Equities Jobs

Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 572 487
Rank change year-on-year +176 -85 -110
Permanent jobs citing Equities 662 413 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.44% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 1.01% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 646 337 1,042
10th Percentile £77,500 £66,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £88,125 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £146,250 £142,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +204 658 £117,500 +6.82% 123
London +165 655 £120,000 +9.09% 117
Work from Home +274 465 £115,000 +26.03% 57
South West -27 3 £20,000 -76.47%
UK excluding London -40 3 £20,000 -76.47% 6

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 349 (52.72%) Apache Airflow
2 340 (51.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.30%) InDesign
2 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.60%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.30%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 546 (82.48%) AWS
2 315 (47.58%) GCP
3 297 (44.86%) dbt
4 264 (39.88%) Snowflake
5 210 (31.72%) Azure
6 12 (1.81%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (49.55%) Apache Ignite
2 297 (44.86%) Apache Arrow
2 297 (44.86%) Dremio
3 285 (43.05%) Amazon Athena
4 274 (41.39%) Data Lake
5 52 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.81%) Big Data
6 12 (1.81%) Power BI
6 12 (1.81%) Tableau
7 6 (0.91%) Tick Data
8 5 (0.76%) KDB
8 5 (0.76%) Kdb+
9 4 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.15%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 18 (2.72%) Cypress.io
2 9 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.36%) JIRA
3 8 (1.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.15%) Git
4 1 (0.15%) Gradle
4 1 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 595 (89.88%) Finance
2 579 (87.46%) Front Office
3 385 (58.16%) Banking
4 319 (48.19%) Investment Banking
5 49 (7.40%) Back Office
5 49 (7.40%) Social Skills
6 11 (1.66%) Financial Institution
7 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.45%) Law
9 2 (0.30%) Advertising
9 2 (0.30%) Marketing
9 2 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 311 (46.98%) Developer
2 308 (46.53%) Software Engineer
3 204 (30.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 173 (26.13%) Senior
5 167 (25.23%) Python Engineer
5 167 (25.23%) Python Software Engineer
6 151 (22.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 137 (20.69%) Python Developer
8 125 (18.88%) Lead
9 111 (16.77%) Finance Manager
10 101 (15.26%) Java Engineer
10 101 (15.26%) Java Software Engineer
11 100 (15.11%) AWS Engineer
11 100 (15.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 92 (13.90%) .NET Developer
13 80 (12.08%) .NET Software Developer
13 80 (12.08%) .NET Software Engineer
13 80 (12.08%) Analyst
14 72 (10.88%) Senior Developer
15 69 (10.42%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (52.42%) gRPC
1 347 (52.42%) Protocol Buffers
2 290 (43.81%) Pandas
3 277 (41.84%) NumPy
4 275 (41.54%) SciPy
5 168 (25.38%) React
6 143 (21.60%) Redux
7 110 (16.62%) .NET
8 93 (14.05%) AngularJS
9 92 (13.90%) Vue
10 66 (9.97%) Material-UI
11 57 (8.61%) .NET Core
12 44 (6.65%) ASP.NET
12 44 (6.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (2.57%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (0.60%) Middleware
14 4 (0.60%) Rendezvous
15 3 (0.45%) REST
15 3 (0.45%) XML
15 3 (0.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 566 (85.50%) Fixed Income
2 534 (80.66%) Hedge funds
3 493 (74.47%) Derivative
4 490 (74.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 62 (9.37%) Product Ownership
6 42 (6.34%) Pricing Data
7 17 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.81%) FPGA
9 9 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.30%) Animation
14 2 (0.30%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.30%) Graphic Design
14 2 (0.30%) OTC Derivatives
14 2 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.15%) Client/Server
15 1 (0.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.72%) Linux
2 5 (0.76%) Unix
3 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (83.08%) Asset Management
2 515 (77.79%) Agile
3 484 (73.11%) Software Engineering
4 467 (70.54%) Investment Management
5 117 (17.67%) Greeks
6 112 (16.92%) Machine Learning
7 104 (15.71%) Line Management
8 102 (15.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 95 (14.35%) Full Stack Development
10 94 (14.20%) Analytics
11 74 (11.18%) Fintech
12 58 (8.76%) Automated Trading
13 50 (7.55%) TDD
14 47 (7.10%) Quantitative Research
15 42 (6.34%) DevOps
15 42 (6.34%) Product Management
16 36 (5.44%) Portfolio Management
17 33 (4.98%) Low Latency
18 30 (4.53%) Multithreading
18 30 (4.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 544 (82.18%) Python
2 431 (65.11%) TypeScript
3 391 (59.06%) JavaScript
4 324 (48.94%) Java
5 174 (26.28%) SQL
6 110 (16.62%) C#
7 35 (5.29%) R
8 30 (4.53%) C++
9 12 (1.81%) Ruby
9 12 (1.81%) Scala
10 9 (1.36%) VBA
11 1 (0.15%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (4.08%) Degree
2 9 (1.36%) Master's Degree
3 6 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.15%) CFA
4 1 (0.15%) ISEB
4 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.15%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (17.67%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.04%) QA
3 4 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.91%) Control-M
3 2 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (8.31%) Bloomberg
2 52 (7.85%) Google
3 14 (2.11%) BISAM
4 4 (0.60%) ION Trading
4 4 (0.60%) Oracle
4 4 (0.60%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.30%) Adobe
6 1 (0.15%) FactSet
6 1 (0.15%) Murex
6 1 (0.15%) Progress
6 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.15%) Solace
6 1 (0.15%) Sybase
6 1 (0.15%) Vertica