Automated Trading Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Automated Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Automated Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Automated 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 409 574 629
Rank change year-on-year +165 +55 +172
Permanent jobs citing Automated Trading 4 15 42
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.044% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.048% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 38
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31,250 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.42% +80.95%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £97,500
90th Percentile - - £98,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Automated 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%

Automated Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Automated Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Automated Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automated 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 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) GemFire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (75.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Front Office
2 3 (75.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Server Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Credit Derivative
1 3 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
1 3 (75.00%) Equities
1 3 (75.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (75.00%) Business Development
2 3 (75.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (75.00%) Market Making
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Linear Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Solace
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO