Automated Trading Jobs in England

Automated Trading
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Automated Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automated Trading over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 706 859
Rank change year-on-year +36 +153 +202
Permanent jobs citing Automated Trading 13 136 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.15% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.18% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 8 122 46
10th Percentile £87,000 £73,750 -
25th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -10.59%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £137,500 £136,250 £138,125
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in England

Automated Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Automated Trading in England

Automated Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automated Trading in England

Automated 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 Automated Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 -8 8 £120,000 +9.09% 111
South East - 3 £105,000 - 28
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Automated Trading
UK

Automated 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 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) GemFire
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (23.08%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (23.08%) Redis
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Pinecone
2 2 (15.38%) Weaviate
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Front Office
3 4 (30.77%) Law
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Advertising
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Server Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Server Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Strategist
4 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office RAD Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) RAD Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
1 5 (38.46%) NumPy
1 5 (38.46%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Django
3 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 2 (15.38%) Flask
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
3 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
3 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (23.08%) Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Equities
2 3 (23.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (38.46%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Business Development
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
5 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) Market Making
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) C++
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Solace
1 3 (23.08%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Refinitiv