Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 618 943
Rank change year-on-year -67 +325 -314
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 231 393 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.40% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 153 359 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £53,500 £66,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £100,000 £108,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -8.05% +12.99%
75th Percentile £152,500 £135,625 £130,000
90th Percentile £164,500 £157,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -57.04% -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 11 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 5 May 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 -48 197 £120,000 +20.00% 80
London -34 157 £133,750 +33.75% 77
Work from Home -7 74 £120,000 +26.32% 20
UK excluding London +55 67 £29,000 -57.04% 3
Scotland -37 28 £75,000 -1.64%
North of England - 20 £29,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
Midlands +33 17 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands - 16 - - 1
South East - 2 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £50,000 -

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 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (15.58%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.69%) BlazeMeter
2 17 (7.36%) AWS
3 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.43%) Azure
3 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (0.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) DHCP
2 1 (0.43%) DNS
2 1 (0.43%) LAN
2 1 (0.43%) SNMP
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.19%) MySQL
2 8 (3.46%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.30%) KDB
4 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (11.69%) JMeter
2 18 (7.79%) Maven
3 17 (7.36%) JIRA
4 13 (5.63%) Git
5 10 (4.33%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.90%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.90%) Gradle
6 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.16%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.30%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.87%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.43%) Moq
10 1 (0.43%) NUnit
General
1 103 (44.59%) Front Office
2 100 (43.29%) Social Skills
3 94 (40.69%) Finance
4 68 (29.44%) Banking
5 58 (25.11%) Investment Banking
6 37 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (11.69%) Law
7 27 (11.69%) Marketing
8 20 (8.66%) Legal
8 20 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (6.93%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (42.42%) Developer
2 56 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 50 (21.65%) Analyst
4 47 (20.35%) Software Engineer
5 42 (18.18%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 40 (17.32%) Java Engineer
6 40 (17.32%) Java Software Engineer
7 34 (14.72%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (9.09%) Governance Analyst
9 19 (8.23%) Senior
10 18 (7.79%) Full Stack Engineer
10 18 (7.79%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 17 (7.36%) Quantitative Developer
12 14 (6.06%) Business Analyst
13 13 (5.63%) Electronic Trading Support
13 13 (5.63%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (4.76%) Java Quantitative Developer
15 11 (4.76%) Lead
16 10 (4.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.72%) React
2 32 (13.85%) Spring
3 25 (10.82%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (10.39%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.63%) REST
6 10 (4.33%) .NET
6 10 (4.33%) Kafka
7 9 (3.90%) Ext JS
8 6 (2.60%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.60%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.73%) Middleware
9 4 (1.73%) Rendezvous
10 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.87%) Playwright
11 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET Web API
11 1 (0.43%) Blazor
11 1 (0.43%) HTML5
11 1 (0.43%) Murex MxML
11 1 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.35%) Fixed Income
2 43 (18.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (11.69%) Market Risk
4 23 (9.96%) Equities
5 21 (9.09%) Hedge funds
5 21 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 20 (8.66%) Reinsurance
7 17 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (6.93%) Taxonomies
9 15 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (4.76%) Client/Server
12 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.30%) Derivative
13 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.87%) FPGA
14 2 (0.87%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.26%) Linux
2 10 (4.33%) Unix
3 6 (2.60%) Windows
4 5 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.10%) Agile
2 64 (27.71%) Low Latency
3 59 (25.54%) TDD
4 53 (22.94%) Software Engineering
5 50 (21.65%) Multithreading
5 50 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (18.61%) Test Automation
7 42 (18.18%) Microservices
8 35 (15.15%) Computer Science
8 35 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 35 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
9 33 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
10 32 (13.85%) CI/CD
10 32 (13.85%) Risk Management
11 30 (12.99%) SDLC
12 28 (12.12%) BDD
13 27 (11.69%) Data Management
13 27 (11.69%) OO
13 27 (11.69%) Operational Stability
14 26 (11.26%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 126 (54.55%) Java
2 53 (22.94%) SQL
3 32 (13.85%) Python
4 22 (9.52%) C#
5 17 (7.36%) Rust
6 13 (5.63%) C++
7 10 (4.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.03%) Perl
8 7 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (18.61%) Degree
2 17 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) QA
2 6 (2.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.03%) Ansible
3 3 (1.30%) Nmap
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 18 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.63%) Bloomberg
3 9 (3.90%) ION Trading
3 9 (3.90%) TOWER Software
4 7 (3.03%) FFastFill
4 7 (3.03%) Refinitiv
5 5 (2.16%) Murex
5 5 (2.16%) Oracle
6 4 (1.73%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.87%) Databricks
7 2 (0.87%) Sybase
8 1 (0.43%) F5
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) Reuters
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow