Kdb+ Contracts in London

Kx Systems Kdb+
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 480 589
Rank change year-on-year +101 +109 -130
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.084% 0.055% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 0.27% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile £635 £655 -
25th Percentile £650 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £894 -
90th Percentile £815 £1,000 £903
England median daily rate £800 £825 £700
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,788 5,632 8,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.20% 20.63% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,786 4,098 6,317
10th Percentile £376 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.94 £34.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% +50.52%
75th Percentile £54.34 £75.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.47 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kdb+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kdb+ in London.

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kdb+ within the London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +39 1 £700 -11.11%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (6.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Front Office
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) KDB Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Unix Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
1 10 (66.67%) API Design
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Backtesting
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Science
5 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (6.67%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality