Proprietary Trading Jobs in England

Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Proprietary Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Proprietary Trading over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 807 878
Rank change year-on-year +132 +71 +237
Permanent jobs citing Proprietary Trading 10 36 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.040% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.048% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 10
10th Percentile £91,250 £66,250 £53,125
25th Percentile £110,000 £70,000 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +3.03% -51.47%
75th Percentile - £172,500 £135,000
90th Percentile - £189,500 £192,500
UK median annual salary £140,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +64.71% +3.03% -51.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Proprietary 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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Proprietary Trading in England

Proprietary Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Proprietary Trading in England

Proprietary Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proprietary Trading in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Proprietary Trading in England

Proprietary 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 Proprietary Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 +88 10 £140,000 +64.71% 79
Proprietary Trading
UK

Proprietary 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Hazelcast
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Fintech
2 4 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Physics
2 4 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Investing
5 1 (10.00%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) F#
3 1 (10.00%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (40.00%) PhD
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Check_MK
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Opsgenie
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Imperva
2 1 (10.00%) Okta