Quantitative Finance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Finance 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 295 326 458
Rank change year-on-year +31 +132 +168
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Finance 9 19 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.12% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.14% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 12
10th Percentile £653 £768 £680
25th Percentile £703 £819 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £863 £850
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% +30.77%
75th Percentile £863 £950 £890
90th Percentile - £1,040 £900
UK median daily rate £825 £850 £800
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Quantitative Finance 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Quantitative Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Quantitative Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Finance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Quantitative Finance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Quantitative Finance.

Quantitative Finance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Quantitative Finance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Quantitative Finance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Quantitative Finance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Quantitative Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Azure AKS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Service Bus
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
1 5 (55.56%) GitHub
1 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Python Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Python Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Quantitative Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) NumPy
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
1 5 (55.56%) OpenID
1 5 (55.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (55.56%) Pandas
2 4 (44.44%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk
1 2 (22.22%) Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (22.22%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Data Science
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
4 2 (22.22%) Numerical Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Physics
4 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stochastic Calculus
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform