Your desk and your developers, speaking one language.
In London a Head of Trading Technology earns £130k to £200k base. When a number is wrong at 07:30, the call comes to you.
See the planIndicative pay, London 2026. Sources: August 2026 postings, as in the career guide.
Your week
A number is wrong at 07:30, and the head of trading calls you.
A trader asks for one thing, and your developers build another.
The board wants build or buy for the ETRM, argued with numbers.
What to learn
The career guide's four stages: understand the desk, run the plumbing, build it, lead it.
Standard
Energy Trading Fundamentals
How energy markets work, from the power station up.
- How power is generated and priced: the merit order and the marginal plant.
- Gas: LNG, storage, NBP and TTF. The spark spread.
- Positions, delta exposure, forward curves and mark-to-market P&L.
- Order books, interconnectors, carbon, limits and VaR.
You come away able to follow a desk's talk of positions, curves and P&L, and to say where each number comes from.
Standard
The Practitioner Track
The instruments and processes, as a desk runs them.
- Day-ahead and intraday power, imbalance, and trading gas in Great Britain.
- Swaps and options: Black 76 and the Greeks.
- EFET and ISDA agreements, PPAs, cross-border capacity and FTRs.
- REMIT, EMIR and MiFID II. Power trading strategies.
- A trade from capture to settlement. The nightly curve run.
You come away able to read a PPA term sheet and follow a trade to settlement.
Standard
Python for Commodities
Python written the way a trading system needs it.
- Structure, data modelling and tests, with every example from trading.
- The clock-change days, money in Decimal, and strict validation at the boundary.
- Tests that protect money, reruns that agree, and audit records.
You come away able to write a nightly settlement and P&L job you can rerun and explain.
Premium
The Systems Builder Track
Projects that build on each other. I review every pull request.
- A price curve simulator: mean reversion, a command line, tests, merit-order dispatch.
- A position and P&L engine: trade ingestion, aggregation, delta and mark-to-market.
- A toy power exchange: an order book, continuous matching, a day-ahead auction and an API.
You come away with working code on GitHub that you can walk an interviewer through.
In their words
"Jordan spent a handful of days with us in a combination of group sessions and individual coaching for the development team. Feedback from all of us was great."
Where to start
VIP, because the whole team learns the trade together, on one invoice.
VIP
Train your team.
$18,700 a year
For your organisation.
- Premium for up to 15 people in your organisation.
- A monthly call with your team.
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I built the trading platforms behind six desks at Shell, and at Centrica and Limejump.
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