Quantitative Analysis Jobs

Quantitative Analysis
UK

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 814 872
Rank change year-on-year +145 +58 +192
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 66 72 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.070% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.085% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 17 33 18
10th Percentile £61,750 £35,000 £44,550
25th Percentile £100,000 £47,236 £48,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.43% +10.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £143,750 £100,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £161,250 £130,000 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.44% -13.00% -27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Analysis 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Quantitative Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Quantitative Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England +133 43 £112,500 +84.43% 79
London +102 36 £112,500 +12.50% 73
UK excluding London +159 20 £32,000 -26.44% 11
Scotland +100 14 - - 2
Work from Home +78 5 £41,000 +9.33% 26
North of England +55 5 - - 3
North West +14 5 - - 3
South East - 1 £32,000 - 2

Quantitative Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) SPSS
3 2 (3.03%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Adobe Analytics
2 9 (13.64%) Google Analytics
3 8 (12.12%) AWS
3 8 (12.12%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) Dagster
3 8 (12.12%) dbt
3 8 (12.12%) GCP
4 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.55%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.82%) Tableau
2 8 (12.12%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (12.12%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (12.12%) Dremio
3 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 4 (6.06%) Power Query
3 4 (6.06%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.52%) KDB
4 1 (1.52%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.52%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.52%) QlikView
4 1 (1.52%) SAS EBI
General
1 42 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (62.12%) Finance
3 27 (40.91%) Front Office
4 21 (31.82%) Legal
5 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 17 (25.76%) Law
7 13 (19.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (15.15%) Marketing
9 9 (13.64%) Banking
10 8 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (6.06%) Billing
12 3 (4.55%) Advertising
13 2 (3.03%) Back Office
14 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 1 (1.52%) French Language
Job Titles
1 14 (21.21%) Analyst
2 12 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 11 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 11 (16.67%) Risk Officer
4 9 (13.64%) Lead
4 9 (13.64%) Lead Data Scientist
4 9 (13.64%) Senior Data Scientist
5 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Data Insight Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Insight Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Insight Data Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Python Data Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Python Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Risk Manager
6 7 (10.61%) Senior
7 3 (4.55%) Ad Operations Executive
7 3 (4.55%) Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Head of Analytics
8 2 (3.03%) Head of Finance
8 2 (3.03%) Head of Risk Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) NumPy
1 8 (12.12%) Pandas
1 8 (12.12%) PySpark
1 8 (12.12%) SciPy
2 1 (1.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (15.15%) Fixed Income
3 9 (13.64%) Equities
3 9 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.58%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.55%) Market Risk
6 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.03%) Derivative
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) Mathematics
2 38 (57.58%) Statistics
3 37 (56.06%) Analytics
4 32 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (37.88%) Quantitative Finance
6 23 (34.85%) Model Validation
6 23 (34.85%) Validation
7 22 (33.33%) Data Analysis
7 22 (33.33%) Project Management
8 19 (28.79%) Computer Science
9 17 (25.76%) Collaborative Culture
9 17 (25.76%) Data Analytics
9 17 (25.76%) Storytelling
10 14 (21.21%) Data Science
10 14 (21.21%) Decision-Making
11 10 (15.15%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (15.15%) Risk Analytics
11 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.64%) Agile
13 8 (12.12%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (87.88%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) Java
4 6 (9.09%) R
5 4 (6.06%) C++
5 4 (6.06%) VB
6 2 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (1.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 56 (84.85%) Degree
2 38 (57.58%) Master's Degree
3 21 (31.82%) PhD
4 3 (4.55%) Postgraduate
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) Basel III
1 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Adobe
2 12 (18.18%) Google
3 9 (13.64%) Marketo
3 9 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 9 (13.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.03%) Omniture