Proprietary Trading Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Proprietary Trading skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Proprietary Trading 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37,000 - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile £93,000 - -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +62.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Proprietary 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 30,834 36,907 27,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.23% 83.91% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,792 17,856 20,276
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Proprietary Trading relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Proprietary Trading job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Proprietary Trading
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proprietary Trading.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proprietary Trading

Proprietary Trading
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proprietary Trading in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Proprietary Trading in the UK excluding London

Proprietary 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 Proprietary Trading within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
East of England - 2 £65,000 - 4
Proprietary Trading
UK

Proprietary Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering