Systematic Trading Jobs in London

Systematic Trading (Mechanical Trading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Systematic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systematic Trading over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 544 860
Rank change year-on-year +75 +316 -227
Permanent jobs citing Systematic Trading 30 63 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.20% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.21% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 26 55 49
10th Percentile £67,375 £75,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £175,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +52.17% +48.39%
75th Percentile £142,500 £180,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £155,000 £215,000 £135,500
England median annual salary £122,500 £145,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -15.52% +26.09% +48.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Systematic 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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,784 30,521 71,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.99% 95.21% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15,935 22,372 34,275
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Systematic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Systematic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systematic Trading in London.

Salary trend for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systematic Trading in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Systematic Trading in London

Systematic Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systematic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +45 3 £100,000 +8.11% 1
Systematic Trading
England

Systematic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.33%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Python Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 2 (6.67%) Junior
6 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
7 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
7 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Quantitative Researcher
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Client/Server
2 8 (26.67%) Hedge funds
3 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (3.33%) Derivative
6 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
1 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Backtesting
3 6 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 6 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.33%) High Availability
5 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 4 (13.33%) Microservices
5 4 (13.33%) Quantitative Trading
6 3 (10.00%) Analytics
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (10.00%) Order Management
6 3 (10.00%) Physics
6 3 (10.00%) SDLC
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security
7 2 (6.67%) Data Science
7 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) F#
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) R
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 6 (20.00%) PhD
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet