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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 558 908
Rank change year-on-year -117 +350 -206
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 167 358 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.44% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.47% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 102 320 274
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £79,849
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £146,875 £140,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £159,750 £157,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £76,250 £66,250
% change year-on-year -26.23% +15.09% -1.85%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 8 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 26 July 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 -149 135 £115,000 +15.00% 21
London -75 130 £115,000 +15.00% 21
Work from Home -41 43 £107,500 +13.16% 10
UK excluding London 0 32 £56,250 -26.23% 9
Scotland -17 27 - -
South East - 4 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands -3 1 £57,500 -
Midlands -20 1 £57,500 -

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 3 (1.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.17%) BlazeMeter
2 13 (7.78%) AWS
3 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.20%) DHCP
2 2 (1.20%) DNS
2 2 (1.20%) LAN
2 2 (1.20%) SNMP
2 2 (1.20%) WAN
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.19%) MySQL
3 6 (3.59%) KDB
4 4 (2.40%) Tableau
5 3 (1.80%) Hazelcast
5 3 (1.80%) Power BI
5 3 (1.80%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 27 (16.17%) JMeter
2 24 (14.37%) JIRA
3 15 (8.98%) Maven
4 13 (7.78%) Gradle
5 11 (6.59%) Git
6 10 (5.99%) Jenkins
7 9 (5.39%) Cucumber
7 9 (5.39%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.80%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.80%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.20%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
General
1 93 (55.69%) Finance
2 73 (43.71%) Front Office
3 58 (34.73%) Social Skills
4 55 (32.93%) Banking
5 37 (22.16%) Investment Banking
6 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (16.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (16.17%) Law
7 27 (16.17%) Marketing
8 9 (5.39%) Financial Institution
9 7 (4.19%) Legal
10 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Back Office
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (38.92%) Developer
2 39 (23.35%) Java Developer
3 38 (22.75%) Analyst
4 35 (20.96%) Java Engineer
5 34 (20.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 34 (20.36%) Java Software Engineer
5 34 (20.36%) Software Engineer
6 27 (16.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 23 (13.77%) Senior
8 19 (11.38%) Full Stack Engineer
9 18 (10.78%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 15 (8.98%) Lead
11 13 (7.78%) Electronic Trading Support
11 13 (7.78%) Quantitative Developer
11 13 (7.78%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.59%) Support Analyst
13 10 (5.99%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (5.39%) Lead Developer
14 9 (5.39%) QA Engineer
14 9 (5.39%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.56%) React
2 19 (11.38%) Spring
3 17 (10.18%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (9.58%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.99%) REST
6 9 (5.39%) .NET
6 9 (5.39%) Ext JS
7 6 (3.59%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.40%) Kafka
9 3 (1.80%) Middleware
9 3 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.80%) WPF
10 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.20%) HTML
10 2 (1.20%) LDAP
10 2 (1.20%) Web Services
11 1 (0.60%) CSS
11 1 (0.60%) J2EE
11 1 (0.60%) Pandas
11 1 (0.60%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (21.56%) Fixed Income
3 27 (16.17%) Market Risk
4 17 (10.18%) Equities
5 11 (6.59%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.80%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.80%) Derivative
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.80%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.20%) VWAP
11 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.57%) Linux
2 14 (8.38%) Unix
3 5 (2.99%) Windows
4 4 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.92%) Agile
2 57 (34.13%) TDD
3 48 (28.74%) Low Latency
4 43 (25.75%) Multithreading
4 43 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (25.75%) Software Engineering
4 43 (25.75%) Test Automation
5 37 (22.16%) CI/CD
6 35 (20.96%) Microservices
7 31 (18.56%) Risk Management
8 30 (17.96%) SDLC
9 28 (16.77%) BDD
10 27 (16.17%) Full Stack Development
10 27 (16.17%) Operational Stability
11 24 (14.37%) Analytics
11 24 (14.37%) OO
12 22 (13.17%) Algorithmic Trading
13 21 (12.57%) Machine Learning
14 20 (11.98%) Computer Science
15 19 (11.38%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 99 (59.28%) Java
2 60 (35.93%) SQL
3 24 (14.37%) Python
4 18 (10.78%) C#
5 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.39%) Rust
7 8 (4.79%) C++
8 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.40%) Perl
9 4 (2.40%) R
9 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.20%) F#
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (9.58%) Degree
2 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.60%) CFA
4 1 (0.60%) CISA
4 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.60%) CISSP
4 1 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) QA
2 6 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.59%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) COBIT
3 1 (0.60%) COSO
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.40%) Ansible
2 3 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.80%) MOM
2 3 (1.80%) Nmap
3 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) SCCM
4 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (8.98%) Bloomberg
2 9 (5.39%) TOWER Software
3 8 (4.79%) ION Trading
3 8 (4.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.19%) FFastFill
4 7 (4.19%) Refinitiv
5 4 (2.40%) Oracle
6 3 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.80%) Murex
7 2 (1.20%) Citrix
7 2 (1.20%) F5
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) Sybase
7 2 (1.20%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Calypso
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco
8 1 (0.60%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.60%) Reuters
8 1 (0.60%) Tradeweb