Market Making Jobs

Market Maker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Market Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Market Making over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 713 730 969
Rank change year-on-year +17 +239 +53
Permanent jobs citing Market Making 21 74 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.096% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.11% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 10 53 35
10th Percentile £109,000 £87,750 £75,250
25th Percentile £129,063 £105,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £115,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +24.32% -20.43%
75th Percentile £168,438 £150,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £190,000 £170,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Market Making 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 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

Market Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Market Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Market Making.

Salary trend for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Market Making over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Market Making within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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 +12 18 £150,000 +30.43% 41
Work from Home +60 11 £150,000 +30.43% 7
UK excluding London - 10 - - 7
London -26 9 £145,000 +26.09% 40
South East - 7 - - 7
Scotland - 3 - -

Market Making
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 7 (33.33%) npm
1 7 (33.33%) Yarn
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) TeamCity
2 7 (33.33%) Ant
2 7 (33.33%) Babel
2 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) webpack
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
1 11 (52.38%) Front Office
2 9 (42.86%) Banking
3 7 (33.33%) Agriculture
3 7 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) Developer
3 7 (33.33%) UI Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) UX Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Flex Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) React
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) CSS
2 7 (33.33%) CSS3
2 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 7 (33.33%) HTML5
2 7 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 7 (33.33%) MobX
2 7 (33.33%) Redux
2 7 (33.33%) RESTful
2 7 (33.33%) Semantic UI
2 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 7 (33.33%) WPF
3 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 7 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (14.29%) Blockchain
3 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Analytics
1 10 (47.62%) Front End Development
2 9 (42.86%) Electronic Trading
2 9 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Low Latency
3 8 (38.10%) Microservices
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) User Experience
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
4 7 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 7 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Functional Programming
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (33.33%) UX Design
4 7 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 8 (38.10%) C#
4 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
1 7 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Consul
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes