Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Proprietary Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Proprietary Trading 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 852 977 1172
Rank change year-on-year +125 +195 -289
Permanent jobs citing Proprietary Trading 36 18 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.018% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.019% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 33 9 27
10th Percentile £66,250 £69,500 £102,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 £170,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -51.47% +126.67%
75th Percentile £172,500 £150,000 £185,000
90th Percentile £189,500 £197,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proprietary 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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proprietary Trading over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proprietary Trading within the UK 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
London +142 36 £110,000 +33.33% 44
England +97 36 £110,000 +33.33% 44
Work from Home +70 8 £85,000 +3.03% 6

Proprietary 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 2 (5.56%) Ethereum
1 2 (5.56%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (5.56%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (83.33%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Quantitative Developer
3 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 11 (30.56%) Senior Developer
4 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
5 9 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Junior
8 2 (5.56%) Junior Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Junior Quantitative Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead Full Stack Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Rust Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Rust Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (8.33%) Spring
2 3 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.56%) Django
3 2 (5.56%) Flask
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) React
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) Vue
3 2 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.78%) NumPy
4 1 (2.78%) Pandas
4 1 (2.78%) SciPy
4 1 (2.78%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Equities
1 11 (30.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (19.44%) Hedge funds
3 4 (11.11%) Derivative
4 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Low Latency
1 13 (36.11%) Quantitative Research
2 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
3 7 (19.44%) Fintech
3 7 (19.44%) Quantitative Investing
4 6 (16.67%) Cryptocurrency
4 6 (16.67%) High-Frequency Trading
5 5 (13.89%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Market Making
7 3 (8.33%) Backtesting
7 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.33%) Data Science
7 3 (8.33%) Microservices
7 3 (8.33%) Observability
7 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.33%) Prototyping
7 3 (8.33%) SDLC
7 3 (8.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 16 (44.44%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) C++
4 4 (11.11%) Rust
5 3 (8.33%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) C
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) PhD
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft