Hybrid/Remote Electronic Trading Developer Job Trends

Electronic Trading Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Electronic Trading Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £157,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 487 505
Rank change year-on-year +73 +18 +361
Permanent jobs requiring an Electronic Trading Developer 2 7 30
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.012% 0.030% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.031% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 17
10th Percentile £147,750 £117,000 -
25th Percentile £148,125 £120,000 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £157,500 £130,000 £137,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -5.45% +3.77%
75th Percentile £168,125 £135,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £169,250 - £162,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £135,000 £130,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.85% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 15,079 22,412 24,476
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 96.23% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,021 14,652 20,287
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Electronic Trading Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Electronic Trading Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Trading Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Electronic Trading Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Electronic Trading Developer job vacancies

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Electronic Trading Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Electronic Trading Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Market Making
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Tick Data
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science

Electronic Trading Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) KDB
1 1 (50.00%) Tick Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Market Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes