Smart Order Routing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Smart Order Routing (SOR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Smart Order Routing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart Order Routing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 - 639
Rank change year-on-year - - +233
Permanent jobs citing Smart Order Routing 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.005% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £61,800
25th Percentile £127,500 - £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £142,500 - £104,375
90th Percentile - - £123,750
UK median annual salary £135,000 £100,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Smart Order Routing 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 17,749 31,137 38,086
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.99% 90.42% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,374 23,468 26,396
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,871
Median % change year-on-year - -8.54% +4.79%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Smart Order Routing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Smart Order Routing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Smart Order Routing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Smart Order Routing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Smart Order Routing.

Smart Order Routing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Order Routing
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Flex Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Solace