Quantitative Trading Jobs in London

Quantitative Trading
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 600 862
Rank change year-on-year +141 +262 -320
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 47 30 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.087% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.091% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 36 20 3
10th Percentile £75,000 £75,750 -
25th Percentile £97,500 £87,188 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £123,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +23.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £158,750 £140,625 £130,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £145,625 £142,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year -7.07% +23.75% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,537 32,863 65,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.17% 95.33% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15,985 23,589 34,129
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +53 7 £105,000 +23.53% 3
West London - 1 - -
Quantitative Trading
England

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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%) Issue Tracking
9 3 (6.38%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Finance
9 3 (6.38%) SDLC
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