Quantitative Developer Jobs in London

Quant Developer
England > London

The median Quant Developer salary in London is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 347 543
Rank change year-on-year +31 +196 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 84 160 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.68% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.72% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 43 112 73
10th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £137,500 £122,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% +22.50%
75th Percentile £165,000 £155,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £174,500 £168,750 £162,500
England median annual salary £140,000 £137,500 £122,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% +22.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in London

Quantitative Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Developer in London

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Developer in London

Quantitative Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +25 15 £140,000 +12.00% 7
Quantitative Developer
England

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Quantitative Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 66 (78.57%) Python
2 51 (60.71%) C++
3 49 (58.33%) Low Latency
4 45 (53.57%) Hedge funds
4 45 (53.57%) Equities
5 40 (47.62%) Finance
6 37 (44.05%) Linux
7 30 (35.71%) Algorithms
7 30 (35.71%) Multithreading
8 21 (25.00%) Degree
8 21 (25.00%) Physics
8 21 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
8 21 (25.00%) Front Office
9 19 (22.62%) OO
9 19 (22.62%) Analytics
10 18 (21.43%) Data Structures
10 18 (21.43%) OOP
11 15 (17.86%) Mathematics
11 15 (17.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 14 (16.67%) Management Information System
12 14 (16.67%) Master's Degree
12 14 (16.67%) Order Management
13 13 (15.48%) PhD
13 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
13 13 (15.48%) Visualisation
14 12 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
14 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
14 12 (14.29%) Fixed Income
14 12 (14.29%) Data Management

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) Azure
2 2 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) KDB
2 2 (2.38%) Redis
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 40 (47.62%) Finance
2 21 (25.00%) Front Office
3 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Advertising
6 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 11 (13.10%) Pandas
3 10 (11.90%) NumPy
4 8 (9.52%) React
5 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.33%) Flask
5 7 (8.33%) Plotly
6 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.19%) SciPy
6 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (53.57%) Equities
1 45 (53.57%) Hedge funds
2 30 (35.71%) Algorithms
3 18 (21.43%) Data Structures
4 14 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 12 (14.29%) Fixed Income
6 8 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (8.33%) Derivative
8 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (2.38%) Market Risk
10 2 (2.38%) Replication
11 1 (1.19%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (1.19%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (58.33%) Low Latency
2 30 (35.71%) Multithreading
3 21 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 21 (25.00%) Physics
4 19 (22.62%) Analytics
4 19 (22.62%) OO
5 18 (21.43%) OOP
6 15 (17.86%) Mathematics
7 14 (16.67%) Order Management
7 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.48%) Visualisation
9 12 (14.29%) Data Management
9 12 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
10 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.10%) Dashboard Development
11 10 (11.90%) Risk Management
12 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
13 8 (9.52%) Backtesting
14 7 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 66 (78.57%) Python
2 51 (60.71%) C++
3 7 (8.33%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) SQL
5 3 (3.57%) VBA
6 2 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.48%) PhD
4 2 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) Murex