Electronic Trading Developer Jobs in England

Electronic Trading Developer
UK > England

The median Electronic Trading Developer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 805 886
Rank change year-on-year +135 +81 +233
Permanent jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 25 42 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.049% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.052% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 25 30 47
10th Percentile £85,000 £129,875 £82,200
25th Percentile £90,000 £132,500 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £150,000 £145,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +34.88%
75th Percentile £162,500 £162,500 £157,500
90th Percentile £165,500 £167,500 £167,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £150,000 £145,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +34.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,533 81,192 82,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 94.49% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,433 60,582 52,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,355 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in England

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +83 25 £110,000 -26.67% 11
Electronic Trading Developer
UK

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Electronic Trading Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 23 (92.00%) Java
2 23 (92.00%) Front Office
3 16 (64.00%) Low Latency
4 13 (52.00%) TDD
5 12 (48.00%) Banking
6 11 (44.00%) AWS
6 11 (44.00%) Re-Platforming
7 10 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
7 10 (40.00%) SQL
7 10 (40.00%) Finance
8 9 (36.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (36.00%) Multithreading
8 9 (36.00%) Equities
8 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
8 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
9 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (32.00%) Gradle
9 8 (32.00%) Algorithms
9 8 (32.00%) Linux
10 7 (28.00%) Fixed Income
10 7 (28.00%) Agile
10 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (28.00%) Git
10 7 (28.00%) Concurrent Programming
10 7 (28.00%) BDD
10 7 (28.00%) Quantitative Research
11 6 (24.00%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Gradle
2 7 (28.00%) Git
General
1 23 (92.00%) Front Office
2 12 (48.00%) Banking
3 10 (40.00%) Finance
4 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Equities
1 9 (36.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (28.00%) Fixed Income
4 6 (24.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Derivative
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 16 (64.00%) Low Latency
3 13 (52.00%) TDD
4 11 (44.00%) Re-Platforming
5 10 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 9 (36.00%) Multithreading
6 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (28.00%) Agile
8 7 (28.00%) BDD
8 7 (28.00%) Concurrent Programming
8 7 (28.00%) Quantitative Research
8 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
10 5 (20.00%) Distributed Cache
10 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (8.00%) Order Management
12 1 (4.00%) Architecture Roadmap
12 1 (4.00%) Front End Development
12 1 (4.00%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Solace
2 1 (4.00%) ION Trading