Proprietary Trading Jobs in the City of London

Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Proprietary Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Proprietary Trading over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 171 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Permanent jobs citing Proprietary Trading 6 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £117,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% - -
Central London median annual salary £140,000 £117,500 -
% change year-on-year +19.15% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Proprietary 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 1,986 3,080 4,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.99% 92.02% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 2,434 3,685
10th Percentile £42,450 £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 £96,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £113,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Proprietary Trading in the City of London

Proprietary Trading
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Proprietary Trading in the City of London

Proprietary 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Hazelcast
1 1 (16.67%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithmic Trading
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
1 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOP
1 4 (66.67%) Physics
1 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
1 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Cache
2 1 (16.67%) Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) F#
2 1 (16.67%) Haskell
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 4 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft