Systematic Trading Jobs

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Systematic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 820 952
Rank change year-on-year +169 +132 +182
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 19 29 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.031% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.036% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 57
10th Percentile £62,500 £67,375 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £125,000 £145,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -13.79% +26.09%
75th Percentile £185,000 £151,875 £200,000
90th Percentile £225,000 £211,250 £250,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systematic 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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in the UK

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in the UK

Systematic Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in the UK

Systematic Trading
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systematic Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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 +147 19 £120,000 -4.00% 79
London +69 19 £120,000 -4.00% 79

Systematic 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Tick Data
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) C++ Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Fund Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Qualitative Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Deskside Support
5 1 (5.26%) Governance Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Researcher
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Security Compliance Manager
5 1 (5.26%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Hedge funds
2 4 (21.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (15.79%) Reference Data
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.53%) Equities
5 1 (5.26%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
2 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
2 8 (42.11%) Concurrent Programming
2 8 (42.11%) Low Latency
3 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
4 5 (26.32%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (26.32%) Memory Management
4 5 (26.32%) Physics
5 4 (21.05%) Backtesting
5 4 (21.05%) Data Management
5 4 (21.05%) Investment Management
5 4 (21.05%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Trading
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Metaprogramming
7 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Investing
7 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) C++
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.26%) R
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CISA
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) CRISC
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform