Quantitative Developer Jobs in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer salary in England is £137,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 800 1037
Rank change year-on-year +114 +237 -250
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 150 109 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.13% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 101 91 112
10th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £125,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £157,500 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £162,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £137,500 £125,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +184 150 £137,500 +7.84% 50
Quantitative Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Quantitative Developer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 105 (70.00%) Python
2 93 (62.00%) Finance
3 64 (42.67%) Hedge funds
3 64 (42.67%) Quantitative Research
4 61 (40.67%) Fixed Income
5 60 (40.00%) Front Office
6 55 (36.67%) Equities
7 44 (29.33%) Software Engineering
7 44 (29.33%) AWS
8 42 (28.00%) Agile
9 41 (27.33%) Java
9 41 (27.33%) Azure
10 39 (26.00%) Asset Management
11 38 (25.33%) Derivative
12 36 (24.00%) C++
12 36 (24.00%) GCP
13 35 (23.33%) R
13 35 (23.33%) Investment Management
14 34 (22.67%) Algorithmic Trading
14 34 (22.67%) Bloomberg
15 31 (20.67%) Degree
15 31 (20.67%) Mathematics
16 28 (18.67%) Computer Science
17 27 (18.00%) Social Skills
18 26 (17.33%) Algorithms
19 17 (11.33%) Investment Banking
19 17 (11.33%) Banking
19 17 (11.33%) Electronic Trading
19 17 (11.33%) Analytics
20 16 (10.67%) PhD

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 5 (3.33%) Apache
1 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) AWS
2 41 (27.33%) Azure
3 36 (24.00%) GCP
4 3 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.33%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) KDB
1 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.33%) Big Data
2 2 (1.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.33%) Kdb+
2 2 (1.33%) Power BI
2 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.67%) Dremio
3 1 (0.67%) Flink
3 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 93 (62.00%) Finance
2 60 (40.00%) Front Office
3 27 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.33%) Banking
4 17 (11.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.33%) Advertising
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (0.67%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (6.00%) NumPy
2 9 (6.00%) Pandas
3 3 (2.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.00%) SciPy
3 3 (2.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Commons
4 2 (1.33%) PySpark
4 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.33%) React
5 1 (0.67%) .NET
5 1 (0.67%) Dask
5 1 (0.67%) gRPC
5 1 (0.67%) Kafka
5 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 64 (42.67%) Hedge funds
2 61 (40.67%) Fixed Income
3 55 (36.67%) Equities
4 38 (25.33%) Derivative
5 26 (17.33%) Algorithms
6 15 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (7.33%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.00%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (42.67%) Quantitative Research
2 44 (29.33%) Software Engineering
3 42 (28.00%) Agile
4 39 (26.00%) Asset Management
5 35 (23.33%) Investment Management
6 34 (22.67%) Algorithmic Trading
7 31 (20.67%) Mathematics
8 28 (18.67%) Computer Science
9 17 (11.33%) Analytics
9 17 (11.33%) Electronic Trading
10 16 (10.67%) Quantitative Trading
11 15 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (10.00%) Quantitative Finance
12 14 (9.33%) Backtesting
12 14 (9.33%) Market Making
12 14 (9.33%) Proprietary Trading
13 12 (8.00%) Data Science
13 12 (8.00%) Fintech
13 12 (8.00%) Low Latency
14 11 (7.33%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 105 (70.00%) Python
2 41 (27.33%) Java
3 36 (24.00%) C++
4 35 (23.33%) R
5 13 (8.67%) C#
6 7 (4.67%) SQL
7 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.33%) VBA
8 1 (0.67%) C
8 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (20.67%) Degree
2 16 (10.67%) PhD
3 15 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
1 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (22.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle
2 2 (1.33%) Sybase
3 1 (0.67%) Solace