Quantitative Trading Jobs in Central London

Quantitative Trading
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Trading over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 194 233
Rank change year-on-year +40 +39 -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 5 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £57,125 - £57,250
25th Percentile £67,813 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £85,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £160,500 - £128,000
London median annual salary £142,500 £127,500 £128,750
% change year-on-year +11.76% -0.97% +28.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Quantitative Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in Central London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Trading in Central London.

Salary trend for Quantitative Trading in Central London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Trading in Central London

Quantitative Trading
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +38 4 £125,000 +56.25% 11
West End of London - 1 £55,000 - 1
Quantitative Trading
London

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Advertising
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform