Quantitative Finance Jobs in England

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Finance over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 724 785
Rank change year-on-year +53 +61 +344
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 31 33 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.044% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.054% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 5
10th Percentile £70,500 £45,875 £62,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £47,188 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £63,750 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.86% -39.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £125,000 £81,250 £145,000
90th Percentile £161,250 £148,250 £149,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £63,750 £105,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -39.29% +5.00%

All Process and 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 47,416 60,897 62,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 89.37% 81.76% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 25,151 38,761 42,302
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £41,250 £45,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in England

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in England

Quantitative Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance in England over the 6 months to 15 August 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 15 August 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 +56 26 £101,250 +15.71% 53
South West +70 2 £85,000 +9.68%
South East +26 2 £105,000 +121.05% 7
Quantitative Finance
UK

Quantitative Finance
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 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
1 2 (6.45%) Pinecone
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.45%) Weaviate
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) MLflow
General
1 31 (100.00%) Finance
2 15 (48.39%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (38.71%) Front Office
4 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
5 7 (22.58%) Legal
6 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.45%) Marketing
8 1 (3.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 6 (19.35%) Risk Manager
4 4 (12.90%) Python Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Qualitative Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Quantitative Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Risk Officer
6 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Head of Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Head of Finance
6 2 (6.45%) Head of Risk Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Risk Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Risk Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) NumPy
2 4 (12.90%) Pandas
3 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Hedge funds
2 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.90%) Credit Risk
3 3 (9.68%) CUDA
3 3 (9.68%) Derivative
3 3 (9.68%) Reinsurance
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.45%) SIMD
5 1 (3.23%) Equities
5 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Statistics
2 17 (54.84%) Model Validation
3 16 (51.61%) Risk Management
4 15 (48.39%) Mathematics
4 15 (48.39%) Validation
5 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (35.48%) Agile
7 10 (32.26%) Analytics
7 10 (32.26%) Machine Learning
7 10 (32.26%) Quantitative Analysis
8 8 (25.81%) Business Development
9 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
9 7 (22.58%) Project Management
10 6 (19.35%) Quantitative Risk Management
10 6 (19.35%) Stochastic Calculus
10 6 (19.35%) Stress Testing
11 5 (16.13%) Data Science
11 5 (16.13%) OO
12 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
12 4 (12.90%) Econometrics
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) R
3 6 (19.35%) C
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) C++
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) MATLAB
6 2 (6.45%) VBA
7 1 (3.23%) Clojure
7 1 (3.23%) Groovy
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Degree
2 12 (38.71%) Master's Degree
3 9 (29.03%) PhD
4 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.45%) CFA
6 1 (3.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) IFRS
1 6 (19.35%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
1 2 (6.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubeflow
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.23%) Reuters
2 1 (3.23%) Solace