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 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 325 442 550
Rank change year-on-year +117 +108 -104
Contract jobs citing KDB 66 57 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 1.01% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 49
10th Percentile £650 £598 £623
25th Percentile £775 £625 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £763 £825
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -7.58% +17.86%
75th Percentile £947 £875 £850
90th Percentile £1,025 £939 £925
England median daily rate £850 £763 £825
% change year-on-year +11.48% -7.58% +17.86%

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 3,769 5,669 8,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.12% 20.66% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,775 4,121 6,381
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.95% +10.57%
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 37 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £25.95
25th Percentile £25.79 £23.70 £27.67
Median hourly rate £48.50 £47.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -7.77% +41.33%
75th Percentile £54.13 £74.88 £64.75
90th Percentile £64.06 £88.30 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £40.62
% change year-on-year -31.52% +44.26% +63.64%

KDB
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

KDB
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

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for KDB in London

KDB
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 19 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 +52 11 £860 +4.18% 1
East London - 1 £850 -
KDB
England

KDB
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 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.58%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.52%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.03%) GCP
1 2 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (1.52%) AWS
2 1 (1.52%) npm
2 1 (1.52%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) Kdb+
2 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.55%) Hazelcast
3 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.03%) Looker
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.55%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.52%) Babel
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Gradle
3 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 34 (51.52%) Finance
2 24 (36.36%) Front Office
3 18 (27.27%) Banking
4 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
5 13 (19.70%) Investment Banking
6 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (87.88%) Developer
2 32 (48.48%) KDB Developer
3 24 (36.36%) Java Developer
4 22 (33.33%) Senior
5 21 (31.82%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Analytics Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (7.58%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Unix Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) Analyst
12 2 (3.03%) Analyst Developer
12 2 (3.03%) C++ Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Data Analyst
12 2 (3.03%) Developer Analyst
12 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) Market Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (10.61%) Spring
2 6 (9.09%) Middleware
3 5 (7.58%) Rendezvous
4 3 (4.55%) Guice
4 3 (4.55%) HTML
4 3 (4.55%) HTML5
4 3 (4.55%) OpenFin
4 3 (4.55%) React
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (28.79%) Fixed Income
3 12 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (15.15%) Algorithms
6 9 (13.64%) Equities
7 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (9.09%) Derivative
9 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
11 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.52%) Grid Computing
12 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (28.79%) Unix
2 15 (22.73%) Linux
3 5 (7.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.03%) Electronic Trading
2 31 (46.97%) Analytics
3 24 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 21 (31.82%) Low Latency
5 20 (30.30%) Agile
6 18 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (27.27%) Multithreading
7 17 (25.76%) OO
8 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (19.70%) E-Commerce
9 13 (19.70%) SDLC
10 11 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 10 (15.15%) API Design
11 10 (15.15%) Multithreaded Programming
12 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
12 9 (13.64%) Data Analytics
12 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (62.12%) Java
2 19 (28.79%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) SQL
4 15 (22.73%) C#
5 6 (9.09%) C++
6 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) MiFID
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) ION Trading
2 8 (12.12%) Solace
3 5 (7.58%) Google
3 5 (7.58%) TIBCO
4 3 (4.55%) Tradeweb
5 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.03%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle