Quantitative Finance Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
East London > Tower Hamlets

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Finance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 1.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 - -
East London median daily rate £1,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53 63 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 96.36% 96.92% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 131
10th Percentile £450 £399 £472
25th Percentile £513 £455 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -6.09% +9.00%
75th Percentile £630 £595 £650
90th Percentile £1,000 £665 £730
East London median daily rate £525 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £27.21 - -
25th Percentile £30.29 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £43.50 - £15.52
75th Percentile £56.88 - £17.37
90th Percentile £60.25 - £18.31
East London median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
% change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -79.71%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quantitative Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Quantitative Finance job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Quantitative Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Quantitative Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Quantitative Finance

Quantitative Finance
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Canary Wharf - 1 £1,000 -
Quantitative Finance
East London

Quantitative Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA