Proprietary Trading Jobs

Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Proprietary Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Proprietary Trading over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 874 945
Rank change year-on-year +173 +71 +236
Permanent jobs citing Proprietary Trading 10 36 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.035% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.042% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 10
10th Percentile £91,250 £66,250 £53,125
25th Percentile £110,000 £70,000 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +3.03% -51.47%
75th Percentile - £172,500 £135,000
90th Percentile - £189,500 £192,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Proprietary 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Proprietary Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proprietary Trading over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Proprietary Trading in the UK

Proprietary Trading
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proprietary Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +133 10 £140,000 +64.71% 268
London +94 10 £140,000 +64.71% 104
Work from Home +116 2 - - 101

Proprietary 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Hazelcast
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Fintech
2 4 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Physics
2 4 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Investing
5 1 (10.00%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) F#
3 1 (10.00%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (40.00%) PhD
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Check_MK
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Opsgenie
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Imperva
2 1 (10.00%) Okta