High-Frequency Trading Jobs in England

High-Frequency Trading
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 792 850
Rank change year-on-year +137 +58 +212
Permanent jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 24 58 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.065% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.077% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 19 54 50
10th Percentile £33,500 £72,500 £85,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £77,188 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £128,750 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.75% +25.61% -
75th Percentile £121,250 £150,000 £119,063
90th Percentile £151,000 £165,000 £136,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £128,750 £102,500
% change year-on-year -41.75% +25.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

High-Frequency 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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing High-Frequency Trading in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for High-Frequency Trading in England

High-Frequency 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 High-Frequency Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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 +72 22 £52,500 -61.11% 98
South East +79 2 £105,000 +5.00% 1
High-Frequency Trading
UK

High-Frequency 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) BGP
1 7 (29.17%) EIGRP
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
1 7 (29.17%) HSRP
1 7 (29.17%) IPsec
1 7 (29.17%) OSPF
1 7 (29.17%) SNMP
1 7 (29.17%) VPN
1 7 (29.17%) VRRP
2 6 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.17%) Multicast
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.33%) Pinecone
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Redis
1 2 (8.33%) Weaviate
2 1 (4.17%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MLflow
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (45.83%) Banking
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Investment Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
6 1 (4.17%) Back Office
6 1 (4.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) C++ Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Research Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior C++ Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Junior
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) gRPC
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) NumPy
2 2 (8.33%) Pandas
2 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
2 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.33%) web3js
2 2 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.17%) Flask
3 1 (4.17%) Motif
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 6 (25.00%) IPTV
2 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Web3
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Low Latency
2 7 (29.17%) Network Management
3 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
4 5 (20.83%) Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
4 5 (20.83%) Quantitative Finance
5 4 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (16.67%) Fintech
5 4 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 3 (12.50%) Cryptocurrency
6 3 (12.50%) DeFi
6 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 3 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) C++
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) R
4 2 (8.33%) Rust
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CCNA
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubeflow
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Arista
1 7 (29.17%) Bloomberg
1 7 (29.17%) CheckPoint
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco
1 7 (29.17%) Fortinet
1 7 (29.17%) SolarWinds
2 6 (25.00%) Meraki
2 6 (25.00%) Refinitiv
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) TIBCO
4 1 (4.17%) FXall
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Reuters