Electronic Trading Jobs in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 320 600
Rank change year-on-year -38 +280 -245
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 157 372 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.66% 1.09% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.14% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 122 338 205
10th Percentile £64,250 £52,500 £65,800
25th Percentile £98,125 £70,735 £84,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £100,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -6.98% +10.26%
75th Percentile £157,500 £134,688 £128,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £100,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Electronic 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,544 32,669 65,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.15% 95.34% 96.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,990 23,508 34,093
10th Percentile £37,519 £43,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,830 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
Central London +16 37 £120,000 -0.21% 3
East London - 8 £150,000 -
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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.46%) AWS
2 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) DHCP
1 1 (0.64%) DNS
1 1 (0.64%) LAN
1 1 (0.64%) SNMP
1 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) MySQL
2 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.91%) KDB
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Maven
3 5 (3.18%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.91%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.27%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 98 (62.42%) Front Office
2 66 (42.04%) Banking
3 60 (38.22%) Finance
4 57 (36.31%) Investment Banking
5 47 (29.94%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.37%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Back Office
8 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (60.51%) Developer
2 54 (34.39%) Java Developer
3 42 (26.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 34 (21.66%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 27 (17.20%) Analyst
6 18 (11.46%) Software Engineer
7 17 (10.83%) Quantitative Developer
7 17 (10.83%) Senior
8 13 (8.28%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) Business Analyst
9 12 (7.64%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.01%) Java Quantitative Developer
11 10 (6.37%) Lead
12 9 (5.73%) Electronic Trading Support
12 9 (5.73%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.10%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.46%) Front Office Developer
14 7 (4.46%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.29%) Spring
2 19 (12.10%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (10.19%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.92%) REST
5 10 (6.37%) Kafka
6 8 (5.10%) React
7 7 (4.46%) .NET
8 6 (3.82%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.55%) Middleware
10 4 (2.55%) Rendezvous
11 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.27%) HTML
11 2 (1.27%) Playwright
11 2 (1.27%) Web Services
12 1 (0.64%) D3.js
12 1 (0.64%) Highcharts JS
12 1 (0.64%) HTML5
12 1 (0.64%) Pandas
12 1 (0.64%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 46 (29.30%) Fixed Income
2 37 (23.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (13.38%) Equities
3 21 (13.38%) Hedge funds
4 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (8.28%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (7.01%) Client/Server
7 6 (3.82%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.91%) Derivative
9 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.91%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.27%) FPGA
10 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.27%) VHDL
10 2 (1.27%) VLSI
11 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.20%) Linux
2 11 (7.01%) Unix
3 6 (3.82%) Windows
4 5 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.49%) Low Latency
2 56 (35.67%) Agile
3 49 (31.21%) Multithreading
4 33 (21.02%) Algorithmic Trading
5 31 (19.75%) TDD
6 29 (18.47%) Computer Science
7 27 (17.20%) OO
8 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
9 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (13.38%) High-Frequency Trading
11 19 (12.10%) Market Making
12 17 (10.83%) Full Stack Development
13 16 (10.19%) Test Automation
14 15 (9.55%) Automated Trading
15 14 (8.92%) Design Patterns
15 14 (8.92%) DevOps
15 14 (8.92%) Microservices
16 12 (7.64%) Mathematics
17 11 (7.01%) Data Management
18 10 (6.37%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (58.60%) Java
2 46 (29.30%) SQL
3 34 (21.66%) Python
4 19 (12.10%) C#
5 18 (11.46%) Rust
6 14 (8.92%) C++
7 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.46%) Perl
9 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Degree
2 15 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) QA
1 2 (1.27%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.91%) Nmap
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Bloomberg
2 9 (5.73%) ION Trading
3 7 (4.46%) FFastFill
3 7 (4.46%) Refinitiv
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.27%) Databricks
5 2 (1.27%) Sybase
6 1 (0.64%) F5
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.64%) Murex
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.64%) Reuters
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow