Quantitative Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Quant Developer
England > London

The median Quant Developer daily rate in London is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 346 339
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 59 31 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.20% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.21% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 53
10th Percentile £650 £663 £688
25th Percentile £700 £788 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £950
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £1,000 £933 -
90th Percentile £1,188 £988 £1,250
England median daily rate £850 £850 £950
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Quantitative Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Quantitative Developer job vacancy trend in London

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Quantitative Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Quantitative Developer job vacancies in London

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Developer in London

Quantitative Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Quantitative Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Quantitative Developer job vacancies in London

Quantitative Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
East London - 6 £1,000 -
Central London +8 5 £650 -29.73%
Quantitative Developer
England

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Quantitative Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 54 (91.53%) Python
2 34 (57.63%) C++
3 22 (37.29%) Mathematics
4 18 (30.51%) Analytics
5 16 (27.12%) C#
5 16 (27.12%) Linux
6 13 (22.03%) Computer Science
7 12 (20.34%) Low Latency
7 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.34%) Quantitative Research
8 11 (18.64%) Benchmarking
8 11 (18.64%) Degree
8 11 (18.64%) Physics
9 10 (16.95%) Automated Trading
9 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
10 9 (15.25%) Docker
10 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
10 9 (15.25%) Master's Degree
10 9 (15.25%) Multithreading
10 9 (15.25%) OOP
11 8 (13.56%) Asynchronous Programming
11 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (13.56%) Fintech
11 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
11 8 (13.56%) Order Management
11 8 (13.56%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (11.86%) Electronic Trading
12 7 (11.86%) Kafka
12 7 (11.86%) NumPy

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.39%) Apache
1 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.17%) AWS
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (5.08%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) Serverless
3 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Multicast
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.69%) Power BI
1 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
1 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.69%) GCC
2 1 (1.69%) GDB
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 30 (50.85%) Finance
2 29 (49.15%) Front Office
3 15 (25.42%) Banking
4 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.47%) Financial Institution
6 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Agriculture
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Kafka
1 7 (11.86%) NumPy
2 6 (10.17%) Pandas
3 4 (6.78%) SciPy
4 1 (1.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.69%) HTML
4 1 (1.69%) HTML5
4 1 (1.69%) Middleware
4 1 (1.69%) Next.js
4 1 (1.69%) OpenFin
4 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.69%) React
4 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.69%) STL
4 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (45.76%) Equities
2 17 (28.81%) Derivative
3 16 (27.12%) Algorithms
4 12 (20.34%) Equity Derivative
5 10 (16.95%) Fixed Income
6 9 (15.25%) Data Structures
6 9 (15.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (5.08%) Credit Risk
8 2 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.69%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.69%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.12%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Mathematics
2 18 (30.51%) Analytics
3 13 (22.03%) Computer Science
4 12 (20.34%) Low Latency
4 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.34%) Quantitative Research
5 11 (18.64%) Benchmarking
5 11 (18.64%) Physics
6 10 (16.95%) Automated Trading
6 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
7 9 (15.25%) Multithreading
7 9 (15.25%) OOP
8 8 (13.56%) Asynchronous Programming
8 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (13.56%) Fintech
8 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
8 8 (13.56%) Order Management
8 8 (13.56%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (11.86%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 54 (91.53%) Python
2 34 (57.63%) C++
3 16 (27.12%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) SQL
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) Rust
6 2 (3.39%) VBA
7 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 9 (15.25%) Master's Degree
3 5 (8.47%) PhD
4 1 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Sophis
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle
2 1 (1.69%) Solace
Quantitative Developer jobs