KDB Contracts in the City of London

Kx Systems KDB
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for KDB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited KDB over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 173 190
Rank change year-on-year +53 +17 -42
Contract jobs citing KDB 11 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.081% 0.047%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 0.37% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £770 £733 -
25th Percentile £824 £744 £778
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £860 £825 £805
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +2.48% +19.26%
75th Percentile £962 £863 £833
90th Percentile £1,213 £878 -
Central London median daily rate £860 £825 £805
% change year-on-year +4.18% +2.48% +19.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

KDB is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 485 807 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.84% 21.84% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 501 731
10th Percentile £405 £415 £425
25th Percentile £475 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £730 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +158.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +178.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for KDB 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 KDB in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for KDB in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KDB 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 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ION MarketView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) KDB Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C++ Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C++/Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Developer Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Java Analyst Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Market Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Market Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Market Data Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Pricing Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Fixed Income
1 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Low Latency
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Reinforcement Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (9.09%) Complexity Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Bloomberg
1 2 (18.18%) Solace
1 2 (18.18%) TIBCO
2 1 (9.09%) ION Trading