Quantitative Finance Contracts in London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Finance 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 318 359 462
Rank change year-on-year +41 +103 +115
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Finance 35 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 21
10th Percentile £638 £514 £625
25th Percentile £650 £794 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £894 £950 £875
90th Percentile £1,006 £1,090 £899
England median daily rate £825 £850 £800
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Quantitative Finance 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%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
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 Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 4 £849 +2.91% 2
Quantitative Finance
England

Quantitative Finance
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 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) Azure AKS
2 11 (31.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 11 (31.43%) Azure Service Bus
2 11 (31.43%) Entra ID
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) KDB
3 4 (11.43%) Kdb+
4 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 35 (100.00%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Banking
2 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 9 (25.71%) Front Office
5 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Python Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) Qualitative Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Quantitative Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Software Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) KDB Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Python Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (5.71%) C++ Developer
9 2 (5.71%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
10 1 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) OAuth
1 11 (31.43%) OAuth2
1 11 (31.43%) OpenID
2 10 (28.57%) NumPy
2 10 (28.57%) Pandas
2 10 (28.57%) REST
3 9 (25.71%) Kafka
3 9 (25.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.86%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Algorithms
1 8 (22.86%) Derivative
1 8 (22.86%) Equities
2 5 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 5 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (11.43%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.57%) Credit Risk
4 3 (8.57%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 14 (40.00%) Analytics
2 14 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
4 10 (28.57%) Agile
4 10 (28.57%) Low Latency
5 8 (22.86%) Data Analytics
5 8 (22.86%) Physics
6 7 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Multithreading
7 6 (17.14%) Numerical Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Data Science
8 5 (14.29%) Mathematical Modelling
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) Python
2 19 (54.29%) C++
3 15 (42.86%) C#
4 9 (25.71%) Java
5 8 (22.86%) SQL
6 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Master's Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (25.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.86%) Google