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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 632 860
Rank change year-on-year -72 +228 +96
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Investing 6 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.013% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £150,000 £100,000 £151,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 £115,000 £170,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -32.35% +70.00%
75th Percentile £170,000 £155,000 £172,500
90th Percentile - £197,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process & 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 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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
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 May 2026. 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
London -11 6 £160,000 +39.13% 5
England -67 6 £160,000 +39.13% 5

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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
1 3 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Backtesting
1 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft