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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 599 -
Rank change year-on-year +88 - -
Permanent jobs citing Quantitative Finance 4 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.019% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.024% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £65,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,188 -
90th Percentile - £104,500 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £78,750 £106,250
% change year-on-year +4.76% -25.88% -3.41%

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 30,408 38,189 28,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.42% 80.91% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18,286 18,381 21,160
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 18 November 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 - 3 - -
South West +28 1 £82,500 +6.45%
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%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Front Office
2 3 (75.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
1 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Model Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Catastrophe Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (75.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks