Quantitative Analyst
You build the mathematical models banks and funds use to price risk and spot opportunities.
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- Typical pay
- €60k–€120k
- Usual education
- Strong maths, physics or computer science degree, often a masters
- Outlook
- Growing as funds and banks lean harder on data.
A day in the life
Coding models in Python, testing them against years of market data, explaining the results to traders.
Ways in
- Maths or physics degree then a quant masters
- Data science role then a move into markets
- Quant internship at a hedge fund
What to study at 16
The subjects you choose for the final years of secondary school can shape which degrees, exams and careers are easiest to reach. This is about choosing courses, not choosing a school.
Spain
Bachillerato de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Portugal
Ciências Socioeconómicas
France
Bac général — spécialités
Germany
Oberstufe — Leistungskurse
Netherlands
Profiel Economie & Maatschappij
Poland
Liceum — rozszerzenia
Skills that matter
Best courses to take
The study routes that lead most directly into this career.
BSc Finance & Investment
Valuation, markets and corporate finance — the standard route into banking and investing.
Adds the finance context to the maths.
Helpful school subjects: Maths, Economics
BSc Data Science
Statistics plus programming for extracting meaning from large datasets.
Statistics and coding you will use daily.
Helpful school subjects: Maths, Statistics, Computer science
Places that hire for this
Bank of America
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Barclays
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Citi
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Feedzai
Internships in Coimbra and Lisbon frequently convert into full-time roles.
Goldman Sachs
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
ING
Quant risk and pricing teams.
J.P. Morgan
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Lazard
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Morgan Stanley
Internships, apprenticeships and graduate programmes open to students in this area.
Revolut
Quant work on pricing and fraud models.