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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 542 624
Rank change year-on-year +3 +82 +178
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 28 25 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.064% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.075% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 40
10th Percentile £315 £216 -
25th Percentile £407 £371 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £713
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +1.75% +37.35%
75th Percentile £850 £825 £915
90th Percentile £875 £958 £976
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £298 £650
% change year-on-year +0.67% -54.16% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £22.52 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £24.42 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.51% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £30.89 -
90th Percentile - £32.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £33.93 -

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 29,972 33,531 47,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.45% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,760 21,562 32,735
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,890 1,565
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.59 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%

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

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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 2 August 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 7 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 2 August 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 +35 28 £575 -23.33% 84
London +16 22 £738 -4.84% 73
Work from Home +19 5 £550 +22.22% 26
UK excluding London -1 5 £300 +0.67% 17
North of England - 4 £300 - 4
Yorkshire - 4 £300 - 2
South East - 1 - - 5

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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
1 6 (21.43%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Mining
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 16 (57.14%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Front Office
3 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (28.57%) Banking
5 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (17.86%) Back Office
7 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Data Scientist
4 5 (17.86%) Haskell Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Business Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) OCaml Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
7 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer - Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.57%) QC Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Qualitative Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Risk Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk
4 3 (10.71%) Derivative
5 2 (7.14%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Equities
6 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Analytics
2 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
3 8 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (17.86%) Data Science
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Model Validation
6 5 (17.86%) Physics
6 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) A/B Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
8 3 (10.71%) Business Case
8 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) C++
4 5 (17.86%) Haskell
5 4 (14.29%) MATLAB
5 4 (14.29%) R
6 3 (10.71%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) OCaml
7 2 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
1 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GLP
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 2 (7.14%) Spotify
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft