Smart Order Routing Job Trends

Smart Order Routing (SOR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Smart Order Routing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 697 712
Rank change year-on-year +55 +15 +297
Permanent jobs citing Smart Order Routing 11 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.004% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £125,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £135,000 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -29.41% -37.61%
75th Percentile £170,000 - £105,000
90th Percentile £184,500 - £162,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £50,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Smart Order Routing 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Smart Order Routing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Smart Order Routing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Smart Order Routing job vacancy trend in the UK

Smart Order Routing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Smart Order Routing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Smart Order Routing

Smart Order Routing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smart Order Routing over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Smart Order Routing in the UK

Smart Order Routing
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Order Routing within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 +71 11 £160,000 +166.67% 2
London +63 11 £160,000 +166.67% 2
Work from Home +72 6 £150,000 +150.00%

Smart Order Routing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (9.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) KDB
1 1 (9.09%) Tick Data
General
1 10 (90.91%) Front Office
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) C++ Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Quantitative Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Java Concurrency
2 7 (63.64%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (63.64%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) JMS
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Algorithms
2 7 (63.64%) Equities
3 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (54.55%) Derivative
4 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
5 3 (27.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Electronic Trading
1 10 (90.91%) Low Latency
2 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
2 9 (81.82%) Mathematics
3 7 (63.64%) Market Making
4 6 (54.55%) Memory Management
4 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
4 6 (54.55%) Quantitative Research
5 5 (45.45%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (36.36%) Analytics
6 4 (36.36%) Microservices
7 3 (27.27%) Applied Mathematics
7 3 (27.27%) Benchmarking
7 3 (27.27%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (27.27%) Quantitative Trading
7 3 (27.27%) Statistics
8 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 1 (9.09%) Quantitative Finance
8 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
1 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg
1 1 (9.09%) Charles River
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk