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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 732 685 1011
Rank change year-on-year -47 +326 +32
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 34 45 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.085% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.090% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 28 39 60
10th Percentile £35,463 £71,500 £74,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £145,000 £138,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +4.50% +26.14%
75th Percentile £145,000 £176,250 £200,000
90th Percentile £175,000 £225,000 £250,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +65.00%

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 61,487 49,863 117,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 94.11% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,400 36,022 72,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,680 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,714 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.87% +7.00%

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 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in the UK

Systematic 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 Systematic Trading within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
London -24 34 £127,500 -12.07% 35
England -68 34 £127,500 -12.07% 36
Work from Home +7 6 £125,000 +28.21% 6

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) Network Security
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Big Data
1 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.88%) MySQL
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.88%) Redis
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.88%) Tick Data
2 1 (2.94%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (58.82%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Front Office
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Rust Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) C++ Developer
5 2 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support
5 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Smart Contracts
1 6 (17.65%) web3js
2 3 (8.82%) Kafka
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.88%) NumPy
3 2 (5.88%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) SciPy
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Hedge funds
2 10 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (17.65%) Blockchain
3 6 (17.65%) Equities
3 6 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (17.65%) Web3
4 5 (14.71%) Data Structures
4 5 (14.71%) Fixed Income
5 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
6 3 (8.82%) Derivative
7 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
7 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.94%) ASIC
8 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.94%) FPGA
8 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Computer Science
2 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (23.53%) Low Latency
4 7 (20.59%) DeFi
4 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Market Making
5 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
5 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.76%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (11.76%) Fintech
6 4 (11.76%) High Availability
6 4 (11.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.82%) DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) Financial Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (8.82%) High-Frequency Trading
7 3 (8.82%) Microservices
7 3 (8.82%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) C++
3 7 (20.59%) C#
3 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
4 6 (17.65%) Rust
5 5 (14.71%) Java
6 4 (11.76%) SQL
7 2 (5.88%) F#
7 2 (5.88%) Go
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
8 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) CISA
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) COBIT
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) GRC
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Arista
1 1 (2.94%) Cisco