Automated Trading Jobs

Automated Trading
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Automated Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automated 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 698 774 900
Rank change year-on-year +76 +126 +211
Permanent jobs citing Automated Trading 13 136 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.13% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.16% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 8 122 48
10th Percentile £87,000 £73,750 -
25th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £131,875 £115,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £137,500 £136,250 £136,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £105,000 - £76,250
% change year-on-year - - +34.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Automated 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automated Trading in the UK

Automated Trading
Top 7 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 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
England +36 13 £115,000 +4.55% 117
London -8 8 £120,000 +9.09% 111
UK excluding London - 5 £105,000 - 34
Work from Home +109 4 - - 36
South East - 3 £105,000 - 28
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -

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 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) GemFire
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (23.08%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (23.08%) Redis
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Pinecone
2 2 (15.38%) Weaviate
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Front Office
3 4 (30.77%) Law
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Advertising
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Server Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Server Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Strategist
4 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office RAD Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) RAD Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
1 5 (38.46%) NumPy
1 5 (38.46%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Django
3 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 2 (15.38%) Flask
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
3 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
3 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (23.08%) Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Equities
2 3 (23.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (38.46%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Business Development
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
5 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) Market Making
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) C++
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Solace
1 3 (23.08%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) Refinitiv