Quantitative Developer Jobs in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer salary in England is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 686 858
Rank change year-on-year +102 +172 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 84 158 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.19% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45 111 76
10th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £137,500 £122,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% +22.50%
75th Percentile £165,000 £155,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £174,000 £172,500 £162,500
UK median annual salary £140,000 £137,500 £122,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% +22.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 6 May 2025.

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 6 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 +45 82 £140,000 +1.82% 107
North East - 2 £100,000 - 3
North of England - 2 £100,000 - 5
Quantitative Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 65 (77.38%) Python
2 49 (58.33%) C++
3 47 (55.95%) Low Latency
4 46 (54.76%) Hedge funds
5 43 (51.19%) Equities
6 39 (46.43%) Finance
7 35 (41.67%) Linux
8 29 (34.52%) Algorithms
9 28 (33.33%) Multithreading
10 21 (25.00%) Degree
10 21 (25.00%) Physics
10 21 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
11 20 (23.81%) Front Office
12 19 (22.62%) OO
12 19 (22.62%) Analytics
13 18 (21.43%) OOP
14 17 (20.24%) Mathematics
14 17 (20.24%) Data Structures
15 15 (17.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
16 14 (16.67%) Management Information System
16 14 (16.67%) Master's Degree
16 14 (16.67%) Order Management
17 13 (15.48%) PhD
17 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
17 13 (15.48%) Visualisation
18 12 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
18 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
18 12 (14.29%) Fixed Income
18 12 (14.29%) Data Management

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 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) Azure
2 2 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) KDB
2 2 (2.38%) Redis
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 39 (46.43%) Finance
2 20 (23.81%) Front Office
3 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Advertising
6 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 11 (13.10%) Pandas
3 10 (11.90%) NumPy
4 8 (9.52%) React
5 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.33%) Flask
5 7 (8.33%) Plotly
6 1 (1.19%) .NET
6 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.19%) SciPy
6 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (54.76%) Hedge funds
2 43 (51.19%) Equities
3 29 (34.52%) Algorithms
4 17 (20.24%) Data Structures
5 14 (16.67%) Management Information System
6 12 (14.29%) Fixed Income
7 8 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (8.33%) Derivative
9 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (2.38%) Market Risk
11 2 (2.38%) Replication
12 1 (1.19%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 1 (1.19%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) Low Latency
2 28 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 21 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 21 (25.00%) Physics
4 19 (22.62%) Analytics
4 19 (22.62%) OO
5 18 (21.43%) OOP
6 17 (20.24%) Mathematics
7 14 (16.67%) Order Management
7 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.48%) Visualisation
9 12 (14.29%) Data Management
9 12 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
10 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.10%) Dashboard Development
11 10 (11.90%) Risk Management
12 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
13 8 (9.52%) Backtesting
14 7 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 65 (77.38%) Python
2 49 (58.33%) C++
3 7 (8.33%) Java
4 6 (7.14%) SQL
5 4 (4.76%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) VBA
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.48%) PhD
4 2 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) Murex