Quantitative Analysis Contracts in England

Quantitative Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Quantitative Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 510 565
Rank change year-on-year +35 +55 +155
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 28 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.069% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 37
10th Percentile £315 £238 -
25th Percentile £407 £405 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -3.23% +46.23%
75th Percentile £850 £825 £915
90th Percentile £875 £998 £980
UK median daily rate £575 £725 £713
% change year-on-year -20.69% +1.75% +37.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £22.52 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £24.42 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.51% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £30.89 -
90th Percentile - £32.71 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £27.72 -
% change year-on-year +125.51% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Quantitative Analysis 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 25,197 28,779 40,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 85.84% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,128 18,858 28,367
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,701 1,412
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.16 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Quantitative Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Analysis in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Analysis in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Analysis in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Analysis in England.

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in England

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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 Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +16 22 £738 -4.84% 73
Yorkshire - 4 £300 - 2
North of England - 4 £300 - 4
South East - 1 - - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
1 6 (21.43%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Mining
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 16 (57.14%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Front Office
3 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (28.57%) Banking
5 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (17.86%) Back Office
7 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Data Scientist
4 5 (17.86%) Haskell Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Business Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) OCaml Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer - Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.57%) QC Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Qualitative Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Risk Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk
4 3 (10.71%) Derivative
5 2 (7.14%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Equities
6 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Analytics
2 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
3 8 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (17.86%) Data Science
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Model Validation
6 5 (17.86%) Physics
6 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) A/B Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
8 3 (10.71%) Business Case
8 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) C++
4 5 (17.86%) Haskell
5 4 (14.29%) MATLAB
5 4 (14.29%) R
6 3 (10.71%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) OCaml
7 2 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
1 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GLP
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 2 (7.14%) Spotify
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft