Quantitative Developer Jobs in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer salary in England is £137,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 837 1024
Rank change year-on-year +148 +187 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 158 89 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.098% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 112 75 116
10th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £122,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +22.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £162,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £137,500 £122,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% +22.50% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +193 158 £137,500 +12.24% 48
Quantitative Developer
UK

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Quantitative Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 112 (70.89%) Python
2 101 (63.92%) Finance
3 73 (46.20%) Hedge funds
4 72 (45.57%) Fixed Income
5 71 (44.94%) Quantitative Research
6 69 (43.67%) Front Office
7 59 (37.34%) Equities
8 52 (32.91%) Software Engineering
9 50 (31.65%) Agile
10 49 (31.01%) AWS
11 47 (29.75%) Azure
12 46 (29.11%) Asset Management
12 46 (29.11%) Derivative
13 44 (27.85%) GCP
14 43 (27.22%) R
14 43 (27.22%) Investment Management
15 40 (25.32%) Java
16 38 (24.05%) Bloomberg
17 35 (22.15%) Algorithmic Trading
18 34 (21.52%) C++
19 31 (19.62%) Mathematics
20 29 (18.35%) Computer Science
20 29 (18.35%) Degree
21 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
22 23 (14.56%) Algorithms
23 17 (10.76%) Investment Banking
23 17 (10.76%) Banking
23 17 (10.76%) Electronic Trading
24 16 (10.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 16 (10.13%) Quantitative Trading

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.16%) Apache
1 5 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.01%) AWS
2 47 (29.75%) Azure
3 44 (27.85%) GCP
4 3 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.27%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.53%) KDB
1 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.90%) Big Data
3 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.27%) Kdb+
3 2 (1.27%) Power BI
3 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.63%) Dremio
4 1 (0.63%) Flink
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 101 (63.92%) Finance
2 69 (43.67%) Front Office
3 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
4 17 (10.76%) Banking
4 17 (10.76%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.49%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (5.70%) NumPy
2 9 (5.70%) Pandas
3 3 (1.90%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.90%) SciPy
3 3 (1.90%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Commons
4 2 (1.27%) PySpark
4 2 (1.27%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.27%) React
5 1 (0.63%) .NET
5 1 (0.63%) Dask
5 1 (0.63%) gRPC
5 1 (0.63%) Kafka
5 1 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 73 (46.20%) Hedge funds
2 72 (45.57%) Fixed Income
3 59 (37.34%) Equities
4 46 (29.11%) Derivative
5 23 (14.56%) Algorithms
6 16 (10.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (6.96%) Data Structures
8 7 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (2.53%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.94%) Quantitative Research
2 52 (32.91%) Software Engineering
3 50 (31.65%) Agile
4 46 (29.11%) Asset Management
5 43 (27.22%) Investment Management
6 35 (22.15%) Algorithmic Trading
7 31 (19.62%) Mathematics
8 29 (18.35%) Computer Science
9 17 (10.76%) Electronic Trading
10 16 (10.13%) Quantitative Trading
11 15 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.86%) Backtesting
12 14 (8.86%) Market Making
12 14 (8.86%) Proprietary Trading
12 14 (8.86%) Quantitative Finance
13 13 (8.23%) Analytics
13 13 (8.23%) Low Latency
14 12 (7.59%) Data Science
15 11 (6.96%) Data Analysis
15 11 (6.96%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 112 (70.89%) Python
2 43 (27.22%) R
3 40 (25.32%) Java
4 34 (21.52%) C++
5 10 (6.33%) C#
6 5 (3.16%) SQL
7 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.27%) Scala
7 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.27%) VBA
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 29 (18.35%) Degree
2 13 (8.23%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.23%) PhD
3 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
1 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (24.05%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle
2 2 (1.27%) Sybase
3 1 (0.63%) Solace