Quantitative Finance Job Trends in England

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 653 650
Rank change year-on-year +55 -3 +333
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 14 27 10
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.027% 0.054% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.060% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 4
10th Percentile £77,250 £61,875 £98,625
25th Percentile £91,875 £73,750 £100,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £90,000 £106,250
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -15.29% -3.41%
75th Percentile £179,063 £150,000 £121,563
90th Percentile £195,375 £202,500 £135,625
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £106,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% -15.29% -3.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Quantitative Finance 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 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quantitative Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Quantitative Finance job vacancy trend in England

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Quantitative Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Quantitative Finance

Quantitative Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Finance in England

Quantitative Finance
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 Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +54 14 £130,000 - 36
Quantitative Finance
UK

Quantitative Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Matillion
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power Query
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C++ Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Risk Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Risk Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Credit Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Hedge funds
2 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (21.43%) Derivative
4 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (14.29%) Market Risk
5 1 (7.14%) Equities
5 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
5 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (7.14%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Low Latency
1 6 (42.86%) Mathematics
1 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
1 6 (42.86%) Statistics
2 5 (35.71%) Business Development
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) Model Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) Economics
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Systematic Trading
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) R
3 4 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) MATLAB
4 3 (21.43%) VBA
5 2 (14.29%) C
6 1 (7.14%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
3 3 (21.43%) CFA
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) IFRS
1 2 (14.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Informatica
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.14%) SimCorp