Quantitative Investing Job Trends in the City of London

Quantitative Investment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Quantitative Investing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 169 -
Rank change year-on-year +42 - -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Investing 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £150,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 - -
75th Percentile £170,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £160,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Quantitative Investing 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,501 2,594 2,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.97% 93.88% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,696 2,677
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £96,875 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -

Quantitative Investing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quantitative Investing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Quantitative Investing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Quantitative Investing
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Quantitative Investing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Quantitative Investing

Quantitative Investing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systematic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes