Quantitative Finance Contract Job Trends in East London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Finance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.86% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 - -
London median daily rate £788 £775 £800
% change year-on-year +1.61% -3.13% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East London

Quantitative Finance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 133 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.97% 95.00% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 112 221
10th Percentile £190 £300 £250
25th Percentile £316 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £650
90th Percentile £925 £660 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £23.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -79.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £17.37
90th Percentile £75.89 - £18.31
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.67% -6.25% +5.44%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quantitative Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Quantitative Finance job vacancy trend in East London

Quantitative Finance
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Quantitative Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Quantitative Finance

Quantitative Finance
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Finance within the East London region over the 6 months to 17 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 1 £1,000 -
Quantitative Finance
London

Quantitative Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA