High-Frequency Trading Jobs in Central London

High-Frequency Trading
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 180 208
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +65
Permanent jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 4 13 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% 0.35% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.38% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 28
10th Percentile £101,750 £66,500 -
25th Percentile £104,375 £75,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £125,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +23.46% -1.22%
75th Percentile £126,875 £147,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,250 - -
London median annual salary £82,500 £135,000 £101,250
% change year-on-year -38.89% +33.33% -1.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

High-Frequency 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 2,410 3,466 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.48% 92.18% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 2,677 4,047
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 £70,555 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in Central London

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for High-Frequency Trading in Central London

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 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 +27 3 £125,000 - 5
High-Frequency Trading
London

High-Frequency 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) gRPC
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) B2C
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Metaprogramming
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Investing
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform