Quantitative Developer Contracts

Quant Developer
UK

The median Quant Developer daily rate in the UK is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 566 727
Rank change year-on-year +74 +161 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 92 130 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 97 108
10th Percentile £688 £675 £675
25th Percentile £753 £757 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £1,038 £950 £875
90th Percentile £1,250 £1,105 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate - £1,125 £675
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,482 54,195 83,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,839 58,825
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,507 2,030
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.21 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Developer.

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 92 £900 +5.88% 87
London +65 90 £900 +5.88% 85
Work from Home +109 46 £881 +0.14% 28
UK excluding London +46 2 - - 22
South East +17 2 - - 22

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Quantitative Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 61 (66.30%) Python
2 60 (65.22%) Finance
3 41 (44.57%) Front Office
4 38 (41.30%) Derivative
5 33 (35.87%) Fixed Income
6 29 (31.52%) Azure
7 28 (30.43%) Java
7 28 (30.43%) Banking
8 26 (28.26%) C++
9 25 (27.17%) Agile
9 25 (27.17%) AWS
9 25 (27.17%) Hedge funds
10 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (26.09%) Software Engineering
10 24 (26.09%) C#
11 22 (23.91%) Investment Banking
12 21 (22.83%) Mathematics
12 21 (22.83%) SQL
12 21 (22.83%) Equities
13 19 (20.65%) DevOps
14 18 (19.57%) Degree
14 18 (19.57%) Asset Management
14 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (18.48%) Quantitative Research
16 16 (17.39%) Algorithms
16 16 (17.39%) Analytics
16 16 (17.39%) R
16 16 (17.39%) Algorithmic Trading
17 15 (16.30%) Investment Management
17 15 (16.30%) GCP

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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 1 (1.09%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.09%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.52%) Azure
2 25 (27.17%) AWS
3 15 (16.30%) GCP
4 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.87%) GitHub
5 2 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.78%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (65.22%) Finance
2 41 (44.57%) Front Office
3 28 (30.43%) Banking
4 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (23.91%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.43%) Retail Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Social Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) NumPy
1 13 (14.13%) Pandas
2 12 (13.04%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (11.96%) SciPy
4 5 (5.43%) .NET
5 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.17%) Matplotlib
5 2 (2.17%) React
6 1 (1.09%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 38 (41.30%) Derivative
2 33 (35.87%) Fixed Income
3 25 (27.17%) Hedge funds
4 21 (22.83%) Equities
5 16 (17.39%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.52%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.26%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.17%) Solar Panel
9 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Agile
2 24 (26.09%) Software Engineering
3 21 (22.83%) Mathematics
4 19 (20.65%) DevOps
5 18 (19.57%) Asset Management
5 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.48%) Quantitative Research
7 16 (17.39%) Algorithmic Trading
7 16 (17.39%) Analytics
8 15 (16.30%) Investment Management
9 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.22%) Computer Science
10 13 (14.13%) Electronic Trading
11 12 (13.04%) Quantitative Finance
12 11 (11.96%) SDLC
12 11 (11.96%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (10.87%) Product Requirements
14 9 (9.78%) Backtesting
15 8 (8.70%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 61 (66.30%) Python
2 28 (30.43%) Java
3 26 (28.26%) C++
4 24 (26.09%) C#
5 21 (22.83%) SQL
6 16 (17.39%) R
7 10 (10.87%) Rust
8 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.17%) Scala
9 1 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) IFRS
1 1 (1.09%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.09%) IBM
2 1 (1.09%) Solace
2 1 (1.09%) TIBCO