Trade Surveillance Job Trends

Trade Surveillance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Trade Surveillance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 701 713
Rank change year-on-year +57 +12 +282
Permanent jobs citing Trade Surveillance 7 11 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.021% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.023% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 17
10th Percentile £89,000 £77,500 £80,000
25th Percentile £113,750 £81,875 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £132,500 £94,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% +4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £138,438 £118,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £144,625 £121,250 £126,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £41,500
% change year-on-year - - -48.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Trade Surveillance 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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
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 £78,000
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%

Trade Surveillance
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Trade Surveillance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Trade Surveillance job vacancy trend in the UK

Trade Surveillance
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Trade Surveillance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Trade Surveillance

Trade Surveillance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trade Surveillance over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Trade Surveillance in the UK

Trade Surveillance
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trade Surveillance within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +67 7 £132,500 +40.96% 2
London +50 5 £132,500 +40.96% 1
North West - 2 - -
UK excluding London - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - -
Work from Home +64 1 £75,000 -33.33% 2

Trade Surveillance
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Dagster
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) International Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (14.29%) Document Management
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) KYC
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) FINRA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft