Quantitative Developer Contracts in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer daily rate in England is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 516 659
Rank change year-on-year +76 +143 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 91 130 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 97 107
10th Percentile £688 £675 £675
25th Percentile £763 £757 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £1,038 £950 £875
90th Percentile £1,250 £1,105 £913
UK median daily rate £900 £850 £750
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Quantitative Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +71 89 £900 +5.88% 87
South East +16 2 - - 23
Quantitative Developer
UK

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Quantitative Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 60 (65.93%) Python
2 59 (64.84%) Finance
3 40 (43.96%) Front Office
4 37 (40.66%) Derivative
5 32 (35.16%) Fixed Income
6 28 (30.77%) Java
6 28 (30.77%) Banking
6 28 (30.77%) Azure
7 26 (28.57%) C++
8 24 (26.37%) C#
8 24 (26.37%) Agile
8 24 (26.37%) AWS
8 24 (26.37%) Hedge funds
8 24 (26.37%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (25.27%) Software Engineering
10 22 (24.18%) Investment Banking
11 21 (23.08%) Mathematics
11 21 (23.08%) SQL
11 21 (23.08%) Equities
12 19 (20.88%) DevOps
13 18 (19.78%) Degree
13 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (18.68%) Asset Management
15 16 (17.58%) Algorithmic Trading
15 16 (17.58%) Algorithms
15 16 (17.58%) Analytics
15 16 (17.58%) Quantitative Research
16 15 (16.48%) R
17 14 (15.38%) Bloomberg
17 14 (15.38%) Computer Science

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.10%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.10%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) Azure
2 24 (26.37%) AWS
3 14 (15.38%) GCP
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (64.84%) Finance
2 40 (43.96%) Front Office
3 28 (30.77%) Banking
4 24 (26.37%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (24.18%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.49%) Retail Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Social Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) NumPy
1 13 (14.29%) Pandas
2 12 (13.19%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (12.09%) SciPy
4 5 (5.49%) .NET
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) Matplotlib
5 2 (2.20%) React
6 1 (1.10%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 37 (40.66%) Derivative
2 32 (35.16%) Fixed Income
3 24 (26.37%) Hedge funds
4 21 (23.08%) Equities
5 16 (17.58%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.59%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.20%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.20%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.20%) Solar Panel
9 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.37%) Agile
2 23 (25.27%) Software Engineering
3 21 (23.08%) Mathematics
4 19 (20.88%) DevOps
5 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.68%) Asset Management
7 16 (17.58%) Algorithmic Trading
7 16 (17.58%) Analytics
7 16 (17.58%) Quantitative Research
8 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 14 (15.38%) Investment Management
9 13 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
10 12 (13.19%) Quantitative Finance
11 11 (12.09%) SDLC
11 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (10.99%) Product Requirements
13 9 (9.89%) Backtesting
14 8 (8.79%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 60 (65.93%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) Java
3 26 (28.57%) C++
4 24 (26.37%) C#
5 21 (23.08%) SQL
6 15 (16.48%) R
7 10 (10.99%) Rust
8 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.20%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) IFRS
1 1 (1.10%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.10%) IBM
2 1 (1.10%) Solace
2 1 (1.10%) TIBCO