High-Frequency Trading Jobs with Work from Home Options

High-Frequency Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for High-Frequency Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 670 783
Rank change year-on-year +95 +113 -227
Permanent jobs citing High-Frequency Trading 14 1 58
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.002% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.002% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 32
10th Percentile - - £83,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £135,000 £95,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £140,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £141,250 £145,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £163,750 - -
UK median annual salary £128,750 £100,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +28.75% -2.44% +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

High-Frequency Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,020 41,026 65,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.65% 96.08% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,575 28,496 41,288
10th Percentile £33,800 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

High-Frequency Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High-Frequency Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading.

High-Frequency Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency Trading
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing High-Frequency Trading over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

High-Frequency Trading salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High-Frequency 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle Database
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Back Office
3 8 (57.14%) Banking
3 8 (57.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) Applications Support
1 8 (57.14%) Applications Support Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C++ Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Programmer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (14.29%) WPF
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Equities
2 2 (14.29%) FPGA
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Unix
3 8 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
1 8 (57.14%) Change Management
1 8 (57.14%) Client Onboarding
1 8 (57.14%) Compliance Audit
1 8 (57.14%) Incident Management
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
1 8 (57.14%) Workflow
2 4 (28.57%) Market Making
3 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 2 (14.29%) Metaprogramming
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Proprietary Trading
4 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Algorithmics
1 8 (57.14%) IBM
1 8 (57.14%) ION Trading
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle