Quantitative Trading Contract Job Trends in England

Quantitative Trading
UK > England

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 506 549
Rank change year-on-year -33 +43 +154
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Trading 10 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.032% 0.017% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.019% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £732 £845 £400
25th Percentile £767 £856 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £900 £850
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £888 £931 £881
90th Percentile £895 £935 £908
UK median daily rate £850 £900 £850
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Quantitative Trading 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quantitative Trading relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Quantitative Trading job vacancy trend in England

Quantitative Trading
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Quantitative Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Quantitative Trading

Quantitative Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
London -2 10 £850 -5.56% 4
Quantitative Trading
UK

Quantitative Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) KDB
1 1 (10.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (10.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Gradle
1 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (70.00%) Front Office
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 4 (40.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) KDB Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Equities
2 6 (60.00%) Derivative
2 6 (60.00%) TWAP
2 6 (60.00%) VWAP
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 8 (80.00%) Low Latency
2 7 (70.00%) Design Patterns
2 7 (70.00%) Multithreading
2 7 (70.00%) TDD
3 6 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (60.00%) Garbage Collection
3 6 (60.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 6 (60.00%) UML
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) OOD
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) E-business
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes