Electronic Trading Jobs in Central London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 161 182
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 +39
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 17 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.68% 0.93% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.01% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 66
10th Percentile - £91,250 £77,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,000 £120,000 £120,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -0.21% +14.52%
75th Percentile £138,750 £147,500 £145,000
90th Percentile £157,500 £157,500 £162,500
London median annual salary £110,000 £140,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Electronic Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,406 3,482 4,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.43% 92.12% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 2,676 4,014
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in Central London

Electronic Trading
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
City of London +26 17 £99,000 -17.50% 3
Electronic Trading
London

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) npm
2 1 (5.88%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) KDB
2 1 (5.88%) Kdb+
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Gradle
1 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 12 (70.59%) Front Office
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Front Office Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
7 1 (5.88%) C++ Developer
7 1 (5.88%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
7 1 (5.88%) KDB Developer
7 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Fixed Income
2 6 (35.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (35.29%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
3 3 (17.65%) Equities
4 2 (11.76%) Derivative
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Low Latency
2 7 (41.18%) Multithreading
3 5 (29.41%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (29.41%) Distributed Cache
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (29.41%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Curve Construction
6 2 (11.76%) Market Making
6 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
6 2 (11.76%) Quantitative Finance
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) C++
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Solace
2 1 (5.88%) Murex