Automated Trading
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Automated Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Automated Trading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 920 1073
Rank change year-on-year +131 +153 -272
Permanent jobs citing Automated Trading 105 65 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.062% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.064% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 95 49 53
10th Percentile £73,750 - £49,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £70,735 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +40.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £140,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £76,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +17.31% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Automated 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automated Trading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
London +202 105 £110,000 +15.79% 26
England +166 105 £110,000 +15.79% 30
Work from Home +76 14 £57,500 -39.47% 11

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 69 (65.71%) Apache
1 69 (65.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 75 (71.43%) AWS
2 74 (70.48%) Azure
3 69 (65.71%) GCP
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (65.71%) Apache Ignite
1 69 (65.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.76%) MySQL
2 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (39.05%) Cypress.io
General
1 86 (81.90%) Front Office
2 80 (76.19%) Finance
3 70 (66.67%) Banking
4 5 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (92.38%) Developer
2 74 (70.48%) Python Developer
3 69 (65.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 69 (65.71%) Python Engineer
3 69 (65.71%) Python Software Engineer
3 69 (65.71%) Software Engineer
4 67 (63.81%) React Developer
5 29 (27.62%) Full Stack Developer
5 29 (27.62%) Full Stack Engineer
5 29 (27.62%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 29 (27.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) C++ Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.76%) C# Developer
7 5 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Lead
7 5 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer - Fintech
8 4 (3.81%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (65.71%) gRPC
1 69 (65.71%) Material-UI
1 69 (65.71%) Protocol Buffers
1 69 (65.71%) React
1 69 (65.71%) Redux
2 5 (4.76%) .NET
2 5 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 4 (3.81%) Kafka
3 4 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.81%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.95%) NumPy
4 1 (0.95%) Pandas
4 1 (0.95%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 87 (82.86%) Hedge funds
2 81 (77.14%) Fixed Income
3 40 (38.10%) Equities
4 17 (16.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.81%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.95%) Bitcoin
8 1 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Linux
2 9 (8.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (78.10%) Agile
2 75 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 74 (70.48%) Asset Management
4 70 (66.67%) Software Engineering
5 69 (65.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 69 (65.71%) Full Stack Development
5 69 (65.71%) Investment Management
6 16 (15.24%) Electronic Trading
6 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.33%) Multithreading
8 13 (12.38%) Low Latency
9 11 (10.48%) Order Management
9 11 (10.48%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.52%) SDLC
11 9 (8.57%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.57%) DevOps
12 8 (7.62%) Algorithmic Trading
13 6 (5.71%) Data Modelling
13 6 (5.71%) Portfolio Management
13 6 (5.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 99 (94.29%) Python
2 69 (65.71%) TypeScript
3 39 (37.14%) SQL
4 19 (18.10%) C++
5 11 (10.48%) Java
6 10 (9.52%) C#
7 5 (4.76%) Rust
8 1 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (7.62%) Degree
2 1 (0.95%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) QA
1 1 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Grafana
1 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (65.71%) Google
2 4 (3.81%) Splunk