.03%) CI/CD
13 31 (13.03%) Risk Management
14 29 (12.18%) BDD
14 29 (12.18%) SDLC
15 27 (11.34%) Data Management
16 26 (10.92%) Customer Service
16 26 (10.92%) OO
16 26 (10.92%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 128 (53.78%) Java
2 55 (23.11%) SQL
3 36 (15.13%) Python
4 23 (9.66%) C#
5 16 (6.72%) Rust
6 15 (6.30%) C++
7 10 (4.20%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.94%) Perl
8 7 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (19.33%) Degree
2 20 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.10%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.62%) QA
2 6 (2.52%) SLA
3 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (5.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.94%) Ansible
3 3 (1.26%) Nmap
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.46%) Bloomberg
3 9 (3.78%) ION Trading
3 9 (3.78%) TOWER Software
4 7 (2.94%) FFastFill
4 7 (2.94%) Refinitiv
5 6 (2.52%) Murex
6 5 (2.10%) Oracle
7 4 (1.68%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.84%) Databricks
8 2 (0.84%) Sybase
9 1 (0.42%) F5
9 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.42%) Reuters
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) SAP
9 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow