Electronic Trading Developer Jobs

Electronic Trading Developer
UK

The median Electronic Trading Developer salary in the UK is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 736 1100
Rank change year-on-year -53 +364 -75
Permanent jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 21 40 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.066% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.068% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 55
10th Percentile £113,000 £83,750 £90,000
25th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £130,000 £145,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +38.10%
75th Percentile £157,500 £143,750 £157,500
90th Percentile £165,500 £162,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £85,000 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 75,402 58,436 137,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.63% 95.77% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 40,224 42,232 78,508
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £44,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Electronic Trading Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer over the 6 months to 9 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -50 21 £135,000 +3.85% 2
London -9 18 £135,000 +3.85% 2
Work from Home -1 6 £130,000 -5.45% 1
UK excluding London -33 3 - -
South East - 3 - -

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 October 2024, Electronic Trading Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 19 (90.48%) Java
3 16 (76.19%) Low Latency
4 14 (66.67%) Front Office
5 12 (57.14%) Banking
6 9 (42.86%) Multithreading
6 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
7 8 (38.10%) SQL
8 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
8 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (23.81%) Finance
10 5 (23.81%) Fixed Income
10 5 (23.81%) Equities
10 5 (23.81%) Linux
11 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
11 4 (19.05%) Agile
11 4 (19.05%) TDD
11 4 (19.05%) Algorithmic Trading
11 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
11 4 (19.05%) Garbage Collection
12 3 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
12 3 (14.29%) Hazelcast
12 3 (14.29%) Anomaly Detection
12 3 (14.29%) Stress Testing
12 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
12 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
12 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Hazelcast
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 3 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Gradle
General
1 14 (66.67%) Front Office
2 12 (57.14%) Banking
3 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 5 (23.81%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (23.81%) Equities
2 5 (23.81%) Fixed Income
3 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
5 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
5 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
5 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 16 (76.19%) Low Latency
3 9 (42.86%) Multithreading
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (19.05%) Garbage Collection
5 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
6 3 (14.29%) Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Anomaly Detection
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 3 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 3 (14.29%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) F#
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Solace