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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 673 701
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +27
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Research 45 226 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 35 117 174
10th Percentile £51,250 £29,750 £42,815
25th Percentile £62,500 £44,598 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +75.00%
75th Percentile £128,750 £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £148,000 £168,750 £200,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year - -49.28% +49.19%

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 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Research in the UK

Quantitative Research
Top 7 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 16 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 +19 42 £110,000 +4.76% 308
London +26 39 £110,000 -20.00% 274
Work from Home +51 15 £90,000 -14.29% 105
UK excluding London +96 3 £35,000 - 104
South East +87 2 £35,000 +11.11% 74
North of England +35 1 £36,500 -26.43% 20
North West -4 1 £36,500 -43.85% 12

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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) Azure
1 2 (4.44%) Figma
1 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (2.22%) AWS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.22%) GCP
2 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Power BI
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.44%) Tableau
2 1 (2.22%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) KDB
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Redis
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
2 7 (15.56%) Gradle
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 27 (60.00%) Finance
2 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (33.33%) Front Office
4 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (17.78%) Banking
6 4 (8.89%) Law
7 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.67%) Local Government
7 3 (6.67%) Marketing
7 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.44%) Retail
9 1 (2.22%) Advertising
9 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Business Manager
4 7 (15.56%) Business Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Finance Business Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Finance Manager
5 6 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) User Researcher
7 4 (8.89%) C++ Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior
9 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.44%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Research Analyst
10 1 (2.22%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Kafka
1 1 (2.22%) NumPy
1 1 (2.22%) Pandas
1 1 (2.22%) Qt
1 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.22%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Hedge funds
2 12 (26.67%) Algorithms
3 9 (20.00%) Equities
4 8 (17.78%) Derivative
4 8 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (17.78%) Fixed Income
4 8 (17.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.22%) BBC
6 1 (2.22%) Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Agile
2 15 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
3 13 (28.89%) Analytics
3 13 (28.89%) Decision-Making
4 12 (26.67%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (17.78%) Asset Management
7 8 (17.78%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (17.78%) Portfolio Management
7 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) BDD
8 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
8 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.56%) Performance Attribution
8 7 (15.56%) TDD
8 7 (15.56%) User Experience
8 7 (15.56%) User Research
8 7 (15.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 16 (35.56%) Python
3 8 (17.78%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) C++
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) R
7 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) BISAM
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Adobe
3 2 (4.44%) Mercator
4 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Hotjar
4 1 (2.22%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.22%) Qubit
4 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv