Quantitative Developer Contracts

Quant Developer
UK

The median Quant Developer daily rate in the UK is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 569 717
Rank change year-on-year +56 +148 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 89 126 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 99 128
10th Percentile £688 £675 £675
25th Percentile £763 £760 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £1,069 £950 £875
90th Percentile £1,250 £1,000 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate - £1,150 £650
% change year-on-year - +76.92% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Developer in the UK

Quantitative Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 89 £900 +5.88% 47
London +47 84 £900 +5.88% 45
Work from Home +103 43 £900 +1.18% 12
UK excluding London +44 5 - -
South East +17 5 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 62 (69.66%) Python
2 56 (62.92%) Finance
3 40 (44.94%) Derivative
4 35 (39.33%) Front Office
5 32 (35.96%) Banking
6 29 (32.58%) Fixed Income
7 27 (30.34%) C++
7 27 (30.34%) Azure
8 25 (28.09%) Java
9 23 (25.84%) Agile
9 23 (25.84%) Mathematics
10 22 (24.72%) Investment Banking
10 22 (24.72%) SQL
11 21 (23.60%) AWS
11 21 (23.60%) Hedge funds
11 21 (23.60%) DevOps
11 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
12 20 (22.47%) Degree
13 19 (21.35%) C#
13 19 (21.35%) Equities
14 15 (16.85%) Algorithmic Trading
14 15 (16.85%) Analytics
14 15 (16.85%) Quantitative Research
14 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (16.85%) CI/CD
15 14 (15.73%) Asset Management
16 13 (14.61%) Computer Science
16 13 (14.61%) Pandas
16 13 (14.61%) NumPy

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
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 1 (1.12%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.12%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.34%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) AWS
3 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.36%) GCP
5 10 (11.24%) GitHub
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (62.92%) Finance
2 35 (39.33%) Front Office
3 32 (35.96%) Banking
4 22 (24.72%) Investment Banking
5 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Retail Banking
7 4 (4.49%) Social Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) NumPy
1 13 (14.61%) Pandas
2 11 (12.36%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (12.36%) SciPy
3 4 (4.49%) .NET
4 2 (2.25%) ADO
4 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.25%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.25%) React
5 1 (1.12%) Rendezvous
5 1 (1.12%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 40 (44.94%) Derivative
2 29 (32.58%) Fixed Income
3 21 (23.60%) Hedge funds
4 19 (21.35%) Equities
5 12 (13.48%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.74%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (3.37%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.25%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.25%) Solar Panel
9 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.84%) Agile
1 23 (25.84%) Mathematics
2 21 (23.60%) DevOps
3 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
4 15 (16.85%) Algorithmic Trading
4 15 (16.85%) Analytics
4 15 (16.85%) CI/CD
4 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (16.85%) Quantitative Research
5 14 (15.73%) Asset Management
6 13 (14.61%) Computer Science
7 12 (13.48%) Electronic Trading
7 12 (13.48%) Quantitative Finance
8 11 (12.36%) Investment Management
8 11 (12.36%) SDLC
9 10 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (11.24%) Product Requirements
9 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.11%) Backtesting
11 8 (8.99%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (69.66%) Python
2 27 (30.34%) C++
3 25 (28.09%) Java
4 22 (24.72%) SQL
5 19 (21.35%) C#
6 12 (13.48%) R
7 10 (11.24%) Rust
8 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.25%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.12%) IFRS
1 1 (1.12%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.12%) IBM
2 1 (1.12%) Solace
2 1 (1.12%) TIBCO