Equities Contracts

Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 402 388
Rank change year-on-year +90 -14 -33
Contract jobs citing Equities 315 331 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.56% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.67% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 285 515
10th Percentile £550 £475 £538
25th Percentile £650 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £813 £725
90th Percentile £888 £935 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £1,000 £505
% change year-on-year -46.15% +98.02% +15.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £85.75
Median hourly rate - - £86.50
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,220 19,810 29,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,485 13,626 20,449
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 637 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Daily rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +113 313 £750 +7.14% 132
London +75 310 £750 +7.14% 128
Work from Home +169 156 £800 +10.34% 33
Scotland +33 2 £539 -13.84% 1
UK excluding London +33 2 £539 -46.15% 7

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
1 111 (35.24%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (29.21%) Apache
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (4.76%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.95%) IntelliMatch
2 3 (0.95%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.63%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.63%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.32%) Actimize
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 171 (54.29%) AWS
2 121 (38.41%) GCP
3 76 (24.13%) Azure
4 75 (23.81%) dbt
5 65 (20.63%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.27%) Cloud Run
6 4 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.32%) OCI
7 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (29.21%) Apache Ignite
2 75 (23.81%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (23.81%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (23.81%) Dremio
3 65 (20.63%) Data Lake
4 21 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.17%) KDB
7 9 (2.86%) Kdb+
8 7 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.27%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.95%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.32%) Big Data
11 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.49%) JIRA
2 9 (2.86%) Selenium
3 6 (1.90%) Git
3 6 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.95%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) TestComplete
General
1 253 (80.32%) Finance
2 224 (71.11%) Front Office
3 181 (57.46%) Banking
4 124 (39.37%) Investment Banking
5 23 (7.30%) Social Skills
6 16 (5.08%) Prime Brokerage
7 13 (4.13%) Back Office
8 8 (2.54%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 7 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Electronics
12 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 141 (44.76%) Developer
2 92 (29.21%) Software Engineer
3 74 (23.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 62 (19.68%) Analyst
5 59 (18.73%) Finance Manager
6 58 (18.41%) Python Developer
7 49 (15.56%) Business Analyst
7 49 (15.56%) Python Engineer
7 49 (15.56%) Python Software Engineer
8 41 (13.02%) Lead
9 38 (12.06%) Senior
10 32 (10.16%) .NET Developer
11 27 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 26 (8.25%) Java Engineer
13 25 (7.94%) .NET Software Developer
13 25 (7.94%) .NET Software Engineer
13 25 (7.94%) Software Asset Manager
13 25 (7.94%) Software Manager
14 24 (7.62%) Financial Analyst
14 24 (7.62%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (32.06%) gRPC
1 101 (32.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 83 (26.35%) Pandas
3 76 (24.13%) NumPy
4 71 (22.54%) SciPy
5 61 (19.37%) React
6 48 (15.24%) Redux
7 41 (13.02%) .NET
8 27 (8.57%) Material-UI
9 21 (6.67%) .NET Core
10 17 (5.40%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.40%) Vue
11 13 (4.13%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (3.81%) WPF
13 5 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (1.27%) Matplotlib
14 4 (1.27%) Middleware
15 3 (0.95%) Murex MxML
16 1 (0.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 209 (66.35%) Fixed Income
2 200 (63.49%) Derivative
3 179 (56.83%) Hedge funds
4 158 (50.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (8.89%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.22%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.27%) DTCC
10 4 (1.27%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.95%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.63%) Clustering
12 2 (0.63%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.63%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.08%) Unix
2 8 (2.54%) Linux
3 7 (2.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (59.68%) Asset Management
2 187 (59.37%) Agile
3 162 (51.43%) Investment Management
4 155 (49.21%) Software Engineering
5 51 (16.19%) Artificial Intelligence
5 51 (16.19%) Machine Learning
6 50 (15.87%) Analytics
7 45 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
8 39 (12.38%) Fintech
9 36 (11.43%) Line Management
10 34 (10.79%) DevOps
11 32 (10.16%) Test Automation
12 28 (8.89%) TDD
13 27 (8.57%) Automated Trading
14 26 (8.25%) Greeks
15 20 (6.35%) Quantitative Research
15 20 (6.35%) Roadmaps
16 17 (5.40%) Product Management
17 16 (5.08%) Computer Science
18 15 (4.76%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 168 (53.33%) Python
2 127 (40.32%) TypeScript
3 113 (35.87%) JavaScript
4 109 (34.60%) Java
5 92 (29.21%) SQL
6 69 (21.90%) C#
7 14 (4.44%) C++
7 14 (4.44%) R
8 9 (2.86%) Scala
9 7 (2.22%) VBA
10 6 (1.90%) Perl
10 6 (1.90%) Ruby
11 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) Bash
13 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (8.57%) Degree
2 10 (3.17%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.27%) ISEB
5 2 (0.63%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.33%) QA
2 34 (10.79%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.22%) MiFID
4 5 (1.59%) IFRS
5 4 (1.27%) EMIR
6 2 (0.63%) Basel III
6 2 (0.63%) GAAP
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.63%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) COREP
7 1 (0.32%) FINREP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.63%) Ansible
1 2 (0.63%) Control-M
1 2 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 32 (10.16%) Bloomberg
2 20 (6.35%) Google
3 12 (3.81%) BISAM
4 6 (1.90%) Oracle
5 4 (1.27%) Murex
6 3 (0.95%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.63%) IBM
7 2 (0.63%) Splunk
7 2 (0.63%) Sybase
8 1 (0.32%) Charles River
8 1 (0.32%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.32%) Solace
8 1 (0.32%) TIBCO