Quantitative Research
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Quantitative Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Quantitative Research 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 667 707 744
Rank change year-on-year +40 +37 +26
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Research 224 291 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 120 176 158
10th Percentile £29,750 £43,440 £38,037
25th Percentile £44,598 £68,438 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% +11.10%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £83,844
90th Percentile £168,750 £200,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £68,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -48.53% +51.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Research 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Quantitative Research
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Quantitative Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Research over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Research within the UK 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
England -19 174 £105,000 - 109
London +20 119 £133,750 +17.58% 96
UK excluding London +42 94 £35,000 -48.53% 16
Work from Home +30 90 £105,000 - 26
Scotland -34 27 - - 3
North of England +37 16 £49,612 -29.13% 4
South East +22 15 £31,500 -53.68% 5
Midlands +13 15 £35,000 -46.15% 1
North West -1 10 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
East Midlands - 8 £35,000 -
West Midlands +13 7 £32,750 -49.62% 1
East of England - 5 £50,527 - 2
Yorkshire +82 4 £35,413 -38.47%
South West -22 4 £44,225 +10.25% 1
Wales +9 3 - -
North East -1 2 £44,225 +10.56%

Quantitative Research
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 8 (3.57%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.34%) SAS
3 2 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (4.02%) InVision
4 9 (4.02%) Sketch
4 9 (4.02%) SPSS
5 6 (2.68%) UserZoom
6 5 (2.23%) Stata
7 3 (1.34%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.00%) AWS
1 56 (25.00%) Azure
2 43 (19.20%) GCP
3 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.68%) SurveyMonkey
4 4 (1.79%) Figma
4 4 (1.79%) Miro
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.45%) Contentsquare
5 1 (0.45%) GitHub
5 1 (0.45%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.45%) NuGet
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.68%) Intranet
2 4 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.89%) QGIS
3 2 (0.89%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.45%) Dremio
4 1 (0.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) JIRA
2 3 (1.34%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 100 (44.64%) Finance
2 59 (26.34%) Social Skills
3 51 (22.77%) Front Office
4 33 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (12.05%) Law
7 20 (8.93%) Banking
8 17 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (6.70%) Marketing
10 13 (5.80%) Investment Banking
10 13 (5.80%) Social Science
11 11 (4.91%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.13%) Legal
13 6 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.79%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.34%) Advertising
15 3 (1.34%) Retail
16 2 (0.89%) Electronics
17 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (34.38%) Developer
2 71 (31.70%) Quantitative Developer
3 62 (27.68%) Senior
4 51 (22.77%) User Researcher
5 47 (20.98%) Python Developer
6 33 (14.73%) Senior User Researcher
7 24 (10.71%) Finance Manager
8 23 (10.27%) Analyst
9 20 (8.93%) Lead
10 13 (5.80%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) User Experience Researcher
11 12 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Business Analyst
12 10 (4.46%) C++ Developer
12 10 (4.46%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 10 (4.46%) Consultant
13 8 (3.57%) Research Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) .NET
2 4 (1.79%) NumPy
2 4 (1.79%) Pandas
3 3 (1.34%) CSS
3 3 (1.34%) HTML
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Commons
5 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.45%) Dask
5 1 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.45%) gRPC
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 64 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 56 (25.00%) Equities
3 46 (20.54%) Fixed Income
4 45 (20.09%) Derivative
5 39 (17.41%) Product Ownership
6 14 (6.25%) Cloud Native
7 12 (5.36%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.46%) Data Structures
9 7 (3.13%) Market Risk
9 7 (3.13%) NHS
10 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.79%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.34%) Blog
12 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.45%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.34%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (51.34%) Agile
2 105 (46.88%) Qualitative Research
3 70 (31.25%) User Research
4 67 (29.91%) Software Engineering
5 54 (24.11%) Actionable Insight
6 49 (21.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 46 (20.54%) Workshop Facilitation
8 45 (20.09%) Asset Management
8 45 (20.09%) Decision-Making
9 44 (19.64%) Investment Management
10 42 (18.75%) Computer Science
11 39 (17.41%) Customer Experience
12 38 (16.96%) User Experience
13 36 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (14.73%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 33 (14.73%) Digital Customer Experience
14 33 (14.73%) Empathy Maps
14 33 (14.73%) Requirements Analysis
15 32 (14.29%) Mathematics
16 28 (12.50%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 93 (41.52%) Python
2 51 (22.77%) R
3 23 (10.27%) C++
3 23 (10.27%) Java
4 15 (6.70%) C#
5 13 (5.80%) SQL
6 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.89%) Ada
8 1 (0.45%) Dart
8 1 (0.45%) F#
8 1 (0.45%) Go
8 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.45%) Scala
8 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (33.93%) Degree
2 33 (14.73%) SC Cleared
2 33 (14.73%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.82%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.13%) PhD
5 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.11%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.46%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.34%) GDPR
3 3 (1.34%) PMO
3 3 (1.34%) QA
3 3 (1.34%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (17.41%) Bloomberg
2 22 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.80%) Qualtrics
4 7 (3.13%) Hotjar
5 6 (2.68%) Adobe
6 4 (1.79%) Mercator
7 2 (0.89%) Databricks
7 2 (0.89%) Google
8 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce