Quantitative Research Jobs

Quantitative Research
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Quantitative Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Research over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 699 675
Rank change year-on-year +51 -24 +27
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Research 61 216 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 35 107 177
10th Percentile £51,250 £29,750 £43,752
25th Percentile £62,500 £43,421 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -28.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £128,750 £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £179,000 £168,750 £200,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year - -49.28% +44.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Research 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Quantitative Research
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Research over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Research within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +47 55 £110,000 +10.00% 545
London +52 48 £110,000 -20.00% 190
Work from Home +54 17 £90,000 -14.29% 51
UK excluding London +107 8 £35,000 - 465
North of England +39 4 - - 70
North West +2 4 - - 32
South East +76 3 £35,000 +11.11% 229
Scotland +92 1 - - 13

Quantitative Research
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 (6.56%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.20%) Google Analytics
2 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 2 (3.28%) Azure
3 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.64%) Figma
4 1 (1.64%) GCP
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) KDB
1 4 (6.56%) Mixpanel
1 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.92%) Kdb+
2 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Tableau
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.64%) Big Data
4 1 (1.64%) MySQL
4 1 (1.64%) Redis
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) Gradle
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 38 (62.30%) Finance
2 27 (44.26%) Front Office
2 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
3 19 (31.15%) Banking
4 14 (22.95%) Law
5 13 (21.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.92%) Marketing
8 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.28%) Agriculture
9 2 (3.28%) Local Government
10 1 (1.64%) Advertising
10 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Software Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Analyst
4 9 (14.75%) Business Manager
4 9 (14.75%) Python Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Python Software Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Lead
5 8 (13.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Business Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Finance Business Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Finance Manager
7 6 (9.84%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Quantitative Developer
8 5 (8.20%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) React
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) NumPy
2 1 (1.64%) Pandas
2 1 (1.64%) Qt
2 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Algorithms
1 15 (24.59%) Derivative
1 15 (24.59%) Hedge funds
2 10 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (14.75%) Equities
3 9 (14.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (13.11%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) BBC
6 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) Analytics
2 20 (32.79%) Software Engineering
3 18 (29.51%) Qualitative Research
4 17 (27.87%) Decision-Making
5 14 (22.95%) CI/CD
5 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.67%) Algorithmic Trading
6 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
6 12 (19.67%) Operational Stability
7 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.03%) TDD
8 10 (16.39%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (16.39%) Mathematics
8 10 (16.39%) User Experience
9 9 (14.75%) Usability Testing
9 9 (14.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (14.75%) Visualisation
10 8 (13.11%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) SQL
3 17 (27.87%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) C++
5 3 (4.92%) C#
6 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) PhD
4 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.64%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) BISAM
2 5 (8.20%) Google
2 5 (8.20%) Hotjar
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) Mercator
4 2 (3.28%) Vertica
5 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.64%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.64%) PayPal
5 1 (1.64%) Qubit
5 1 (1.64%) Refinitiv