Quantitative Investing Jobs

Quantitative Investment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Quantitative Investing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Investing 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 713 902 925
Rank change year-on-year +189 +23 +355
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Investing 8 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.006% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile - £157,750 £89,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £167,500 £100,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £170,000 £131,250
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +29.52% -34.54%
75th Percentile £113,125 £172,500 £171,250
90th Percentile £132,250 - £200,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Investing 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 Investing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Quantitative Investing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Investing in the UK

Quantitative Investing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Investing in the UK

Quantitative Investing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Investing over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Investing in the UK

Quantitative Investing
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Investing 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 +153 8 £85,000 -50.00% 55
London +99 8 £85,000 -50.00% 51

Quantitative Investing
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 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Back Office
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Support
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Low Latency C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 4 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (37.50%) Hedge funds
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Metaprogramming
2 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Tenable