Quantitative Investing Job Trends

Quantitative Investment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quantitative Investing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 790 771
Rank change year-on-year +122 -19 +417
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Investing 8 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.009% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - - £111,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £167,500 £120,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £170,000 £140,000
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +21.43% -30.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £195,625 £171,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £209,500 £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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +111 8 £65,000 -61.76% 3
London +67 8 £65,000 -61.76% 3

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 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) IaaS
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Support
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Public Cloud
1 6 (75.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Management
2 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Trading
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
3 6 (75.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Tenable