Systematic Trading Jobs in England

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Systematic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 813 857
Rank change year-on-year +151 +44 +266
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 21 29 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.033% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.039% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 17 25 56
10th Percentile £106,000 £65,850 £75,000
25th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £125,000 £160,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -21.88% +39.13%
75th Percentile £172,500 £142,500 £180,000
90th Percentile £201,000 £155,500 £225,000
UK median annual salary £120,000 £125,000 £160,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -21.88% +39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systematic 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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
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 £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +112 21 £120,000 -4.00% 136
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 (4.76%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Tick Data
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) KDB
3 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Front Office
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) C++ Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Fund Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Qualitative Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Access Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Researcher
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Pandas
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) Django
2 2 (9.52%) FastAPI
2 2 (9.52%) Flask
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) NumPy
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Hedge funds
2 5 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (19.05%) Reference Data
4 3 (14.29%) Equities
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.76%) Derivative
6 1 (4.76%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Low Latency
1 9 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
2 8 (38.10%) Concurrent Programming
2 8 (38.10%) Mathematics
3 6 (28.57%) Algorithmic Trading
3 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Memory Management
4 5 (23.81%) Physics
4 5 (23.81%) Quantitative Trading
5 4 (19.05%) Backtesting
5 4 (19.05%) Data Management
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (19.05%) Investment Management
5 4 (19.05%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 2 (9.52%) Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (9.52%) Metaprogramming
6 2 (9.52%) Quantitative Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) C++
3 3 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.76%) R
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree