Quantitative Finance Jobs in England

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Quantitative Finance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Quantitative Finance over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 911 1104
Rank change year-on-year +99 +193 -248
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 23 14 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.015% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.016% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £64,500 - £80,000
25th Percentile £91,875 £86,250 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -7.89% +26.67%
75th Percentile £190,000 £92,188 £130,000
90th Percentile £206,500 £98,375 -
UK median annual salary £150,000 £87,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year +71.43% -4.11% +21.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Quantitative Finance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,078 88,196 126,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,838 52,122 73,896
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,910 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 +131 22 £167,500 +91.43% 29
South East +15 1 £47,500 - 2
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 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) WhatsApp
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
General
1 23 (100.00%) Finance
2 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Front Office
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 14 (60.87%) Quantitative Developer
3 11 (47.83%) Python Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Head of Development
6 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
6 2 (8.70%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C++ Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Research Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Research Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) NumPy
1 7 (30.43%) Pandas
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Commons
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.70%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Hedge funds
2 5 (21.74%) Algorithms
3 4 (17.39%) Equities
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.35%) Mixed Reality
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Computer Science
1 18 (78.26%) Mathematics
2 10 (43.48%) Data Analysis
3 9 (39.13%) Quantitative Research
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Algorithmic Trading
5 7 (30.43%) Analytics
5 7 (30.43%) Decision-Making
5 7 (30.43%) Physics
6 6 (26.09%) Risk Management
6 6 (26.09%) Statistics
7 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
7 5 (21.74%) Statistical Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) Econometrics
8 4 (17.39%) OO
8 4 (17.39%) Project Management
9 3 (13.04%) Data Management
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Statistical Analysis
9 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) C++
3 11 (47.83%) Java
4 8 (34.78%) SQL
5 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Clojure
6 2 (8.70%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) Scala
7 1 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (4.35%) Haskell
7 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Degree
2 8 (34.78%) Master's Degree
3 7 (30.43%) PhD
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) MiFID
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Bloomberg
1 2 (8.70%) Reuters