Electronic Trading Java Developer Jobs

Java Developer - Electronic Trading
UK

The median Java Developer - Electronic Trading salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 879 892
Rank change year-on-year +179 +13 +381
Permanent jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Java Developer 21 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.026% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.027% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 33
10th Percentile - - £75,900
25th Percentile £85,000 £132,500 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £150,000 £132,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +13.21% +26.19%
75th Percentile £142,500 £167,500 £157,500
90th Percentile £162,500 - £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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading Java Developer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading Java Developer in the UK

Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +143 21 £110,000 -26.67% 13
London +89 21 £110,000 -26.67% 13
Work from Home +118 6 £155,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Electronic Trading Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
1 21 (100.00%) Front Office
1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 13 (61.90%) Low Latency
3 11 (52.38%) Banking
4 10 (47.62%) TDD
4 10 (47.62%) Algorithmic Trading
4 10 (47.62%) Multithreading
5 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 9 (42.86%) AWS
5 9 (42.86%) Equities
5 9 (42.86%) Linux
5 9 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 9 (42.86%) Concurrent Programming
5 9 (42.86%) Re-Platforming
6 8 (38.10%) Solace
6 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 8 (38.10%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (38.10%) SQL
6 8 (38.10%) Finance
6 8 (38.10%) Fixed Income
6 8 (38.10%) Gradle
7 7 (33.33%) BDD
7 7 (33.33%) Git
7 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 7 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (33.33%) Algorithms
7 7 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
8 6 (28.57%) Greenfield Project

Electronic Trading Java 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 9 (42.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Gradle
2 7 (33.33%) Git
General
1 21 (100.00%) Front Office
2 11 (52.38%) Banking
3 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 8 (38.10%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Equities
1 9 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (38.10%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (38.10%) Fixed Income
3 7 (33.33%) Algorithms
4 6 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 13 (61.90%) Low Latency
3 10 (47.62%) Algorithmic Trading
3 10 (47.62%) Multithreading
3 10 (47.62%) TDD
4 9 (42.86%) Concurrent Programming
4 9 (42.86%) Re-Platforming
4 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (33.33%) BDD
6 7 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
6 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (28.57%) Distributed Cache
7 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
9 3 (14.29%) Order Management
10 2 (9.52%) Smart Order Routing
11 1 (4.76%) Architecture Roadmap
11 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Solace
2 2 (9.52%) ION Trading