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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 849 920
Rank change year-on-year +215 +71 +160
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 75 63 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.061% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.073% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 17 27 30
10th Percentile £75,000 £34,675 £41,374
25th Percentile £100,000 £41,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £47,236 £58,508
Median % change year-on-year +138.17% -19.27% -9.99%
75th Percentile £143,750 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -13.00% -28.57%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Top 7 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 30 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
England +154 47 £112,500 +150.00% 69
London +120 42 £112,500 +12.50% 38
UK excluding London +195 19 - - 53
Scotland +129 14 - - 2
Work from Home +97 9 £50,000 +33.33% 39
North of England +52 5 - - 14
North West +11 5 - - 6

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 10 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) SPSS
3 2 (2.67%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 14 (18.67%) Google Analytics
3 10 (13.33%) AWS
3 10 (13.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) Dagster
3 10 (13.33%) dbt
3 10 (13.33%) GCP
4 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub
5 2 (2.67%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (41.33%) Tableau
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 10 (13.33%) Dremio
3 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) Power Query
3 4 (5.33%) PowerPivot
4 2 (2.67%) KDB
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.33%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) QlikView
5 1 (1.33%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
1 2 (2.67%) GitLab
General
1 49 (65.33%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (56.00%) Finance
3 27 (36.00%) Front Office
3 27 (36.00%) Law
4 23 (30.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
6 19 (25.33%) Legal
7 14 (18.67%) Banking
7 14 (18.67%) Marketing
8 13 (17.33%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (5.33%) Billing
10 2 (2.67%) Advertising
10 2 (2.67%) Back Office
10 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.67%) Social Science
11 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) Data Analyst
3 16 (21.33%) Data Scientist
4 14 (18.67%) Senior Data Scientist
5 13 (17.33%) Data Insight Analyst
5 13 (17.33%) Insight Analyst
5 13 (17.33%) Insight Data Analyst
5 13 (17.33%) Lead
5 13 (17.33%) Lead Data Scientist
6 11 (14.67%) Risk Officer
7 10 (13.33%) Data Engineer
7 10 (13.33%) Python Data Engineer
7 10 (13.33%) Python Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Risk Manager
9 7 (9.33%) Senior
10 4 (5.33%) Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Ad Operations Executive
11 2 (2.67%) Audit Manager
11 2 (2.67%) C++ Developer
12 1 (1.33%) Java Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) NumPy
1 10 (13.33%) Pandas
1 10 (13.33%) PySpark
1 10 (13.33%) SciPy
2 1 (1.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Product Ownership
1 14 (18.67%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (16.00%) Fixed Income
3 11 (14.67%) Equities
4 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.00%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Derivative
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (70.67%) Mathematics
2 48 (64.00%) Statistics
3 46 (61.33%) Analytics
4 35 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (42.67%) Data Analysis
6 29 (38.67%) Computer Science
7 27 (36.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 27 (36.00%) Data Analytics
7 27 (36.00%) Storytelling
8 21 (28.00%) Data Science
8 21 (28.00%) Quantitative Finance
9 19 (25.33%) Decision-Making
9 19 (25.33%) Model Validation
9 19 (25.33%) Project Management
9 19 (25.33%) Validation
10 15 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (17.33%) Predictive Modelling
11 13 (17.33%) User Experience
12 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 68 (90.67%) Python
2 31 (41.33%) SQL
3 13 (17.33%) Java
4 4 (5.33%) C++
4 4 (5.33%) R
4 4 (5.33%) VB
5 2 (2.67%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 65 (86.67%) Degree
2 44 (58.67%) Master's Degree
3 17 (22.67%) PhD
4 3 (4.00%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Basel III
2 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 27 (36.00%) Adobe
2 16 (21.33%) Google
3 14 (18.67%) Marketo
3 14 (18.67%) Salesforce
3 14 (18.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 7 (9.33%) Omniture
5 4 (5.33%) Bloomberg