Quantitative Developer Jobs

Quant Developer
UK

The median Quant Developer salary in the UK is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 753 889
Rank change year-on-year +136 +136 +220
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 83 159 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 44 112 77
10th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £137,500 £122,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% +22.50%
75th Percentile £165,000 £155,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £174,250 £172,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 - £90,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +91 83 £140,000 +1.82% 131
London +23 81 £140,000 +1.82% 124
Work from Home +71 4 £70,000 -49.09% 34
UK excluding London - 2 £100,000 - 46
North of England - 2 £100,000 - 5
North East - 2 £100,000 - 3

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Quantitative Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 64 (77.11%) Python
2 49 (59.04%) C++
3 47 (56.63%) Low Latency
4 45 (54.22%) Hedge funds
5 43 (51.81%) Equities
6 39 (46.99%) Finance
7 35 (42.17%) Linux
8 28 (33.73%) Multithreading
8 28 (33.73%) Algorithms
9 21 (25.30%) Degree
9 21 (25.30%) Physics
9 21 (25.30%) Algorithmic Trading
10 20 (24.10%) Front Office
11 19 (22.89%) OO
11 19 (22.89%) Analytics
12 18 (21.69%) OOP
13 17 (20.48%) Mathematics
13 17 (20.48%) Data Structures
14 15 (18.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 14 (16.87%) Test Automation
15 14 (16.87%) Management Information System
15 14 (16.87%) Master's Degree
15 14 (16.87%) Order Management
16 13 (15.66%) PhD
16 13 (15.66%) Visualisation
17 12 (14.46%) Data Visualisation
17 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
17 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
17 12 (14.46%) Fixed Income
17 12 (14.46%) Data Management

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.25%) Azure
2 1 (1.20%) GCP
2 1 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) KDB
2 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.20%) Redis
2 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
General
1 39 (46.99%) Finance
2 20 (24.10%) Front Office
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Advertising
6 3 (3.61%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 11 (13.25%) Pandas
3 10 (12.05%) NumPy
4 8 (9.64%) React
5 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.43%) Flask
5 7 (8.43%) Plotly
6 1 (1.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.20%) SciPy
6 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (54.22%) Hedge funds
2 43 (51.81%) Equities
3 28 (33.73%) Algorithms
4 17 (20.48%) Data Structures
5 14 (16.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (14.46%) Fixed Income
7 8 (9.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (8.43%) Derivative
9 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (3.61%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (2.41%) Market Risk
11 2 (2.41%) Replication
12 1 (1.20%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 1 (1.20%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 35 (42.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) Low Latency
2 28 (33.73%) Multithreading
3 21 (25.30%) Algorithmic Trading
3 21 (25.30%) Physics
4 19 (22.89%) Analytics
4 19 (22.89%) OO
5 18 (21.69%) OOP
6 17 (20.48%) Mathematics
7 14 (16.87%) Order Management
7 14 (16.87%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.66%) Visualisation
9 12 (14.46%) Data Management
9 12 (14.46%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (13.25%) CI/CD
10 11 (13.25%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.25%) Dashboard Development
11 10 (12.05%) Risk Management
12 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
13 8 (9.64%) Backtesting
14 7 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 64 (77.11%) Python
2 49 (59.04%) C++
3 7 (8.43%) Java
4 5 (6.02%) SQL
5 4 (4.82%) C#
6 3 (3.61%) VBA
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Degree
2 14 (16.87%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.66%) PhD
4 2 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.20%) Google
2 1 (1.20%) Murex