Quantitative Analysis Job Trends

Quantitative Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quantitative Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 767 629 724
Rank change year-on-year -138 +95 -11
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 45 45 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.091% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.10% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 26
10th Percentile £32,575 £47,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £76,875 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% -15.00% +32.01%
75th Percentile £81,250 £111,250 £130,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £161,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,091 £32,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.41% -32.63% -48.72%

All Process & 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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Quantitative Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quantitative Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quantitative Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quantitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Top 10 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 September 2026. 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 -110 39 £47,500 -44.12% 142
London -61 34 £47,500 -44.12% 112
Work from Home -27 21 £47,500 +15.85% 56
UK excluding London -136 7 £41,091 +28.41% 36
North of England - 3 - - 8
North West - 3 - - 5
Scotland +10 2 - - 3
Midlands - 1 £41,091 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £41,091 - 7
East of England - 1 - - 4

Quantitative Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.33%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) GCP
2 6 (13.33%) Google Analytics
3 3 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (6.67%) ChatGPT
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (4.44%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 7 (15.56%) Looker
4 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.44%) Mixpanel
6 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Claude Code
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 27 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (46.67%) Finance
3 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 10 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (17.78%) Financial Institution
6 6 (13.33%) Marketing
6 6 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (11.11%) Banking
8 3 (6.67%) Front Office
8 3 (6.67%) Local Government
8 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 2 (4.44%) Games
9 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
10 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Retail
10 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Senior
3 8 (17.78%) Market Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Qualitative Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Quantitative Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Market Risk Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Risk Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Product Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Managing Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Senior User Researcher
6 3 (6.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Flash
2 1 (2.22%) NumPy
2 1 (2.22%) Pandas
2 1 (2.22%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Derivative
2 7 (15.56%) Market Risk
3 4 (8.89%) Educational Technology
3 4 (8.89%) Equities
3 4 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Decision-Making
2 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (40.00%) Analytics
4 16 (35.56%) Quantitative Research
5 15 (33.33%) AI
6 13 (28.89%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (26.67%) Business Development
7 12 (26.67%) User Experience
8 11 (24.44%) Agile
8 11 (24.44%) Machine Learning
9 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (20.00%) User Research
9 9 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 8 (17.78%) Dashboard Development
10 8 (17.78%) Risk Management
10 8 (17.78%) Statistics
11 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (15.56%) Stochastic Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) R
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Basel III
2 5 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Google
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.22%) Revolut