The first table below looks at the demand for the Quantitative Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Quantitative Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quant Developer
Rank 701 724 609
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 129 139 258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.128% 0.122% 0.221%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.135% 0.129% 0.234%
Number of salaries quoted 109 121 230
Average salary £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
10% offered a salary of more than £97,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £82,500 - £60,000
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95250 107641 110251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.45% 94.76% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80210 93021 93605
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Quantitative Developer
UK

Quantitative Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Quantitative Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Quantitative Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer across the England region.

England Quantitative Developer Salary Trend

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Quantitative Developer Salary Histogram

Quantitative Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +16 124 £75,000 -16.66%
Quantitative Developer
UK

Quantitative Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Quantitative Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Quantitative Developer in their job title.

1 163 (63.67%) C++
2 115 (44.92%) Finance
3 106 (41.41%) Mathematics
4 100 (39.06%) C#
5 91 (35.55%) Java
6 88 (34.38%) Front Office
7 83 (32.42%) Degree
8 81 (31.64%) Computer Science
9 77 (30.08%) Hedge funds
10 66 (25.78%) Algorithmic Trading
11 65 (25.39%) Analytics
12 63 (24.61%) Derivative
13 57 (22.27%) Fixed Income
14 56 (21.88%) Multithreading
15 53 (20.70%) PhD
16 50 (19.53%) MATLAB
17 48 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 46 (17.97%) OO
19 41 (16.02%) Python
19 41 (16.02%) Physics
20 39 (15.23%) VBA
21 33 (12.89%) Big Data
21 33 (12.89%) F#
22 27 (10.55%) Banking
23 25 (9.766%) SQL
23 25 (9.766%) Equities
23 25 (9.766%) Machine Learning
24 24 (9.375%) Hadoop
24 24 (9.375%) STL
25 23 (8.984%) Statistics

