Quantitative Analysis Contracts in London

Quantitative Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 375 441
Rank change year-on-year +62 +66 +105
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 40 16 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.090% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 5 37
10th Percentile £403 £315 £435
25th Percentile £500 £405 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +58.82%
75th Percentile £875 £520 £915
90th Percentile £938 £553 £980
England median daily rate £675 £450 £675
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £10.42 -
England median hourly rate - £10.42 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Analysis in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Analysis in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in London

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) SAS
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.50%) Collibra
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Power BI
1 8 (20.00%) Tableau
2 6 (15.00%) Data Mining
3 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 4 (10.00%) QlikView
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (67.50%) Finance
2 23 (57.50%) Front Office
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Marketing
6 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.50%) Back Office
8 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.50%) Games
8 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Legal
8 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Analyst
2 20 (50.00%) Product Manager
3 19 (47.50%) Business Analyst
4 18 (45.00%) Business Manager
4 18 (45.00%) Product Analyst
4 18 (45.00%) Product Business Analyst
5 7 (17.50%) Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Data Analyst
7 5 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (10.00%) Data Scientist
9 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Data Quality Analyst
10 2 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
10 2 (5.00%) SAS Analyst
10 2 (5.00%) SAS Data Analyst
11 1 (2.50%) Commercial Analyst
11 1 (2.50%) Operations Analyst
11 1 (2.50%) Risk Analyst
11 1 (2.50%) Risk Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Derivative
2 19 (47.50%) Equities
3 18 (45.00%) Fixed Income
3 18 (45.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (45.00%) Hedge funds
3 18 (45.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (10.00%) Reference Data
5 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.50%) Taxonomies
6 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.00%) Credit Risk
6 2 (5.00%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Analytics
2 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 21 (52.50%) Roadmaps
3 19 (47.50%) Asset Management
3 19 (47.50%) Machine Learning
4 18 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (45.00%) Front End Development
4 18 (45.00%) Investment Management
4 18 (45.00%) Order Management
4 18 (45.00%) Portfolio Management
4 18 (45.00%) Risk Analytics
5 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
6 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
7 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 5 (12.50%) Data Science
7 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.50%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) C++
4 3 (7.50%) R
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.50%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.00%) MBA
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Ab Initio
1 3 (7.50%) Databricks
1 3 (7.50%) IBM
1 3 (7.50%) Informatica
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Spotify
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian