Quantitative Trading Jobs in England

Quantitative Trading
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 791 880
Rank change year-on-year +153 +89 +268
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 21 44 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.050% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.059% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 14 33 22
10th Percentile £83,125 £75,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £105,625 £97,500 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £142,500 £127,500 £128,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -0.97% +28.75%
75th Percentile £166,250 £162,500 £141,875
90th Percentile £209,250 £170,000 £150,625
UK median annual salary £127,500 £127,500 £128,750
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +47.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Trading in England

Quantitative Trading
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +76 20 £142,500 +11.76% 114
Quantitative Trading
UK

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) KDB
2 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Front Office
4 1 (4.76%) Advertising
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
4 2 (9.52%) C++ Developer
4 2 (9.52%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Researcher
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Tools Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.76%) NumPy
1 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 5 (23.81%) Algorithms
3 4 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.52%) Equities
4 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
4 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Algorithmic Trading
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Quantitative Research
2 5 (23.81%) Systematic Trading
3 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
5 2 (9.52%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (9.52%) Low Latency
5 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.52%) Market Making
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Statistics
5 2 (9.52%) Workflow
6 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.76%) R
6 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.76%) Tenable