Quantitative Finance Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance (Mathematical Finance)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Quantitative Finance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 530 642
Rank change year-on-year -106 +112 -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 4 14 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.041% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.047% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile - £78,500 £45,125
25th Percentile - £81,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £93,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +20.97% -
75th Percentile - £108,750 £81,250
90th Percentile - £115,500 -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% -36.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,358 29,781 44,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.17% 86.40% 77.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40,721 16,208 25,443
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quantitative Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Quantitative Finance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Quantitative Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Quantitative Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Quantitative Finance

Quantitative Finance
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
North East - 4 £100,000 - 1
North of England - 4 £100,000 - 2
Quantitative Finance
UK

Quantitative Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Quant Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
1 4 (100.00%) Quantitative Trading
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#