Quantitative Finance Jobs in Central London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 187 243
Rank change year-on-year +28 +56 +60
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 2 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.080% 0.080% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.086% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £55,375
25th Percentile £165,000 - £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £170,000 - £96,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.24%
75th Percentile £175,000 - £126,563
90th Percentile - - £142,125
London median annual salary £185,000 £167,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +10.45% +91.43% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Quantitative Finance 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 2,399 3,473 4,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.46% 92.17% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 2,671 4,016
10th Percentile £42,000 £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 £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in Central London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in Central London

Quantitative Finance
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 Finance within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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 2 £170,000 - 4
Quantitative Finance
London

Quantitative Finance
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) KDB
1 1 (50.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 1 (50.00%) KDB Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
2 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Complexity Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Linear Algebra
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree