Quantitative Trading Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quantitative Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 663 828
Rank change year-on-year +100 +165 -279
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 20 13 16
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.031% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.032% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 4
10th Percentile £87,000 £78,750 £77,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £85,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £127,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.50% -31.03%
75th Percentile £170,000 £141,250 £120,000
90th Percentile - £145,000 £138,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £120,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +37.14% -27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,001 40,855 65,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.62% 96.09% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,546 28,388 41,415
10th Percentile £33,759 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Quantitative Trading
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Trading trend for jobs with a WFH option

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Quantitative Trading.

Quantitative Trading salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Quantitative Trading over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Quantitative Trading salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DHCP
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) BGP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) OSPF
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) DTrace
1 5 (25.00%) GDB
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) C++ Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Technologist
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (75.00%) Client/Server
2 5 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (20.00%) Hedge funds
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (15.00%) Equities
4 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (10.00%) FPGA
5 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Low Latency
4 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Algorithmic Trading
7 3 (15.00%) Change Management
7 3 (15.00%) Quantitative Finance
7 3 (15.00%) SDLC
7 3 (15.00%) Systematic Trading
8 2 (10.00%) Backtesting
8 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (10.00%) Cryptocurrency
8 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
8 2 (10.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) C
2 5 (25.00%) C++
2 5 (25.00%) OCaml
2 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (25.00%) SystemTap
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CCIE
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Juniper