Quantitative Research Job Trends in the City of London

Quantitative Research
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Quantitative Research skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 156 146
Rank change year-on-year +41 -10 +94
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Research 18 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.79% 0.11% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.12% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 15
10th Percentile £47,819 - £85,000
25th Percentile £81,500 £52,500 £100,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £55,000 £150,000
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -63.33% +122.22%
75th Percentile £129,375 £57,500 £187,500
90th Percentile £146,500 - £200,000
Central London median annual salary £112,500 £55,000 £150,000
% change year-on-year +104.55% -63.33% +122.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Quantitative Research 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 1,975 2,524 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.36% 95.64% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 1,607 2,397
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Quantitative Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Quantitative Research job vacancy trend in the City of London

Quantitative Research
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

Quantitative Research
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Research in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Research in the City of London

Quantitative Research
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
General
1 14 (77.78%) Front Office
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 7 (38.89%) Financial Institution
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Product Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) C# Quant Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Kafka
2 6 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
3 3 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) XSLT
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5
5 1 (5.56%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Algorithms
2 11 (61.11%) Equities
3 6 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (22.22%) Derivative
4 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
7 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Low Latency
2 11 (61.11%) Analytics
2 11 (61.11%) Computer Science
2 11 (61.11%) Electronic Trading
2 11 (61.11%) Mathematics
2 11 (61.11%) Multithreading
3 8 (44.44%) Algorithmic Trading
3 8 (44.44%) Applied Mathematics
3 8 (44.44%) Quantitative Trading
3 8 (44.44%) Statistics
4 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
5 6 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
5 6 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
6 5 (27.78%) Complexity Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Data Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) High-Frequency Trading
6 5 (27.78%) Order Management
6 5 (27.78%) Prototyping
7 3 (16.67%) Market Making
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) R
5 2 (11.11%) VBA
5 2 (11.11%) VC++
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
2 5 (27.78%) PhD
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) EMIR
1 2 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle