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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 385 431
Rank change year-on-year +48 +46 +134
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 24 18 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 36
10th Percentile £390 £270 -
25th Percentile £431 £439 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £775 £788
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% -1.59% +59.90%
75th Percentile £850 £828 £918
90th Percentile £884 £1,018 £981
England median daily rate £550 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -26.67% -3.23% +51.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £27.72 -
% change year-on-year +125.51% - -

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 12,560 15,227 22,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.08% 88.73% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,413 10,823 16,522
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £678 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 258 252
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.25 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.98 £23.49
Median hourly rate £30.81 £33.29 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -19.80% +16.90%
75th Percentile £50.25 £50.63 £65.33
90th Percentile £63.55 £70.03 £82.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

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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 19 July 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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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 Analysis within the London region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Central London +1 1 - - 2
Quantitative Analysis
England

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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 6 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Mining
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) Tableau
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Front Office
3 8 (33.33%) Banking
4 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Back Office
7 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (4.17%) Games
8 1 (4.17%) Legal
8 1 (4.17%) Marketing
8 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Retail
8 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Haskell Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) OCaml Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Risk Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) SAS Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 3 (12.50%) Derivative
4 2 (8.33%) Grid Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Equities
5 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
5 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Analytics
2 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
3 7 (29.17%) Mathematics
4 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) A/B Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Data Science
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Physics
5 5 (20.83%) Process Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
7 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (12.50%) Model Validation
7 3 (12.50%) Pattern Recognition
7 3 (12.50%) Quantitative Finance
7 3 (12.50%) Statistics
7 3 (12.50%) Validation
7 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) C++
4 5 (20.83%) Haskell
4 5 (20.83%) R
5 4 (16.67%) MATLAB
6 3 (12.50%) C#
6 3 (12.50%) OCaml
7 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
1 5 (20.83%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.33%) Spotify
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks