Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Systematic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 866 928 1133
Rank change year-on-year +62 +205 -250
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 28 61 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.058% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.061% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 25 54 46
10th Percentile £65,850 £75,000 £64,375
25th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £157,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +36.96% +64.29%
75th Percentile £142,500 £195,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £159,250 £250,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £52,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systematic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +93 28 £125,000 -20.63% 60
England +77 28 £125,000 -20.63% 61
Work from Home +111 12 £125,000 +100.00% 16

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 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Tick Data
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Front Office
4 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Junior
6 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.57%) React Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Hedge funds
2 8 (28.57%) Client/Server
3 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
6 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 7 (25.00%) Backtesting
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 6 (21.43%) High Availability
3 6 (21.43%) Mathematics
3 6 (21.43%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 4 (14.29%) Order Management
5 4 (14.29%) Physics
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.71%) Change Management
6 3 (10.71%) Fintech
6 3 (10.71%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Trading
6 3 (10.71%) SDLC
7 2 (7.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
2 5 (17.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat