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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 855 926
Rank change year-on-year +162 +71 +158
Permanent jobs citing Market Making 24 39 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.039% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.046% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 45
10th Percentile £107,250 £97,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £156,250 £150,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +50.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £172,500 £172,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £190,000 £187,500 £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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Market Making in the UK

Market Making
Top 7 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 12 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 +134 24 £156,250 +4.17% 109
London +91 16 £152,500 +1.67% 107
Work from Home +127 9 £155,000 +34.78% 33
UK excluding London - 4 - - 31
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
South East - 2 - - 31

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) npm
2 1 (4.17%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 3 (12.50%) KDB
2 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.50%) Redis
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Ant
3 1 (4.17%) Babel
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 13 (54.17%) Front Office
2 12 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Java Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Server Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.17%) C# Pricing Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Pricing Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) CSS3
2 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) HTML5
2 1 (4.17%) Material-UI
2 1 (4.17%) MobX
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) Redux
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Semantic UI
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 9 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (29.17%) Derivative
5 6 (25.00%) Fixed Income
6 5 (20.83%) Equities
7 4 (16.67%) Blockchain
7 4 (16.67%) Hedge funds
8 3 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (12.50%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (4.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (4.17%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Low Latency
2 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.83%) Concurrent Programming
6 5 (20.83%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 4 (16.67%) Automated Trading
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Cryptocurrency
7 4 (16.67%) Garbage Collection
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) OO
8 3 (12.50%) Business Development
8 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) C++
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
1 3 (12.50%) Solace
1 3 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 1 (4.17%) Murex