Equities Contracts in the City of London

Equities
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 128 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Equities 18 43 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.82% 1.19% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.65% 3.35% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 39 31
10th Percentile £481 £443 £419
25th Percentile £659 £600 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +26.05%
75th Percentile £691 £950 £913
90th Percentile £745 £975 -
Central London median daily rate £675 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +27.12%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 680 1,284 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.08% 35.56% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 878 1,088
10th Percentile £271 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £850 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +190.17%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) KDB
2 1 (5.56%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (50.00%) Banking
1 9 (50.00%) Front Office
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Prime Brokerage
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Automation Tester
2 7 (38.89%) Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
1 2 (11.11%) NumPy
1 2 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.56%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Derivative
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.56%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (16.67%) Analytics
2 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 3 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 2 (11.11%) Multithreading
3 2 (11.11%) SDLC
3 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.56%) High Availability
4 1 (5.56%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) IBM
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.56%) Solace
1 1 (5.56%) TIBCO