Electronic Trading Jobs

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic 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 699 593 934
Rank change year-on-year -106 +341 -266
Permanent jobs citing Electronic Trading 207 385 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.41% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 139 348 244
10th Percentile £27,000 £56,750 £64,125
25th Percentile £61,875 £70,735 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £127,813
90th Percentile £162,500 £157,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £76,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -61.97% +12.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Electronic 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronic Trading in the UK

Electronic Trading
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the UK 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
England -100 175 £120,000 +20.00% 65
London -57 153 £135,000 +35.00% 63
Work from Home -43 55 £120,000 +26.32% 16
UK excluding London +9 49 £29,000 -61.97% 1
Scotland -42 27 - -
Yorkshire - 20 £29,000 -
North of England - 20 £29,000 -
South East - 2 £55,000 - 1

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.04%) BlazeMeter
2 19 (9.18%) AWS
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.48%) Serverless
3 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.97%) DHCP
2 2 (0.97%) DNS
2 2 (0.97%) LAN
2 2 (0.97%) SNMP
2 2 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.80%) MySQL
2 11 (5.31%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.45%) KDB
4 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (13.04%) JMeter
2 19 (9.18%) JIRA
3 17 (8.21%) Maven
4 12 (5.80%) Git
5 9 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.35%) Gradle
5 9 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.42%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.45%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.97%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 95 (45.89%) Finance
1 95 (45.89%) Front Office
2 80 (38.65%) Social Skills
3 61 (29.47%) Banking
4 52 (25.12%) Investment Banking
5 38 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (13.04%) Law
6 27 (13.04%) Marketing
7 21 (10.14%) Legal
8 20 (9.66%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.76%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Back Office
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (42.51%) Developer
2 51 (24.64%) Analyst
3 49 (23.67%) Java Developer
4 46 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 41 (19.81%) Java Engineer
5 41 (19.81%) Java Software Engineer
6 39 (18.84%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 31 (14.98%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 21 (10.14%) Governance Analyst
9 20 (9.66%) Senior
10 19 (9.18%) Full Stack Engineer
11 18 (8.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 17 (8.21%) Quantitative Developer
13 13 (6.28%) Electronic Trading Support
13 13 (6.28%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.80%) Business Analyst
14 12 (5.80%) Lead
14 12 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (5.31%) Java Quantitative Developer
16 10 (4.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.91%) React
2 32 (15.46%) Spring
3 24 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 23 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (6.76%) REST
6 10 (4.83%) Kafka
7 9 (4.35%) Ext JS
8 8 (3.86%) .NET
9 6 (2.90%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.42%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.93%) Middleware
11 4 (1.93%) Rendezvous
12 2 (0.97%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.97%) HTML
12 2 (0.97%) LDAP
12 2 (0.97%) Playwright
12 2 (0.97%) Web Services
13 1 (0.48%) CSS
13 1 (0.48%) J2EE
13 1 (0.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (19.81%) Fixed Income
3 27 (13.04%) Market Risk
4 22 (10.63%) Equities
5 20 (9.66%) Hedge funds
5 20 (9.66%) Reinsurance
6 15 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (5.80%) Client/Server
7 12 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.38%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.45%) Derivative
10 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.45%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.45%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.97%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.56%) Linux
2 13 (6.28%) Unix
3 6 (2.90%) Windows
4 5 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.97%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.65%) Agile
2 62 (29.95%) Low Latency
3 55 (26.57%) Software Engineering
3 55 (26.57%) TDD
4 44 (21.26%) Multithreading
4 44 (21.26%) Test Automation
5 40 (19.32%) Microservices
6 35 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (16.43%) Algorithmic Trading
7 34 (16.43%) Full Stack Development
8 32 (15.46%) CI/CD
8 32 (15.46%) Risk Management
9 29 (14.01%) Computer Science
9 29 (14.01%) SDLC
10 28 (13.53%) OO
11 27 (13.04%) BDD
11 27 (13.04%) Operational Stability
12 26 (12.56%) Customer Service
13 21 (10.14%) High-Frequency Trading
14 19 (9.18%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 119 (57.49%) Java
2 55 (26.57%) SQL
3 33 (15.94%) Python
4 21 (10.14%) C#
5 19 (9.18%) Rust
6 11 (5.31%) C++
6 11 (5.31%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.86%) Perl
7 8 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.48%) F#
Qualifications
1 38 (18.36%) Degree
2 10 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.48%) CFA
4 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.31%) QA
2 6 (2.90%) SLA
3 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (5.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.86%) Ansible
3 3 (1.45%) Nmap
4 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (6.28%) Bloomberg
2 9 (4.35%) TOWER Software
3 8 (3.86%) ION Trading
4 7 (3.38%) FFastFill
4 7 (3.38%) Refinitiv
5 5 (2.42%) Oracle
6 4 (1.93%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.45%) Murex
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) F5
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.97%) Sybase
9 1 (0.48%) Reuters