Quantitative Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Quantitative Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Quantitative Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (9.375%) STL
2 19 (7.422%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 9 (3.516%) .NET
4 8 (3.125%) WPF
5 7 (2.734%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (2.734%) Apache Avro
5 7 (2.734%) J2EE
5 7 (2.734%) JMS
5 7 (2.734%) WinForms
6 4 (1.563%) J2SE
7 3 (1.172%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.781%) WCF
8 2 (0.781%) ATL
8 2 (0.781%) COM
9 1 (0.391%) COM+
9 1 (0.391%) Ajax
9 1 (0.391%) Django
Application Platforms
1 7 (2.734%) Mathematica
2 5 (1.953%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 6 (2.344%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.781%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.734%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) Big Data
2 24 (9.375%) Hadoop
3 17 (6.641%) Apache Cassandra
4 15 (5.859%) KDB
5 14 (5.469%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.688%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.781%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.391%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.734%) Maven
1 7 (2.734%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 7 (2.734%) Git (software)
1 7 (2.734%) Hudson
2 5 (1.953%) JIRA
2 5 (1.953%) Selenium
3 2 (0.781%) JUnit
4 1 (0.391%) Ant
4 1 (0.391%) Jenkins
General
1 115 (44.92%) Finance
2 88 (34.38%) Front Office
3 27 (10.55%) Banking
4 13 (5.078%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.563%) Games
6 3 (1.172%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.391%) Marketing
7 1 (0.391%) Retail
7 1 (0.391%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 106 (41.41%) Mathematics
2 81 (31.64%) Computer Science
3 77 (30.08%) Hedge funds
4 63 (24.61%) Derivative
5 57 (22.27%) Fixed Income
6 48 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (16.02%) Physics
8 25 (9.766%) Equities
8 25 (9.766%) Machine Learning
9 23 (8.984%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 23 (8.984%) Statistics
10 19 (7.422%) Credit Risk
11 18 (7.031%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (3.125%) Credit Derivative
12 8 (3.125%) Management Information System
12 8 (3.125%) Grid Computing
12 8 (3.125%) Swaptions
13 7 (2.734%) Applied Mathematics
13 7 (2.734%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.953%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.031%) UNIX
2 15 (5.859%) Windows
3 12 (4.688%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.78%) Algorithmic Trading
2 65 (25.39%) Analytics
3 56 (21.88%) Multithreading
4 46 (17.97%) OO
5 22 (8.594%) Pattern Recognition
6 14 (5.469%) Electronic Trading
7 12 (4.688%) Risk Management
8 11 (4.297%) Financial Modelling
9 7 (2.734%) Monte Carlo Method
9 7 (2.734%) Software Engineering
9 7 (2.734%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (2.734%) TDD
10 6 (2.344%) RAD
11 5 (1.953%) Data Analysis
11 5 (1.953%) Computer Architecture
12 4 (1.563%) Stress Testing
12 4 (1.563%) Investment Management
12 4 (1.563%) Regression Analysis
12 4 (1.563%) Statistical Analysis
12 4 (1.563%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (63.67%) C++
2 100 (39.06%) C#
3 91 (35.55%) Java
4 50 (19.53%) MATLAB
5 41 (16.02%) Python
6 39 (15.23%) VBA
7 33 (12.89%) F#
8 25 (9.766%) SQL
9 11 (4.297%) R
10 10 (3.906%) C
11 8 (3.125%) Perl
12 5 (1.953%) Groovy
13 4 (1.563%) Ruby
14 2 (0.781%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.391%) PHP
15 1 (0.391%) Haskell
15 1 (0.391%) Erlang
15 1 (0.391%) Scala
15 1 (0.391%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 83 (32.42%) Degree
2 53 (20.70%) PhD
3 2 (0.781%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.391%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.781%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (2.734%) MOM
2 5 (1.953%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (5.469%) Sybase
2 9 (3.516%) Oracle
3 7 (2.734%) Facebook
3 7 (2.734%) Reuters
3 7 (2.734%) Bloomberg
4 5 (1.953%) StatPro
4 5 (1.953%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.953%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.781%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.781%) Google
London
This is a global team responsible for the real-time pricing / analytics functionality for the broker as well as producing prices external distribution to Bloomberg, Reuters and external...
Real Staffing
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
With teams in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney the teams work relentlessly, directly, and iteratively with desks all over the world to provide innovative,...
ITHR
Salary: £75000 - £90000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Global Investment bank based in London, seeking an extremely strong Excel VBA Developer with exceptional business knowledge, specifically in Interest Rate Derivatives and/or FX Options... The main...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Must Have Fixed Income Knowledge - Must Have. Knowledge of Reuters and/or Bloomberg - Must Have... - Must Have Strong object orientated skills - Beneficial. Knowledge of C++ or C# - Beneficial.....
Harrington Starr
Salary: £75000 - £100000 per annum + Package + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
TIBCO RV) - Beneficial This is an excellent opportunity to join a global and leading company within this space... RAD Development, Tibco etc.) and benefit from excellent training and...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £75000 - £100000 per annum + Package + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
Leeds, North West
Any experience with the following will benefit your application: MySQL (or similar RDBMS), multithreading, optimisation, OOD, Maven, SVN, R... Keywords: Maths, stats, 1st, 2:1, PhD, Java, OO,...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Negotiable dep. on experience
Posted: 23 April 2013
City of London
55,000- £70,000 + Extremely Competitive Bonus and Benefits Package(PhD, MATLAB, Big Data, Hadoop, MACHINE LEARNING) This is an exciting front office role for a strong Quantitative...
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Competitive Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Global financial institution requires a highly skilled Python developer who is comfortable working close with Quants. You must also have a strong infrastructure background working on High Performance...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £90 - £110000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Quant Developer (Core Java, J2EE, Multi-threading, RDBMS, Big Data, Hadoop, Python, Scripting, Groovy, Matlab, StatPro, FactSet, Redis, Avro, Stax, Protobuf, JMS, Git, Maven, Hudson, Bamboo, Jira, Puppet,...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Quant Developer (Core Java, J2EE, Multi-threading, RDBMS, Big Data, Hadoop, Python, Scripting, Groovy, Matlab, StatPro, FactSet, Redis, Avro, Stax, Protobuf, JMS, Git, Maven, Hudson, Bamboo, Jira, Puppet,...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013