Systematic Trading Jobs in England

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Systematic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 857 1082
Rank change year-on-year +49 +225 -211
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 31 63 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.071% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.074% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 26 57 49
10th Percentile £67,375 £75,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £95,625 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £175,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +52.17% +64.29%
75th Percentile £142,500 £180,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £250,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £125,000 £175,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +52.17% +64.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systematic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,224 85,386 129,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.41% 95.61% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53,820 50,634 73,490
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,095
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in England

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +95 31 £125,000 -28.57% 60
Systematic Trading
UK

Systematic 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 (3.23%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Tick Data
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Python Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Quantitative Developer
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Developer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.45%) C# Developer - Commodities
5 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Junior
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) DBA
6 1 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Hedge funds
2 8 (25.81%) Client/Server
3 6 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (12.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
7 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) CentOS
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
2 7 (22.58%) Backtesting
2 7 (22.58%) Microservices
2 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
3 6 (19.35%) High Availability
3 6 (19.35%) Low Latency
3 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
3 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
4 4 (12.90%) Order Management
4 4 (12.90%) Physics
4 4 (12.90%) Quantitative Trading
5 3 (9.68%) Analytics
5 3 (9.68%) Asset Management
5 3 (9.68%) Change Management
5 3 (9.68%) Fintech
5 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
5 3 (9.68%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (9.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) R
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
2 5 (16.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Red Hat