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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 645 -
Rank change year-on-year +118 - -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 12 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.016% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.021% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £78,625 £45,125 -
25th Percentile £82,188 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% - -
75th Percentile £112,188 £81,250 -
90th Percentile £116,875 - -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -26.19% +5.00%

All Process and 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 29,832 43,545 32,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.68% 78.57% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 16,142 23,631 23,348
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,013
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Quantitative Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Finance 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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Finance in the UK excluding London

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 18 September 2025. 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
Scotland - 10 - -
South West +71 1 £82,500 +6.45%
South East +48 1 £110,000 +131.58% 18
Quantitative Finance
UK

Quantitative Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) LaTeX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Pinecone
1 1 (8.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (83.33%) Legal
3 8 (66.67%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) NumPy
1 1 (8.33%) Pandas
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 2 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (8.33%) CUDA
2 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Mathematics
1 10 (83.33%) Model Validation
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (83.33%) Quantitative Analysis
1 10 (83.33%) Validation
2 8 (66.67%) Project Management
2 8 (66.67%) Statistics
3 3 (25.00%) Data Science
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Physics
4 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (8.33%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) R
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 8 (66.67%) PhD
3 2 (16.67%) Postgraduate
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks