Algorithmic Trading Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Algo Trading
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 554 639
Rank change year-on-year +157 +85 +71
Permanent jobs citing Algorithmic Trading 16 35 32
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.10% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 28
10th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £75,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -22.73% +3.53%
75th Percentile £151,875 £144,375 £148,125
90th Percentile £173,250 £168,125 £180,000
UK median annual salary £140,000 £135,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +31.71% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Algorithmic 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Algorithmic Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Algorithmic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Algorithmic Trading trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Algorithmic Trading.

Algorithmic Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithmic Trading
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Algorithmic Trading over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Algorithmic Trading salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithmic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
1 3 (18.75%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (18.75%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
1 3 (18.75%) Redis
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
1 3 (18.75%) MSTest
1 3 (18.75%) NUnit
1 3 (18.75%) SpecFlow
1 3 (18.75%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
1 8 (50.00%) Front Office
2 6 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (18.75%) Advertising
4 2 (12.50%) Back Office
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Server Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Server Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Flex Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) CSS3
1 3 (18.75%) Electron
1 3 (18.75%) Highcharts JS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) HTML5
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) LESS
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) NgRx
1 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (18.75%) Reactive Extensions
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) RxJS
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) WPF
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Equities
1 9 (56.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (37.50%) Credit Derivative
3 6 (37.50%) Derivative
3 6 (37.50%) Fixed Income
4 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
5 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (37.50%) Low Latency
2 6 (37.50%) OO
2 6 (37.50%) OOP
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Market Making
4 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (18.75%) Automated Trading
5 3 (18.75%) Data Acquisition
5 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Use Case
5 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) Solace
1 3 (18.75%) TIBCO