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 leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 785 1050
Rank change year-on-year +83 +265 -227
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 149 114 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 98 94 109
10th Percentile £97,500 £79,750 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £123,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +23.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £164,375 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £162,500 £152,500
UK median annual salary £137,500 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +23.75% -8.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +120 149 £137,500 +10.00% 43
Quantitative Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 104 (69.80%) Python
2 92 (61.74%) Finance
3 63 (42.28%) Hedge funds
3 63 (42.28%) Quantitative Research
4 58 (38.93%) Front Office
5 57 (38.26%) Fixed Income
6 54 (36.24%) Equities
7 42 (28.19%) Software Engineering
7 42 (28.19%) AWS
8 41 (27.52%) Agile
8 41 (27.52%) Java
9 39 (26.17%) Azure
10 38 (25.50%) Asset Management
11 36 (24.16%) Derivative
11 36 (24.16%) C++
11 36 (24.16%) Algorithmic Trading
12 34 (22.82%) Degree
12 34 (22.82%) Mathematics
12 34 (22.82%) GCP
13 33 (22.15%) Investment Management
13 33 (22.15%) R
14 32 (21.48%) Bloomberg
15 31 (20.81%) Computer Science
16 29 (19.46%) Social Skills
17 27 (18.12%) Algorithms
18 18 (12.08%) Analytics
18 18 (12.08%) Quantitative Finance
19 17 (11.41%) Quantitative Trading
19 17 (11.41%) Electronic Trading
19 17 (11.41%) Investment Banking

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 (3.36%) Apache
1 5 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.19%) AWS
2 39 (26.17%) Azure
3 34 (22.82%) GCP
4 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.01%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) KDB
3 2 (1.34%) Big Data
3 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.34%) Kdb+
3 2 (1.34%) Power BI
3 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.34%) Tick Data
4 1 (0.67%) Dremio
4 1 (0.67%) Flink
4 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 92 (61.74%) Finance
2 58 (38.93%) Front Office
3 29 (19.46%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.41%) Banking
4 17 (11.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.34%) Advertising
6 2 (1.34%) Law
7 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (7.38%) NumPy
2 11 (7.38%) Pandas
3 3 (2.01%) React
3 3 (2.01%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.01%) SciPy
3 3 (2.01%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.34%) Apache Commons
4 2 (1.34%) PySpark
4 2 (1.34%) PyTorch
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 63 (42.28%) Hedge funds
2 57 (38.26%) Fixed Income
3 54 (36.24%) Equities
4 36 (24.16%) Derivative
5 27 (18.12%) Algorithms
6 15 (10.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (7.38%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.01%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.01%) 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 (6.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.28%) Quantitative Research
2 42 (28.19%) Software Engineering
3 41 (27.52%) Agile
4 38 (25.50%) Asset Management
5 36 (24.16%) Algorithmic Trading
6 34 (22.82%) Mathematics
7 33 (22.15%) Investment Management
8 31 (20.81%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.08%) Analytics
9 18 (12.08%) Quantitative Finance
10 17 (11.41%) Electronic Trading
10 17 (11.41%) Quantitative Trading
11 15 (10.07%) Backtesting
11 15 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (9.40%) Market Making
12 14 (9.40%) Proprietary Trading
13 13 (8.72%) Data Analysis
14 12 (8.05%) Data Science
14 12 (8.05%) Fintech
14 12 (8.05%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 104 (69.80%) Python
2 41 (27.52%) Java
3 36 (24.16%) C++
4 33 (22.15%) R
5 13 (8.72%) C#
6 7 (4.70%) SQL
7 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.34%) VBA
9 1 (0.67%) C
9 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Degree
2 16 (10.74%) Master's Degree
2 16 (10.74%) PhD
3 4 (2.68%) 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 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle
2 2 (1.34%) Sybase
3 1 (0.67%) Solace