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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 798 907
Rank change year-on-year +124 +109 +207
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 19 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.029% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.034% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £90,500 £43,625 £62,250
25th Percentile £97,500 £45,313 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £98,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +12.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £200,000 £176,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £233,000 £201,000 £127,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £98,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +16.46% +12.86% -7.89%

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 46,644 73,553 84,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.10% 85.14% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,839 53,945 50,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 May 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 18 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 +107 16 £185,000 +10.45% 79
South East +90 2 £105,000 +127.03% 23
South West - 1 £87,500 -
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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) Pinecone
1 2 (10.53%) Weaviate
2 1 (5.26%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) Kdb+
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MLflow
General
1 19 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Front Office
4 5 (26.32%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Risk Officer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Qualitative Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (5.26%) KDB Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) NumPy
1 2 (10.53%) Pandas
1 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
1 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) CUDA
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Equities
3 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Statistics
2 11 (57.89%) Model Validation
2 11 (57.89%) Validation
3 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
3 8 (42.11%) Mathematics
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Risk Management
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Business Development
5 6 (31.58%) Quantitative Analysis
5 6 (31.58%) Quantitative Risk Management
5 6 (31.58%) Stochastic Calculus
5 6 (31.58%) Stress Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) High-Frequency Trading
6 5 (26.32%) Project Management
7 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
8 3 (15.79%) Low Latency
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (10.53%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) R
3 6 (31.58%) C
4 5 (26.32%) C++
5 4 (21.05%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 1 (5.26%) Bash
7 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Master's Degree
2 5 (26.32%) PhD
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) IFRS
1 6 (31.58%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubeflow
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
1 1 (5.26%) Databricks
1 1 (5.26%) Reuters