Hybrid/Remote Systematic Trading Job Trends

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Systematic Trading skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 468 477
Rank change year-on-year +69 +9 +324
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 1 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% 0.035% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.040% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £112,250 £54,250
25th Percentile £140,000 £115,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 £127,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% +70.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £180,000 £135,000 £130,000
90th Percentile - - £142,750
UK median annual salary £117,500 £130,000 £147,500
% change year-on-year -9.62% -11.86% +18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Systematic 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 15,033 17,492 21,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.00% 88.21% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,524 10,410 17,059
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systematic Trading and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Systematic Trading job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systematic Trading.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systematic Trading

Systematic Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Rust Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (100.00%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) DeFi
1 1 (100.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Rust