Quantitative Trading Contracts in London

Quantitative Trading
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Quantitative Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Quantitative Trading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 491 591
Rank change year-on-year +108 +100 -118
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Trading 5 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.037% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.041% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 14
10th Percentile - £693 £700
25th Percentile £800 £763 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £775 £900
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +22.03%
75th Percentile £900 £956 -
90th Percentile - £1,400 -
England median daily rate £850 £775 £900
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +22.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Quantitative Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Trading in London.

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Central London +45 5 £850 -8.11% 3
Quantitative Trading
England

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Backtesting
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++