Electronic Trading Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Electronic Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 511 504
Rank change year-on-year +115 -7 +243
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 24 74 156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 150
10th Percentile £102,100 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £121,250 £61,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £145,000 £120,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +26.32% +4.77%
75th Percentile £162,500 £140,000 £124,688
90th Percentile - £162,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £120,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -8.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Electronic 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 14,384 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.29% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,737 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £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%

Electronic Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Electronic Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Electronic Trading salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Electronic 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) GemFire
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) npm
2 2 (8.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
1 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
1 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 3 (12.50%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Ant
1 2 (8.33%) Babel
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (8.33%) webpack
2 1 (4.17%) Gradle
General
1 20 (83.33%) Front Office
2 10 (41.67%) Banking
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 6 (25.00%) Law
5 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Agriculture
6 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 13 (54.17%) Java Developer
3 11 (45.83%) Front Office Developer
4 9 (37.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 9 (37.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 9 (37.50%) Senior
5 6 (25.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (16.67%) C# Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Java Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Java Server Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Server Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 2 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Flex Developer
8 2 (8.33%) UI Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (20.83%) Middleware
3 4 (16.67%) .NET
3 4 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.33%) CSS
5 2 (8.33%) CSS3
5 2 (8.33%) HTML
5 2 (8.33%) HTML5
5 2 (8.33%) Material-UI
5 2 (8.33%) MobX
5 2 (8.33%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Redux
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) Semantic UI
5 2 (8.33%) WPF
6 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (20.83%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Equities
2 5 (20.83%) Fixed Income
3 3 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.50%) Derivative
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Low Latency
2 11 (45.83%) TDD
3 7 (29.17%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 6 (25.00%) Market Making
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Multithreading
6 4 (16.67%) Business Development
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) OO
7 3 (12.50%) OOP
7 3 (12.50%) Use Case
7 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C++
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Solace
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
3 1 (4.17%) NYFIX
3 1 (4.17%) Sun