The first table below looks at the demand for the Quantitative Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 21 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quant Developer
Rank 733 748 622
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 127 139 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.117% 0.115% 0.208%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.124% 0.121% 0.221%
Number of salaries quoted 107 121 227
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 £56,500 £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
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Quantitative Developer Salary Trend

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Quantitative Developer Salary Histogram

Quantitative Developer
Top 3 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -3 127 £75,000 -16.66%
London +14 122 £75,000 -16.66%
City of London -10 19 £62,500 -34.21%

Quantitative Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 167 (63.02%) C++
2 121 (45.66%) Finance
3 109 (41.13%) C#
3 109 (41.13%) Mathematics
4 96 (36.23%) Java
4 96 (36.23%) Front Office
5 92 (34.72%) Degree
6 81 (30.57%) Computer Science
7 78 (29.43%) Hedge funds
8 69 (26.04%) Derivative
9 68 (25.66%) Analytics
10 66 (24.91%) Algorithmic Trading
11 59 (22.26%) PhD
12 58 (21.89%) Fixed Income
13 57 (21.51%) Multithreading
14 54 (20.38%) OO
15 51 (19.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 50 (18.87%) MATLAB
17 45 (16.98%) Python
17 45 (16.98%) VBA
18 42 (15.85%) Physics
19 34 (12.83%) F#
20 33 (12.45%) Big Data
21 28 (10.57%) Equities
22 27 (10.19%) Banking
23 25 (9.434%) SQL
23 25 (9.434%) Machine Learning
24 24 (9.057%) Hadoop
24 24 (9.057%) STL
24 24 (9.057%) Interest Rate Derivative

Quantitative Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 (9.057%) STL
2 19 (7.170%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 10 (3.774%) .NET
4 9 (3.396%) WPF
5 7 (2.642%) J2EE
5 7 (2.642%) JMS
5 7 (2.642%) WinForms
5 7 (2.642%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (2.642%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.509%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.509%) J2SE
7 3 (1.132%) ATL
7 3 (1.132%) COM
7 3 (1.132%) Middleware
8 2 (0.755%) WCF
9 1 (0.377%) COM+
9 1 (0.377%) Ajax
9 1 (0.377%) Django
Application Platforms
1 7 (2.642%) Mathematica
2 5 (1.887%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 10 (3.774%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.755%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.642%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.45%) Big Data
2 24 (9.057%) Hadoop
3 17 (6.415%) Apache Cassandra
4 15 (5.660%) KDB
5 14 (5.283%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.528%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.755%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.377%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.642%) Maven
1 7 (2.642%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 7 (2.642%) Git (software)
1 7 (2.642%) Hudson
2 5 (1.887%) Selenium
2 5 (1.887%) JIRA
3 2 (0.755%) JUnit
4 1 (0.377%) Ant
4 1 (0.377%) Jenkins
General
1 121 (45.66%) Finance
2 96 (36.23%) Front Office
3 27 (10.19%) Banking
4 14 (5.283%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.509%) Games
6 3 (1.132%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.377%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.377%) Retail
7 1 (0.377%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 109 (41.13%) Mathematics
2 81 (30.57%) Computer Science
3 78 (29.43%) Hedge funds
4 69 (26.04%) Derivative
5 58 (21.89%) Fixed Income
6 51 (19.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 42 (15.85%) Physics
8 28 (10.57%) Equities
9 25 (9.434%) Machine Learning
10 24 (9.057%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 23 (8.679%) Statistics
12 19 (7.170%) Credit Risk
13 18 (6.792%) Equity Derivative
14 9 (3.396%) Grid Computing
14 9 (3.396%) Swaptions
15 8 (3.019%) Applied Mathematics
15 8 (3.019%) Credit Derivative
15 8 (3.019%) Management Information System
16 7 (2.642%) Enterprise Software
17 5 (1.887%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.792%) UNIX
2 15 (5.660%) Windows
3 12 (4.528%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.66%) Analytics
2 66 (24.91%) Algorithmic Trading
3 57 (21.51%) Multithreading
4 54 (20.38%) OO
5 22 (8.302%) Pattern Recognition
6 14 (5.283%) Electronic Trading
7 12 (4.528%) Risk Management
7 12 (4.528%) Financial Modelling
8 7 (2.642%) OOP
8 7 (2.642%) Software Engineering
8 7 (2.642%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (2.642%) TDD
8 7 (2.642%) Monte Carlo Method
9 6 (2.264%) RAD
10 5 (1.887%) Data Analysis
10 5 (1.887%) Computer Architecture
11 4 (1.509%) Investment Management
11 4 (1.509%) Regression Analysis
11 4 (1.509%) Risk Analytics
11 4 (1.509%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 167 (63.02%) C++
2 109 (41.13%) C#
3 96 (36.23%) Java
4 50 (18.87%) MATLAB
5 45 (16.98%) Python
5 45 (16.98%) VBA
6 34 (12.83%) F#
7 25 (9.434%) SQL
8 12 (4.528%) C
9 11 (4.151%) R
10 8 (3.019%) Perl
11 5 (1.887%) Groovy
12 4 (1.509%) Ruby
13 2 (0.755%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.377%) PHP
14 1 (0.377%) Lisp
14 1 (0.377%) Haskell
14 1 (0.377%) Erlang
14 1 (0.377%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (34.72%) Degree
2 59 (22.26%) PhD
3 2 (0.755%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.377%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.755%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (2.642%) MOM
2 5 (1.887%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (5.283%) Sybase
2 9 (3.396%) Oracle
3 7 (2.642%) Reuters
3 7 (2.642%) Bloomberg
3 7 (2.642%) Facebook
4 6 (2.264%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.887%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.887%) StatPro
5 5 (1.887%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.755%) Google
7 1 (0.377%) DataSynapse
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
London
A global Financial Institution is seeking a C++ Developer... In order to succeed in this position you should demonstrate the following - Expert level software development skills in C++ (...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 20 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
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, 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