Quantitative Analysis Contracts

Quantitative Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 478 557 660
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 +110
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 42 25 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.057% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.066% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 8 41
10th Percentile £401 £245 £450
25th Percentile £500 £317 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £430 £650
Median % change year-on-year +56.98% -33.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile £875 £528 £860
90th Percentile £938 £558 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £193 £375 £488
% change year-on-year -48.53% -23.08% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £10.42 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £10.42 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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 Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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 +75 41 £675 +50.00% 116
London +62 40 £675 +50.00% 98
Work from Home +34 3 £550 +34.15% 39
UK excluding London +58 2 £193 -48.53% 37
South East +46 1 - - 15
Scotland +12 1 £193 -12.65% 6

Quantitative Analysis
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.67%) SAS
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.14%) Collibra
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) Power BI
1 8 (19.05%) Tableau
2 6 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 4 (9.52%) Metadata
3 4 (9.52%) QlikView
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 23 (54.76%) Front Office
3 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Back Office
8 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.38%) Games
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
8 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (66.67%) Analyst
2 20 (47.62%) Product Manager
3 19 (45.24%) Business Analyst
4 18 (42.86%) Business Manager
4 18 (42.86%) Product Analyst
4 18 (42.86%) Product Business Analyst
5 7 (16.67%) Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Data Analyst
7 5 (11.90%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (9.52%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (9.52%) Data Scientist
9 3 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Data Quality Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) SAS Analyst
10 2 (4.76%) SAS Data Analyst
11 1 (2.38%) Commercial Analyst
11 1 (2.38%) Marketing Manager
11 1 (2.38%) Operations Analyst
11 1 (2.38%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Derivative
2 19 (45.24%) Equities
3 18 (42.86%) Fixed Income
3 18 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (42.86%) Hedge funds
3 18 (42.86%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
5 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.14%) Taxonomies
6 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.76%) Credit Risk
6 2 (4.76%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Analytics
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 21 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 19 (45.24%) Asset Management
3 19 (45.24%) Machine Learning
4 18 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 18 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 18 (42.86%) Order Management
4 18 (42.86%) Portfolio Management
4 18 (42.86%) Risk Analytics
5 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 7 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.90%) Data Science
8 5 (11.90%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) C++
3 4 (9.52%) R
4 2 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.38%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 23 (54.76%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.76%) MBA
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) HNC
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 3 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) GLP
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Ab Initio
1 3 (7.14%) Databricks
1 3 (7.14%) IBM
1 3 (7.14%) Informatica
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Spotify
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian