Quantitative Developer Jobs in England

Quant Developer
UK > England

The median Quant Developer salary in England is £137,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 824 1032
Rank change year-on-year +135 +208 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Quantitative Developer 151 101 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.11% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 104 83 116
10th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £125,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £155,000 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £162,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £137,500 £123,750 £100,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +23.75% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Quantitative Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England.

Salary trend for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Developer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quantitative Developer in England

Quantitative Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +157 151 £137,500 +7.84% 87
Quantitative Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Quantitative Developer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Quantitative Developer in the job title.

1 107 (70.86%) Python
2 96 (63.58%) Finance
3 68 (45.03%) Hedge funds
3 68 (45.03%) Quantitative Research
4 65 (43.05%) Fixed Income
5 63 (41.72%) Front Office
6 58 (38.41%) Equities
7 48 (31.79%) Software Engineering
8 46 (30.46%) Agile
8 46 (30.46%) AWS
9 44 (29.14%) Azure
10 42 (27.81%) Asset Management
11 41 (27.15%) Derivative
12 40 (26.49%) GCP
13 39 (25.83%) Investment Management
13 39 (25.83%) R
14 38 (25.17%) Bloomberg
14 38 (25.17%) Java
15 35 (23.18%) C++
16 33 (21.85%) Algorithmic Trading
17 29 (19.21%) Mathematics
18 28 (18.54%) Degree
19 27 (17.88%) Computer Science
19 27 (17.88%) Social Skills
20 24 (15.89%) Algorithms
21 17 (11.26%) Electronic Trading
22 16 (10.60%) Quantitative Trading
22 16 (10.60%) Investment Banking
22 16 (10.60%) Banking
23 15 (9.93%) Analytics

Quantitative Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.31%) Apache
1 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (30.46%) AWS
2 44 (29.14%) Azure
3 40 (26.49%) GCP
4 3 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.32%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) KDB
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Big Data
2 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.32%) Kdb+
2 2 (1.32%) Power BI
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.66%) Dremio
3 1 (0.66%) Flink
3 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.66%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Git
2 1 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 96 (63.58%) Finance
2 63 (41.72%) Front Office
3 27 (17.88%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.60%) Banking
4 16 (10.60%) Investment Banking
5 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.99%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.32%) Advertising
6 2 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (0.66%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.93%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (5.96%) NumPy
2 9 (5.96%) Pandas
3 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.99%) SciPy
3 3 (1.99%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Commons
4 2 (1.32%) PySpark
4 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.32%) React
5 1 (0.66%) .NET
5 1 (0.66%) Dask
5 1 (0.66%) gRPC
5 1 (0.66%) Kafka
5 1 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 68 (45.03%) Hedge funds
2 65 (43.05%) Fixed Income
3 58 (38.41%) Equities
4 41 (27.15%) Derivative
5 24 (15.89%) Algorithms
6 14 (9.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (7.28%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.99%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.03%) Quantitative Research
2 48 (31.79%) Software Engineering
3 46 (30.46%) Agile
4 42 (27.81%) Asset Management
5 39 (25.83%) Investment Management
6 33 (21.85%) Algorithmic Trading
7 29 (19.21%) Mathematics
8 27 (17.88%) Computer Science
9 17 (11.26%) Electronic Trading
10 16 (10.60%) Quantitative Trading
11 15 (9.93%) Analytics
11 15 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.93%) Quantitative Finance
12 14 (9.27%) Market Making
12 14 (9.27%) Proprietary Trading
13 13 (8.61%) Backtesting
14 12 (7.95%) Data Science
15 11 (7.28%) Fintech
15 11 (7.28%) Low Latency
16 10 (6.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 107 (70.86%) Python
2 39 (25.83%) R
3 38 (25.17%) Java
4 35 (23.18%) C++
5 11 (7.28%) C#
6 7 (4.64%) SQL
7 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) Scala
7 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.32%) VBA
8 1 (0.66%) C
8 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Degree
2 14 (9.27%) Master's Degree
2 14 (9.27%) PhD
3 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (0.66%) Docker
1 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (25.17%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle
2 2 (1.32%) Sybase
3 1 (0.66%) Solace