Quantitative Finance Jobs in London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 592 887
Rank change year-on-year +109 +295 -265
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 26 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.035% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.037% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £139,000 £62,250 -
25th Percentile £141,250 £86,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £167,500 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% -2.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £203,750 £88,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £212,000 £127,000 £127,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -45.71% -2.78% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,142 29,692 72,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.35% 95.12% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 21,866 34,403
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Finance in London

Quantitative Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +44 2 - - 1
Quantitative Finance
England

Quantitative Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) WhatsApp
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 26 (100.00%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (42.31%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Developer
2 18 (69.23%) Quantitative Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Python Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Front Office Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Head of Development
6 2 (7.69%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.85%) C++ Developer
7 1 (3.85%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) NumPy
1 11 (42.31%) Pandas
2 7 (26.92%) React
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 4 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Commons
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Hedge funds
2 7 (26.92%) Algorithms
3 5 (19.23%) Equities
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Computer Science
1 18 (69.23%) Mathematics
2 15 (57.69%) Data Analysis
3 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) Quantitative Research
4 9 (34.62%) Risk Management
5 8 (30.77%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (30.77%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
6 7 (26.92%) Econometrics
6 7 (26.92%) OO
6 7 (26.92%) Statistics
7 6 (23.08%) Physics
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (15.38%) Project Management
9 4 (15.38%) RAD
9 4 (15.38%) Statistical Analysis
9 4 (15.38%) Statistical Modelling
9 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) C++
2 14 (53.85%) Java
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (15.38%) Clojure
5 4 (15.38%) Groovy
5 4 (15.38%) Scala
6 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Degree
2 9 (34.62%) Master's Degree
3 7 (26.92%) PhD
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Bloomberg
1 4 (15.38%) Reuters