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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 849 917
Rank change year-on-year +219 +68 +170
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 84 62 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.062% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.073% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 34
10th Percentile £81,250 £34,593 £40,971
25th Percentile £100,000 £41,375 £42,281
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 £152,500 £100,000 £103,750
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 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 22 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 22 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 +166 56 £112,500 +155.68% 150
London +134 51 £112,500 +57.34% 118
UK excluding London +190 19 - - 57
Scotland +137 14 - - 5
Work from Home +115 8 - - 79
North of England +52 5 - - 11
North West +2 5 - - 4

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 12 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.57%) SPSS
3 2 (2.38%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) Adobe Analytics
2 14 (16.67%) Google Analytics
3 12 (14.29%) AWS
3 12 (14.29%) Azure
3 12 (14.29%) Dagster
3 12 (14.29%) dbt
3 12 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) Tableau
2 12 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
2 12 (14.29%) Dremio
3 4 (4.76%) Power BI
3 4 (4.76%) Power Query
3 4 (4.76%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.19%) KDB
4 1 (1.19%) Metadata
4 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.19%) QlikView
4 1 (1.19%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
1 4 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 51 (60.71%) Finance
2 46 (54.76%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (42.86%) Front Office
4 27 (32.14%) Law
5 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
6 21 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (21.43%) Banking
8 17 (20.24%) Legal
9 14 (16.67%) Marketing
10 13 (15.48%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (4.76%) Billing
11 4 (4.76%) Retail Banking
11 4 (4.76%) Social Science
12 2 (2.38%) Back Office
12 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Analyst
2 17 (20.24%) Data Analyst
3 16 (19.05%) Data Scientist
4 14 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
5 13 (15.48%) Data Insight Analyst
5 13 (15.48%) Insight Analyst
5 13 (15.48%) Insight Data Analyst
5 13 (15.48%) Lead
5 13 (15.48%) Lead Data Scientist
6 12 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 12 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
6 12 (14.29%) Python Engineer
7 11 (13.10%) Risk Officer
8 9 (10.71%) Business Analyst
8 9 (10.71%) Business Manager
8 9 (10.71%) Product Analyst
8 9 (10.71%) Product Business Analyst
8 9 (10.71%) Product Manager
9 8 (9.52%) Risk Manager
10 5 (5.95%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) NumPy
1 12 (14.29%) Pandas
1 12 (14.29%) PySpark
1 12 (14.29%) SciPy
2 1 (1.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Product Ownership
2 22 (26.19%) Equities
2 22 (26.19%) Fixed Income
3 14 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (13.10%) Derivative
4 11 (13.10%) Hedge funds
5 10 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.57%) Credit Risk
6 3 (3.57%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (65.48%) Analytics
2 50 (59.52%) Mathematics
3 47 (55.95%) Statistics
4 32 (38.10%) Data Analysis
4 32 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (34.52%) Computer Science
5 29 (34.52%) Storytelling
6 27 (32.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 27 (32.14%) Data Analytics
7 25 (29.76%) Data Science
8 22 (26.19%) Agile
9 21 (25.00%) Asset Management
9 21 (25.00%) Front End Development
9 21 (25.00%) Investment Management
9 21 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
9 21 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
9 21 (25.00%) Roadmaps
10 18 (21.43%) Decision-Making
10 18 (21.43%) Quantitative Finance
11 17 (20.24%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (80.95%) Python
2 33 (39.29%) SQL
3 14 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (4.76%) R
4 4 (4.76%) VB
5 3 (3.57%) C++
6 1 (1.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 77 (91.67%) Degree
2 44 (52.38%) Master's Degree
3 17 (20.24%) PhD
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) MPhil
4 2 (2.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Basel III
2 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.19%) GDPR
Vendors
1 27 (32.14%) Adobe
2 14 (16.67%) Google
2 14 (16.67%) Marketo
2 14 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 14 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 7 (8.33%) Omniture
4 4 (4.76%) Bloomberg