Algorithmic Trading Jobs in England

Algo Trading
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Algorithmic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 745 778
Rank change year-on-year +139 +33 +74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 64 92 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 48 64 132
10th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £137,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +27.91% -2.27%
75th Percentile £165,000 £155,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £175,500 £164,250 £180,000
UK median annual salary £140,000 £137,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +34.15% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Algorithmic 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,071 73,314 88,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.80% 85.78% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,007 54,025 52,111
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Algorithmic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Algorithmic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in England.

Salary trend for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithmic Trading in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithmic Trading in England

Algorithmic Trading
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithmic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +71 58 £140,000 - 155
North West - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
South East +95 2 - - 50
Algorithmic Trading
UK

Algorithmic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) GemFire
3 1 (1.56%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
2 3 (4.69%) SaaS
3 2 (3.13%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) KDB
2 4 (6.25%) Tick Data
3 3 (4.69%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (4.69%) InterSystems Cache
3 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.69%) Redis
3 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.56%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) Gradle
3 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 3 (4.69%) MSTest
3 3 (4.69%) NUnit
3 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
3 3 (4.69%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (53.13%) Finance
2 22 (34.38%) Front Office
3 18 (28.13%) Banking
4 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Investment Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (9.38%) Law
8 4 (6.25%) Advertising
9 2 (3.13%) Back Office
10 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (71.88%) Developer
2 21 (32.81%) Quantitative Developer
3 14 (21.88%) Java Developer
4 10 (15.63%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 9 (14.06%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 7 (10.94%) C++ Developer
7 5 (7.81%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior
8 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 3 (4.69%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.69%) Java Server Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Server Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
10 2 (3.13%) KDB Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Kafka
2 3 (4.69%) .NET
2 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.69%) CSS
2 3 (4.69%) CSS3
2 3 (4.69%) Electron
2 3 (4.69%) Highcharts JS
2 3 (4.69%) HTML
2 3 (4.69%) HTML5
2 3 (4.69%) JSON
2 3 (4.69%) LESS
2 3 (4.69%) Middleware
2 3 (4.69%) NgRx
2 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (4.69%) Reactive Extensions
2 3 (4.69%) REST
2 3 (4.69%) RxJS
2 3 (4.69%) Spring
2 3 (4.69%) WPF
3 1 (1.56%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (51.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (48.44%) Algorithms
3 27 (42.19%) Equities
4 14 (21.88%) Fixed Income
5 10 (15.63%) Derivative
5 10 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (9.38%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (9.38%) Hedge funds
7 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
7 5 (7.81%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (4.69%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Low Latency
2 22 (34.38%) Electronic Trading
3 16 (25.00%) Physics
4 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.88%) Multithreading
6 13 (20.31%) Mathematics
6 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.75%) Backtesting
7 12 (18.75%) Quantitative Research
7 12 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 12 (18.75%) TDD
7 12 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
8 11 (17.19%) Concurrent Programming
8 11 (17.19%) OO
9 10 (15.63%) Market Making
9 10 (15.63%) Memory Management
9 10 (15.63%) OOP
10 9 (14.06%) BDD
10 9 (14.06%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Java
2 18 (28.13%) Python
3 17 (26.56%) C++
4 16 (25.00%) SQL
5 7 (10.94%) C#
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.13%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.13%) R
8 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 4 (6.25%) PhD
3 1 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (3.13%) Nagios
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) Solace
2 3 (4.69%) TIBCO
3 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk