Energy Trading Quant & Analyst Jobs in Energy: Demand, Pay & Skills
Part of Plutarch’s ongoing analysis of skill demand in energy hiring — last updated 5 October 2026, based on 78 tracked postings.
As of 5 October 2026, Plutarch tracked 78 unique open Energy Trading Quant & Analyst postings at energy employers. 5 postings disclosed annual pay, with a United States median of USD 131,000.
Demand for Energy Trading Quant and Analyst talent is concentrated in the United States, with further notable hiring in the United Kingdom, Singapore, India and Denmark. Titles split fairly evenly between unspecified-level roles and senior or lead-level roles, with only a small slice of junior or intern openings and no executive-level hiring at all. The postings cover a wide spread of commodities and functions, from gas and power to LNG and freight, alongside quantitative risk, valuation and structuring work.
Open postings
Where
- United States · 27
- United Kingdom · 10
- Singapore · 6
- India · 5
- Denmark · 4
- Other or not stated · 26
Seniority
- Early career · 7
- Level not stated in title · 37
- Senior, lead, staff or manager · 34
Disclosed pay by country · annual
| Country | Lowest to highest employer midpoint | Median | Postings stating pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD 80,000–149,000 | USD 131,000 | 5 of 18 |
Directional, not conclusive. Each figure is the midpoint of a salary range an employer disclosed in a public job posting, derived from public market sources and rounded to the nearest thousand. Samples are small, so a country appears only when at least 5 open postings disclose annual pay. At these sample sizes, do not compare one role’s median against another’s — the difference between them is smaller than the error on either.
How many employers state pay
- United States · pay stated in 5 of 18 postings we could read
- United Kingdom · pay stated in 1 of 8 postings we could read
- Singapore · pay stated in 0 of 2 postings we could read
- India · pay stated in 0 of 5 postings we could read
- Denmark · pay stated in 0 of 3 postings we could read
Counted from the same open postings as above, leaving out postings whose text we could not read for pay. Pay disclosure tracks local pay-transparency law more closely than employer policy, so a low rate is not evidence that employers here pay less.
Who is hiring
| Employer | Open postings |
|---|---|
| ExxonMobil | 19 |
| Energy Exemplar | 8 |
| TotalEnergies | 6 |
| EDF Trading | 4 |
| NextEra Energy | 4 |
| ConocoPhillips | 3 |
| Ørsted | 3 |
| S&P Global | 3 |
| Brookfield | 2 |
| Constellation Energy | 2 |
| Exelon | 2 |
| Kpler | 2 |
| Other employers | 20 |
How these roles are titled
The titles employers use for this role, most repeated first. Titles shown without a count appeared once.
- Senior Quantitative Analyst · 3 postings
- Energy Trading Analyst · 2 postings
- Trading Analyst · 2 postings
- 2027 Summer Quantitative Analytics & Data Science Intern (Baltimore, MD)
- Analyst / Senior Quantitative Risk Analyst
- Associate Energy Market Analyst (Support)
- Associate/Senior Associate, Quantitative Investment Analyst, Portfolio Solutions
- Biofuel Trading Analyst
- CDI - Quantitative Machine Learning Engineer
- Energy Market Analyst (Support)
- European Power Market Analyst Intern
- Freight Trading Analyst, Asset Book
- Gas Market Analyst
- Gas Quant Structurer
- Gas Trading Analyst
What employers ask for
Skills and tools named in the text of 49 open postings we could read in full, most named first.
| Skill or tool | Postings naming it | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 38 of 49 | 21 |
| Energy trading / power markets | 32 of 49 | 15 |
| Statistics | 21 of 49 | 12 |
| Excel | 19 of 49 | 11 |
| SQL | 16 of 49 | 12 |
| Power systems / grid | 12 of 49 | 5 |
| Load, price or generation forecasting | 11 of 49 | 7 |
| Mathematical optimisation | 10 of 49 | 6 |
| Power BI | 9 of 49 | 6 |
| R | 9 of 49 | 6 |
| US ISO/RTO markets | 7 of 49 | 4 |
| MATLAB | 5 of 49 | 4 |
| Machine learning | 5 of 49 | 3 |
A skill counts when the posting names it anywhere — requirements, role description or the employer’s own introduction. A skill is shown only when at least 3 postings from at least two employers name it. Postings whose full text we did not read are left out of these counts rather than counted as asking for nothing.
Patterns in the job titles
- Quantitative analysis applied to gas and power markets
- LNG valuation and structuring expertise
- Quantitative risk modeling across commodities
- Market analysis roles covering power trading
- Trading analyst roles spanning general energy and freight markets
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What the postings suggest about filling this role
The heavy weighting toward senior, lead and principal-level titles suggests employers are competing for experienced quantitative talent rather than entry-level hires, which can lengthen time to fill. At the same time, the broad spread across commodities, geographies and specialized sub-domains like LNG and freight means candidate pools are fragmented, adding further difficulty relative to a more standardized role family.
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