Quantitative Finance Jobs

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Quantitative Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 892 925 1232
Rank change year-on-year +33 +307 -332
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 29 15 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.016% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.017% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £44,000 £62,250 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £86,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% -2.78% +18.03%
75th Percentile £162,500 £88,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £195,500 £127,000 £127,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Finance 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 90,269 88,624 164,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.80% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,401 53,794 83,120
10th Percentile £29,605 £33,838 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Quantitative Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in the UK

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in the UK

Quantitative Finance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Finance in the UK

Quantitative Finance
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Finance within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +51 29 £47,500 -45.71% 32
London +102 26 £167,500 +91.43% 30
Work from Home +29 7 £47,500 - 9
South East -15 3 £47,500 - 1
UK excluding London -48 3 £47,500 - 2

Quantitative Finance
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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) WhatsApp
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 29 (100.00%) Finance
2 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
3 11 (37.93%) Front Office
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Developer
2 18 (62.07%) Quantitative Developer
3 15 (51.72%) Python Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Front Office Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Head of Development
5 3 (10.34%) Research Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Research Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.45%) C++ Developer
7 1 (3.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Haskell Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Rust Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) NumPy
1 11 (37.93%) Pandas
2 7 (24.14%) React
3 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
3 4 (13.79%) CSS
3 4 (13.79%) FastAPI
3 4 (13.79%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (13.79%) HTML
3 4 (13.79%) Kafka
3 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (13.79%) REST
3 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Commons
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) Hedge funds
2 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
3 5 (17.24%) Equities
4 3 (10.34%) Mixed Reality
4 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Computer Science
1 21 (72.41%) Mathematics
2 15 (51.72%) Data Analysis
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Quantitative Research
4 9 (31.03%) Physics
4 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
5 8 (27.59%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (27.59%) Analytics
6 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
6 7 (24.14%) Econometrics
6 7 (24.14%) OO
6 7 (24.14%) Statistics
7 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
9 4 (13.79%) Backtesting
9 4 (13.79%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
9 4 (13.79%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) C++
2 14 (48.28%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) Clojure
5 4 (13.79%) Groovy
5 4 (13.79%) Scala
6 3 (10.34%) Go
6 3 (10.34%) Haskell
6 3 (10.34%) Rust
7 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (82.76%) Degree
2 9 (31.03%) Master's Degree
3 7 (24.14%) PhD
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Bloomberg
1 4 (13.79%) Reuters