Quantitative Finance Jobs in the South East

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 393 401
Rank change year-on-year +96 +8 -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 2 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.021% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.014% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £95,500 £42,875 -
25th Percentile £96,250 £43,438 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £46,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.03% - -
75th Percentile £116,250 £48,438 -
90th Percentile £118,500 £48,625 -
England median annual salary £115,000 £98,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +16.46% +12.86% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,656 14,162 13,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.84% 84.47% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 9,859 7,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Quantitative Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in the South East

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Finance in the South East.

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in the South East

Quantitative Finance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Finance within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley +64 2 £105,000 +127.03%
Berkshire +46 2 £105,000 +127.03%
Quantitative Finance
England

Quantitative Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes