Quantitative Trading Contract Job Trends in London

Quantitative Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 364 397
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +135
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Trading 10 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.033% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.037% 0.047%
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
England median daily rate £850 £900 £850
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Quantitative Trading job vacancy trend in London

Quantitative Trading
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Quantitative Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 18 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
South London - 2 £850 -
Quantitative Trading
England

Quantitative Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

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