Systematic Trading Jobs in the City of London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Systematic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systematic 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 139 177 224
Rank change year-on-year +38 +47 +57
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 2 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.099% 0.090% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.098% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £159,250 £63,000 £60,625
25th Percentile £161,875 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £172,500 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.50% +8.11% -31.48%
75th Percentile £181,875 £116,250 £119,375
90th Percentile £183,750 £123,000 £137,500
Central London median annual salary £135,000 £100,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% +8.11% -2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Systematic 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%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in the City of London

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in the City of London

Systematic 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python