Quantitative Investing Job Trends

Quantitative Investment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quantitative Investing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 751 730
Rank change year-on-year +98 -21 +405
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Investing 13 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.007% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £57,500 - £110,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £206,250 £115,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £212,500 £130,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +63.46% -35.16%
75th Percentile £200,000 £218,750 £145,000
90th Percentile - - £151,000
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 43,513 56,396 51,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.12% 82.51% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 25,024 29,941 39,874
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,974 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.86% +2.86% -

Quantitative Investing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Quantitative Investing job vacancy trend in the UK

Quantitative Investing
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quantitative Investing

Quantitative Investing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Investing over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Investing in the UK

Quantitative Investing
Top 3 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 26 October 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 +92 13 £115,000 -45.88% 19
London +79 13 £115,000 -45.88% 13
Work from Home - 5 £200,000 -

Quantitative Investing
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 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) IaaS
2 6 (46.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Python Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Python Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Support
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Public Cloud
1 6 (46.15%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
1 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (46.15%) Mobile Device Management
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) Data Science
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
2 5 (38.46%) Fintech
2 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Bash
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes