Hybrid/Remote Quantitative Trading Job Trends

Quantitative Trading
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Quantitative Trading skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 435 468
Rank change year-on-year +68 +33 +257
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Trading 8 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.052% 0.057% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.062% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £127,875 - £33,250
25th Percentile £135,000 £62,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £75,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +39.53% -55.21%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £87,813
90th Percentile - - £113,125
UK median annual salary £127,500 £125,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +19.05% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Quantitative Trading falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,641 16,190 18,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.02% 92.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,739 9,805 15,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Quantitative Trading
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quantitative Trading and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quantitative Trading job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Quantitative Trading
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Trading.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Trading

Quantitative Trading
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Quantitative Trading over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Quantitative Trading salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Quantitative Trading
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

General
1 8 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Python Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Quantitative Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) PyXLL
2 3 (37.50%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (62.50%) Data Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (37.50%) Applied Mathematics
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
3 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Quantitative Research
3 3 (37.50%) Smart Order Routing
3 3 (37.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java