Quantitative Developer Contracts in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer daily rate in England is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 452 514
Rank change year-on-year +37 +62 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 64 94 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 75 94
10th Percentile £708 £688 £675
25th Percentile £750 £756 £758
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £900 £850
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £950 £1,038 £950
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,250 £1,146
UK median daily rate £850 £900 £850
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,424 33,720 45,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,926 22,354 32,457
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 2,424 1,347
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -1 64 £850 -5.56% 134
Quantitative Developer
UK

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Quantitative Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 47 (73.44%) Python
2 45 (70.31%) Finance
3 34 (53.13%) C++
4 31 (48.44%) Banking
5 25 (39.06%) Mathematics
6 21 (32.81%) Analytics
6 21 (32.81%) Derivative
7 20 (31.25%) Investment Banking
8 19 (29.69%) Degree
9 18 (28.13%) Front Office
10 16 (25.00%) Equities
11 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
12 14 (21.88%) Risk Management
13 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
13 12 (18.75%) Quantitative Finance
14 11 (17.19%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (17.19%) Algorithms
15 10 (15.63%) Equity Derivative
15 10 (15.63%) Java
16 9 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
17 8 (12.50%) SQL
17 8 (12.50%) Computer Science
18 7 (10.94%) Credit Risk
18 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
18 7 (10.94%) Azure
18 7 (10.94%) Linux
18 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
18 7 (10.94%) Low Latency

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.69%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Big Data
1 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Git
1 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (70.31%) Finance
2 31 (48.44%) Banking
3 20 (31.25%) Investment Banking
4 18 (28.13%) Front Office
5 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) NumPy
1 6 (9.38%) Pandas
2 4 (6.25%) PySpark
3 2 (3.13%) .NET
3 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.13%) Kafka
3 2 (3.13%) SciPy
4 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.56%) ADO
4 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.56%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (1.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Derivative
2 16 (25.00%) Equities
3 11 (17.19%) Algorithms
4 10 (15.63%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (10.94%) Credit Risk
6 6 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (9.38%) Market Risk
7 5 (7.81%) Hedge funds
8 4 (6.25%) Fixed Income
9 3 (4.69%) Grid Computing
10 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
10 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (3.13%) Solar Panel
10 2 (3.13%) TWAP
10 2 (3.13%) VWAP
11 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Mathematics
2 21 (32.81%) Analytics
3 14 (21.88%) Risk Management
4 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.75%) Quantitative Finance
5 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 7 (10.94%) Low Latency
8 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
9 6 (9.38%) Agile
9 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
9 6 (9.38%) Functional Programming
9 6 (9.38%) Mathematical Modelling
9 6 (9.38%) Quantitative Analysis
9 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.81%) Algorithmic Trading
10 5 (7.81%) Multithreading
10 5 (7.81%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 47 (73.44%) Python
2 34 (53.13%) C++
3 10 (15.63%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Haskell
6 5 (7.81%) C#
6 5 (7.81%) Rust
7 4 (6.25%) OCaml
7 4 (6.25%) Scala
8 2 (3.13%) C
8 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Degree
2 11 (17.19%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (9.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Basel II
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
1 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
1 2 (3.13%) Refinitiv
1 2 (3.13%) Reuters
2 1 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle
142 Quantitative Developer jobs Nationwide