Quantitative Trading Jobs in England

Quantitative Trading
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Quantitative Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Quantitative Trading over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 784 900 1108
Rank change year-on-year +116 +208 -309
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 47 29 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.032% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.034% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 36 19 4
10th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £77,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £84,375 £85,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +27.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £158,750 £141,250 £120,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £146,250 £138,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £127,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +45.71% -27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Quantitative 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,404 86,015 127,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.48% 95.62% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,973 50,951 72,982
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +133 47 £115,000 -9.80% 51
Quantitative Trading
UK

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) AWS
2 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (6.38%) GCP
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DHCP
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 2 (4.26%) BGP
2 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) OSPF
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) DTrace
1 5 (10.64%) GDB
General
1 23 (48.94%) Finance
2 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Front Office
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 16 (34.04%) Quantitative Developer
3 13 (27.66%) C++ Developer
4 11 (23.40%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 11 (23.40%) Python Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) SQL Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) STL
2 1 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Hedge funds
2 15 (31.91%) Client/Server
3 8 (17.02%) Algorithms
3 8 (17.02%) Data Structures
4 5 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.51%) Equities
5 4 (8.51%) Virtual Team
6 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
7 2 (4.26%) FPGA
7 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Unix
3 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (36.17%) Computer Science
3 16 (34.04%) Algorithmic Trading
4 11 (23.40%) Low Latency
5 10 (21.28%) Quantitative Research
6 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
7 5 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (10.64%) DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Mathematics
7 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.51%) Analytics
8 4 (8.51%) Cryptocurrency
8 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.51%) Systematic Trading
9 3 (6.38%) Backtesting
9 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.38%) Issue Tracking
9 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) C++
3 6 (12.77%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) C
4 5 (10.64%) OCaml
4 5 (10.64%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.64%) SystemTap
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) CCIE
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Cisco
2 2 (4.26%) Juniper