Electronic Trading Developer Jobs

Electronic Trading Developer
UK

The median Electronic Trading Developer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 837 925
Rank change year-on-year +149 +88 +292
Permanent jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 24 41 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.041% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.044% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 24 29 48
10th Percentile £85,000 £132,000 £80,025
25th Percentile £88,750 £132,500 £103,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £150,000 £145,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +34.88%
75th Percentile £162,500 £162,500 £157,500
90th Percentile £166,000 £167,500 £167,500
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 49,912 93,707 92,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 67,086 58,518
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Developer
Top 3 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 14 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 +125 24 £110,000 -26.67% 10
London +97 24 £110,000 -26.67% 10
Work from Home +108 8 £155,000 +3.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, 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 24 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 22 (91.67%) Java
2 22 (91.67%) Front Office
3 15 (62.50%) Low Latency
4 12 (50.00%) TDD
4 12 (50.00%) Banking
5 10 (41.67%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (41.67%) SQL
5 10 (41.67%) Finance
5 10 (41.67%) AWS
5 10 (41.67%) Re-Platforming
6 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 9 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (37.50%) Multithreading
6 9 (37.50%) Equities
6 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
7 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 8 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (33.33%) Linux
7 8 (33.33%) Gradle
7 8 (33.33%) Algorithms
8 7 (29.17%) Git
8 7 (29.17%) BDD
8 7 (29.17%) Fixed Income
8 7 (29.17%) Agile
8 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 7 (29.17%) Concurrent Programming
8 7 (29.17%) Quantitative Research
9 6 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (25.00%) Solace

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 10 (41.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Gradle
2 7 (29.17%) Git
General
1 22 (91.67%) Front Office
2 12 (50.00%) Banking
3 10 (41.67%) Finance
4 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Equities
1 9 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 8 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (29.17%) Fixed Income
4 6 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 15 (62.50%) Low Latency
3 12 (50.00%) TDD
4 10 (41.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 10 (41.67%) Re-Platforming
5 9 (37.50%) Multithreading
5 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) BDD
7 7 (29.17%) Concurrent Programming
7 7 (29.17%) Quantitative Research
7 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Distributed Cache
8 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
8 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (8.33%) Order Management
10 1 (4.17%) Architecture Roadmap
10 1 (4.17%) Front End Development
10 1 (4.17%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Solace
2 1 (4.17%) ION Trading