High-Frequency Trading Jobs in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency Trading
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring High-Frequency Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 752 -
Rank change year-on-year +179 - -
Permanent jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.004% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.005% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £95,500 - -
25th Percentile £96,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £116,250 - -
90th Percentile £118,500 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £128,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year -30.10% +28.75% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

High-Frequency 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,887 59,718 56,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.64% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,036 41,241 29,108
10th Percentile £26,902 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

High-Frequency Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing High-Frequency Trading in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for High-Frequency Trading in the UK excluding London

High-Frequency Trading
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High-Frequency Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +85 2 £105,000 +5.00% 7
High-Frequency Trading
UK

High-Frequency Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes