Systematic Trading Jobs in London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 371 483 548
Rank change year-on-year +112 +65 +311
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 21 29 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17 25 55
10th Percentile £106,000 £65,850 £75,000
25th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £125,000 £175,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -28.57% +52.17%
75th Percentile £172,500 £142,500 £180,000
90th Percentile £201,000 £155,500 £225,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £125,000 £160,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -21.88% +39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading within the London 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
Central London +40 4 £135,000 +35.00% 3
Systematic Trading
England

Systematic 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 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