Electronic Trading Jobs in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 348 278
Rank change year-on-year +41 -70 +313
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 94 111 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.55% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.61% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 58 83 243
10th Percentile £78,875 £53,500 £61,500
25th Percentile £85,625 £90,625 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £126,250 £145,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £154,000 £157,500 £162,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,165 18,086 23,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.60% 89.55% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,240 11,710 18,716
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Central London +40 21 £112,500 -6.25% 5
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) AWS
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon MSK
2 3 (3.19%) Azure
3 1 (1.06%) GCP
3 1 (1.06%) npm
3 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.06%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.19%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (3.19%) SSL
3 2 (2.13%) DHCP
3 2 (2.13%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) Firewall
3 2 (2.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.26%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) KDB
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) Gradle
2 3 (3.19%) webpack
3 2 (2.13%) Babel
3 2 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
General
1 60 (63.83%) Finance
2 48 (51.06%) Banking
3 45 (47.87%) Front Office
4 24 (25.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (25.53%) Law
4 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
5 20 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.57%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
8 5 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (52.13%) Developer
2 21 (22.34%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 17 (18.09%) Lead
4 17 (18.09%) Senior
5 16 (17.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 12 (12.77%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 9 (9.57%) C++ Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Front Office Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Python Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) C# Developer
9 7 (7.45%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Analyst
10 6 (6.38%) Java Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Java Quantitative Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.47%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (8.51%) Kafka
3 7 (7.45%) React
4 6 (6.38%) Spring
5 4 (4.26%) .NET
5 4 (4.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.19%) Highcharts JS
6 3 (3.19%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.19%) OpenFin
6 3 (3.19%) RESTful
6 3 (3.19%) WebSockets
7 2 (2.13%) CSS
7 2 (2.13%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (2.13%) Jest
7 2 (2.13%) Material-UI
7 2 (2.13%) Middleware
7 2 (2.13%) Web Services
7 2 (2.13%) XML
8 1 (1.06%) Node.js
8 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (25.53%) Equities
3 23 (24.47%) Fixed Income
4 21 (22.34%) Algorithms
5 14 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (9.57%) Derivative
6 9 (9.57%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (4.26%) Hedge funds
9 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
9 3 (3.19%) Eurex
9 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.13%) Bitcoin
10 2 (2.13%) Grid Computing
10 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.13%) SIMD
11 1 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (1.06%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) CentOS
3 2 (2.13%) Rocky
3 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.49%) Low Latency
2 36 (38.30%) Agile
2 36 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (35.11%) Software Engineering
4 26 (27.66%) Algorithmic Trading
4 26 (27.66%) Computer Science
4 26 (27.66%) SDLC
5 20 (21.28%) Multithreading
6 18 (19.15%) Analytics
6 18 (19.15%) Order Management
7 17 (18.09%) Mathematics
8 15 (15.96%) Quantitative Research
9 13 (13.83%) High-Frequency Trading
9 13 (13.83%) Risk Management
10 12 (12.77%) Creative Thinking
11 11 (11.70%) Operational Stability
11 11 (11.70%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (11.70%) Statistics
12 10 (10.64%) Workflow
13 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Java
2 42 (44.68%) Python
3 17 (18.09%) C++
4 13 (13.83%) C#
4 13 (13.83%) SQL
5 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.26%) C
7 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.13%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (36.17%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) Master's Degree
2 9 (9.57%) PhD
3 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Docker
1 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Grafana
1 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Solace
2 5 (5.32%) ION Trading
3 4 (4.26%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.19%) CQG
4 3 (3.19%) Patsystems
4 3 (3.19%) Reuters
4 3 (3.19%) Trayport
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco
6 1 (1.06%) Citrix
6 1 (1.06%) FactSet
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Murex
6 1 (1.06%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) Tradeweb