Quantitative Trading Contracts

Quantitative Trading
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Trading 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 516 577 707
Rank change year-on-year +61 +130 +132
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Trading 4 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.011% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.013% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £913 £800 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £850 £775
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £938 £900 £1,194
90th Percentile - - £1,400
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Trading 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in the UK

Quantitative Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Trading in the UK

Quantitative Trading
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the UK 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
England +54 2 £925 +8.82% 157
London +35 2 £925 +8.82% 152
Work from Home - 2 £925 - 33
UK excluding London - 1 - - 59
Scotland - 1 - - 2

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Mobility Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Okta
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow