Quantitative Finance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 758 752
Rank change year-on-year +195 -6 -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 13 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.003% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £86,000 £42,875 -
25th Percentile £89,375 £43,438 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £46,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% - -
75th Percentile £112,500 £48,438 -
90th Percentile £117,000 £48,625 -
UK median annual salary £115,000 £98,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +16.46% +12.86% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,412 59,622 57,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.96% 83.97% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18,008 41,236 29,662
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Quantitative Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Scotland - 10 - -
South East +99 2 £105,000 +127.03% 20
South West - 1 £87,500 -
Quantitative Finance
UK

Quantitative Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) LaTeX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
1 2 (15.38%) Pinecone
1 2 (15.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (76.92%) Legal
3 8 (61.54%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Risk Officer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Scientist
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) NumPy
1 2 (15.38%) Pandas
1 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
1 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
1 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
1 2 (15.38%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.69%) CUDA
2 1 (7.69%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (76.92%) Mathematics
2 10 (76.92%) Model Validation
2 10 (76.92%) Quantitative Analysis
2 10 (76.92%) Validation
3 8 (61.54%) Project Management
3 8 (61.54%) Statistics
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Automated Trading
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Fintech
5 2 (15.38%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (15.38%) Multi-Agent System
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Qualitative Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Reinforcement Learning
5 2 (15.38%) Sentiment Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) R
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (61.54%) Master's Degree
2 8 (61.54%) PhD
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks