Electronic Trading Jobs

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 661 621
Rank change year-on-year +42 -40 +293
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 73 237 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 55 160 364
10th Percentile £65,250 £27,000 £54,125
25th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £70,551
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £120,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,625 £134,063
90th Percentile £162,500 £165,000 £157,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £29,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -57.04% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Electronic 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic 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 Electronic Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +44 72 £110,000 -8.33% 118
London +14 64 £110,000 -15.38% 110
Work from Home +143 24 £145,000 +20.83% 32
UK excluding London +150 8 - - 36
South East +111 4 - - 30
North of England +69 4 - - 3
North West - 4 - - 2

Electronic 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 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) Apache
2 4 (5.48%) GemFire
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.18%) AWS
2 5 (6.85%) Azure
3 3 (4.11%) npm
3 3 (4.11%) Yarn
4 1 (1.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (6.85%) DHCP
2 5 (6.85%) DNS
2 5 (6.85%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.22%) RDBMS
3 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.85%) KDB
5 4 (5.48%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (5.48%) Data Mining
5 4 (5.48%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (5.48%) Redis
6 3 (4.11%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) Gradle
3 3 (4.11%) webpack
4 2 (2.74%) Ant
4 2 (2.74%) Babel
4 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (64.38%) Front Office
2 35 (47.95%) Finance
3 34 (46.58%) Banking
4 14 (19.18%) Investment Banking
4 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Law
6 4 (5.48%) Spanish Language
7 2 (2.74%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 47 (64.38%) Developer
2 30 (41.10%) Java Developer
3 25 (34.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 22 (30.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 19 (26.03%) Front Office Developer
6 11 (15.07%) Senior
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Analyst
8 6 (8.22%) Java Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Applications Support
9 5 (6.85%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.85%) FIX Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) FIX Support Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) Linux Support
9 5 (6.85%) SQL Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) SQL Support Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
10 4 (5.48%) Server Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) Kafka
2 13 (17.81%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (15.07%) Middleware
4 7 (9.59%) Spring
5 5 (6.85%) React
6 4 (5.48%) .NET
6 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.48%) Web Services
7 3 (4.11%) XML
8 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.74%) CSS
8 2 (2.74%) CSS3
8 2 (2.74%) HTML
8 2 (2.74%) HTML5
8 2 (2.74%) MobX
8 2 (2.74%) Redux
8 2 (2.74%) RESTful
8 2 (2.74%) Semantic UI
8 2 (2.74%) WebSockets
8 2 (2.74%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (43.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (30.14%) Equities
3 19 (26.03%) Algorithms
4 18 (24.66%) Fixed Income
5 11 (15.07%) Derivative
6 10 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (8.22%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (6.85%) Bitcoin
8 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
8 5 (6.85%) Eurex
9 3 (4.11%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
11 1 (1.37%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.03%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Unix
3 5 (6.85%) CentOS
3 5 (6.85%) Rocky
4 2 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Low Latency
2 23 (31.51%) Algorithmic Trading
3 20 (27.40%) TDD
4 15 (20.55%) Multithreading
5 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 13 (17.81%) Agile
7 12 (16.44%) Re-Platforming
8 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.70%) Risk Management
10 9 (12.33%) BDD
10 9 (12.33%) Fintech
10 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.33%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.96%) Client Onboarding
11 8 (10.96%) Concurrent Programming
11 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (10.96%) Quantitative Research
12 7 (9.59%) Event-Driven
12 7 (9.59%) Market Making
12 7 (9.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.01%) Java
2 24 (32.88%) SQL
3 16 (21.92%) Python
4 9 (12.33%) C#
4 9 (12.33%) C++
5 5 (6.85%) Bash
5 5 (6.85%) Perl
6 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.48%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.48%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Solace
2 10 (13.70%) Oracle
3 7 (9.59%) Bloomberg
4 6 (8.22%) ION Trading
5 5 (6.85%) Atlassian
5 5 (6.85%) CQG
5 5 (6.85%) Patsystems
5 5 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.85%) Reuters
5 5 (6.85%) TIBCO
5 5 (6.85%) Trayport
6 4 (5.48%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) Google
7 1 (1.37%) NYFIX
7 1 (1.37%) Sun