Automated Trading Job Trends in the City of London

Automated Trading
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 165 166
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 +125
Permanent jobs citing Automated Trading 1 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.062% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £63,500 £84,750
25th Percentile £92,500 £65,000 £115,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £132,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -43.40% +39.47%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £165,000
90th Percentile - £86,500 £187,500
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £132,500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -43.40% +39.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Automated 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,549 2,581 2,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.68% 94.03% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 1,690 2,616
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Automated Trading relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Automated Trading job vacancy trend in the City of London

Automated Trading
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Automated Trading.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Automated Trading

Automated Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA