Quantitative Trading Jobs in London

Quantitative Trading
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Trading over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 453 593
Rank change year-on-year +79 +140 +267
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 19 46 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.19% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 13 35 19
10th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £155,000 £115,000 £127,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -9.80% +27.50%
75th Percentile £166,250 £160,000 £141,250
90th Percentile £214,500 £170,000 £146,250
England median annual salary £155,000 £115,000 £127,500
% change year-on-year +34.78% -9.80% +27.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Quantitative Trading 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Quantitative Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Trading in London.

Salary trend for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Trading in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Trading in London

Quantitative Trading
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +28 5 £103,750 +12.16% 12
Quantitative Trading
England

Quantitative Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Researcher
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Tools Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.26%) NumPy
1 1 (5.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Hedge funds
2 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
3 4 (21.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (10.53%) Equities
4 2 (10.53%) Reference Data
5 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
5 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Algorithmic Trading
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Quantitative Research
2 5 (26.32%) Systematic Trading
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.53%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.53%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Market Making
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Statistics
5 2 (10.53%) Workflow
6 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Investing
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.26%) R
4 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.26%) Tenable