Electronic Trading Jobs in England

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 690 558
Rank change year-on-year +98 -132 +310
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 99 175 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 55 132 340
10th Percentile £67,500 £27,000 £60,875
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £136,563
90th Percentile £162,500 £162,500 £157,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Electronic 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 45,849 78,971 78,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.16% 82.62% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,109 56,258 48,147
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,383 £34,308
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,775
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 £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in England

Electronic 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 Electronic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +43 90 £110,000 -15.38% 188
North of England +66 8 £57,500 +98.28% 3
North West - 7 - -
South East +92 1 - - 68
Yorkshire +45 1 £57,500 +98.28% 3
Electronic Trading
UK

Electronic 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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (4.04%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.16%) AWS
2 4 (4.04%) Azure
3 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.01%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) npm
4 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.01%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.04%) DHCP
2 4 (4.04%) DNS
2 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 4 (4.04%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.07%) KDB
3 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.06%) RDBMS
3 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.04%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (4.04%) Data Mining
5 4 (4.04%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (4.04%) Redis
6 2 (2.02%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Git
2 8 (8.08%) Gradle
3 3 (3.03%) webpack
4 2 (2.02%) Babel
5 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 63 (63.64%) Finance
2 53 (53.54%) Banking
2 53 (53.54%) Front Office
3 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
4 27 (27.27%) Law
5 24 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (11.11%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.03%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.01%) Advertising
10 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (49.49%) Developer
2 30 (30.30%) Java Developer
3 25 (25.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 22 (22.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 19 (19.19%) Front Office Developer
5 19 (19.19%) Software Engineer
6 17 (17.17%) Senior
7 15 (15.15%) Lead
8 13 (13.13%) Java Engineer
9 9 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (8.08%) Analyst
10 8 (8.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (8.08%) Python Engineer
10 8 (8.08%) Python Software Engineer
11 7 (7.07%) Senior Developer
12 6 (6.06%) Software Developer
13 5 (5.05%) C++ Developer
13 5 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (5.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 5 (5.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.24%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (13.13%) Kafka
3 12 (12.12%) Middleware
4 10 (10.10%) Spring
5 5 (5.05%) React
6 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.04%) Rendezvous
7 3 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.03%) RESTful
8 2 (2.02%) .NET
8 2 (2.02%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.02%) CSS
8 2 (2.02%) Jest
8 2 (2.02%) Material-UI
8 2 (2.02%) Web Services
8 2 (2.02%) XML
9 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 1 (1.01%) Node.js
9 1 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (35.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (21.21%) Equities
2 21 (21.21%) Fixed Income
3 20 (20.20%) Algorithms
4 16 (16.16%) Derivative
5 10 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (10.10%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (6.06%) Data Structures
8 4 (4.04%) Bitcoin
8 4 (4.04%) Eurex
9 3 (3.03%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.02%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
11 1 (1.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 1 (1.01%) State Machine
11 1 (1.01%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.25%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Unix
3 4 (4.04%) CentOS
3 4 (4.04%) Rocky
4 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.42%) Low Latency
2 36 (36.36%) Agile
3 35 (35.35%) Software Engineering
4 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (29.29%) SDLC
6 24 (24.24%) Algorithmic Trading
7 23 (23.23%) Multithreading
8 19 (19.19%) TDD
9 17 (17.17%) Computer Science
10 15 (15.15%) Risk Management
11 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
12 12 (12.12%) CI/CD
12 12 (12.12%) Creative Thinking
12 12 (12.12%) Re-Platforming
12 12 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
13 11 (11.11%) Fintech
13 11 (11.11%) Mathematics
13 11 (11.11%) Operational Stability
13 11 (11.11%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (59.60%) Java
2 29 (29.29%) Python
3 22 (22.22%) SQL
4 13 (13.13%) C++
5 9 (9.09%) C#
6 4 (4.04%) Bash
6 4 (4.04%) C
6 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.04%) Perl
7 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) Degree
2 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Solace
2 9 (9.09%) Bloomberg
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
3 8 (8.08%) TIBCO
4 5 (5.05%) ION Trading
5 4 (4.04%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.04%) CQG
5 4 (4.04%) Patsystems
5 4 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.04%) Reuters
5 4 (4.04%) Trayport
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco
7 1 (1.01%) Citrix
7 1 (1.01%) FactSet
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.01%) Murex
7 1 (1.01%) Splunk
7 1 (1.01%) Tradeweb