Hybrid/Remote Quantitative Trading Contract Job Trends

Quantitative Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 308 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Trading 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.019% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.021% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £925 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% - -
UK median daily rate £800 £925 £850
% change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% +9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,902 9,679 14,483
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.47% 90.38% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 6,286 9,706
10th Percentile £341 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 188 525
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.42 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.67 £24.01 £23.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.25 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% -18.62% -18.26%
75th Percentile £65.17 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £81.90
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quantitative Trading and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Trading job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Quantitative Trading
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Trading

Quantitative Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) KDB
1 1 (8.33%) Kdb+
1 1 (8.33%) Tick Data
General
1 11 (91.67%) Banking
1 11 (91.67%) Front Office
1 11 (91.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Java Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
2 11 (91.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Equities
2 11 (91.67%) Derivative
2 11 (91.67%) TWAP
2 11 (91.67%) VWAP
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 12 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 11 (91.67%) Design Patterns
2 11 (91.67%) Electronic Trading
2 11 (91.67%) Garbage Collection
2 11 (91.67%) Multithreading
2 11 (91.67%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) Smart Order Routing
2 11 (91.67%) TDD
2 11 (91.67%) UML
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java