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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 834 896
Rank change year-on-year +184 +62 +186
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 71 73 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.082% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 16 33 23
10th Percentile £85,625 £35,000 £41,799
25th Percentile £104,688 £43,000 £46,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £121,250 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +98.77% +10.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £143,750 £100,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £161,250 £130,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 53,298 89,106 85,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.19% 82.51% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 27,465 61,429 52,805
10th Percentile £27,336 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 2 July 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 2 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 +134 45 £121,250 +98.77% 292
London +89 39 £112,500 +12.50% 249
UK excluding London +188 19 - - 49
Scotland +107 14 - - 5
Work from Home +98 7 £50,000 +33.33% 76
North of England +53 5 - - 17
North West +27 5 - - 13

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 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) SPSS
3 2 (2.82%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) Adobe Analytics
2 12 (16.90%) Google Analytics
3 8 (11.27%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) Dagster
3 8 (11.27%) dbt
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.03%) Tableau
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (11.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (11.27%) Dremio
3 4 (5.63%) Power BI
3 4 (5.63%) Power Query
3 4 (5.63%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.41%) KDB
4 1 (1.41%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.41%) QlikView
4 1 (1.41%) SAS EBI
General
1 47 (66.20%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (57.75%) Finance
3 27 (38.03%) Front Office
4 23 (32.39%) Law
5 21 (29.58%) Legal
6 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
7 19 (26.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (18.31%) Marketing
9 11 (15.49%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (12.68%) Banking
11 4 (5.63%) Billing
12 3 (4.23%) Advertising
13 2 (2.82%) Back Office
14 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Analyst
2 15 (21.13%) Data Analyst
3 14 (19.72%) Data Scientist
4 12 (16.90%) Lead
4 12 (16.90%) Lead Data Scientist
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Data Scientist
5 11 (15.49%) Data Insight Analyst
5 11 (15.49%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (15.49%) Insight Data Analyst
5 11 (15.49%) Risk Officer
6 8 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Python Data Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Python Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Risk Manager
7 7 (9.86%) Senior
8 3 (4.23%) Ad Operations Executive
8 3 (4.23%) Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Head of Analytics
9 2 (2.82%) Head of Finance
9 2 (2.82%) Head of Risk Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) NumPy
1 8 (11.27%) Pandas
1 8 (11.27%) PySpark
1 8 (11.27%) SciPy
2 1 (1.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Product Ownership
1 12 (16.90%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (14.08%) Fixed Income
3 9 (12.68%) Equities
4 5 (7.04%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.23%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.82%) Derivative
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (71.83%) Mathematics
2 44 (61.97%) Statistics
3 43 (60.56%) Analytics
4 35 (49.30%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (39.44%) Data Analysis
6 25 (35.21%) Computer Science
6 25 (35.21%) Quantitative Finance
7 23 (32.39%) Collaborative Culture
7 23 (32.39%) Data Analytics
7 23 (32.39%) Model Validation
7 23 (32.39%) Storytelling
7 23 (32.39%) Validation
8 22 (30.99%) Project Management
9 17 (23.94%) Data Science
9 17 (23.94%) Decision-Making
10 13 (18.31%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (15.49%) Predictive Modelling
11 11 (15.49%) User Experience
12 10 (14.08%) Risk Analytics
12 10 (14.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (90.14%) Python
2 27 (38.03%) SQL
3 10 (14.08%) Java
4 6 (8.45%) R
5 4 (5.63%) C++
5 4 (5.63%) VB
6 2 (2.82%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 61 (85.92%) Degree
2 44 (61.97%) Master's Degree
3 21 (29.58%) PhD
4 3 (4.23%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Basel III
1 1 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.41%) GDPR
Vendors
1 23 (32.39%) Adobe
2 15 (21.13%) Google
3 12 (16.90%) Marketo
3 12 (16.90%) Salesforce
3 12 (16.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 5 (7.04%) Omniture
5 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg