Hybrid/Remote Quantitative Developer Contract Job Trends

Quant Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quant Developer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 320 362
Rank change year-on-year +18 +42 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 6 16 42
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.061% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 40
10th Percentile £607 £755 £688
25th Percentile £713 £763 £806
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £831 £950
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -12.50% +11.76%
75th Percentile £883 £912 -
90th Percentile £938 £1,003 £1,228
UK median daily rate £1,000 £850 £938
% change year-on-year +17.65% -9.33% +10.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,178 11,506 17,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 93.40% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,016 7,271 12,624
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 227 389
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.84 £16.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £27.11 £24.97
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.94%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Quantitative Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Quantitative Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Quantitative Developer job vacancies

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Developer over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Quantitative Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, Quantitative Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) C++
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) GCC
3 1 (16.67%) GDB
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) NumPy
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Pandas
3 1 (16.67%) PhD
3 1 (16.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GCC
1 1 (16.67%) GDB
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) SciPy
1 1 (16.67%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Physics
2 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Statistics
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C++
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Solace