Electronic Trading Jobs in the City of London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 144 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +43
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 17 36 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.84% 1.08% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.17% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 15 27 63
10th Percentile - £91,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,000 £120,000 £120,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -0.41% +14.76%
75th Percentile £138,750 £151,875 £146,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £158,500 £162,500
Central London median annual salary £99,000 £120,000 £120,250
% change year-on-year -17.50% -0.21% +14.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 3,069 4,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.00% 92.02% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 2,415 3,653
10th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £43,162
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,250 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in the City of London.

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the City of London

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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