Equities Contracts with Work from Home Options

Equities
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 364 511
Rank change year-on-year +183 +147 -166
Contract jobs citing Equities 166 104 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.84% 1.32% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 84 86
10th Percentile £598 £475 £438
25th Percentile £688 £498 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £738
90th Percentile - £1,025 £825
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Equities
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Equities trend for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Equities.

Equities daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Equities over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Equities daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 86 (51.81%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (43.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 107 (64.46%) AWS
2 75 (45.18%) dbt
3 66 (39.76%) Snowflake
4 59 (35.54%) GCP
5 23 (13.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (45.18%) Amazon Athena
1 75 (45.18%) Apache Arrow
1 75 (45.18%) Dremio
2 72 (43.37%) Apache Ignite
3 66 (39.76%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.22%) KDB
5 5 (3.01%) Kdb+
6 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.20%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Git
2 4 (2.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.60%) Postman
3 1 (0.60%) Selenium
3 1 (0.60%) TestComplete
General
1 138 (83.13%) Finance
2 135 (81.33%) Front Office
3 98 (59.04%) Banking
4 84 (50.60%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.82%) Back Office
6 4 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Prime Brokerage
6 4 (2.41%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
7 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (39.76%) Developer
2 54 (32.53%) Software Engineer
3 42 (25.30%) Lead
4 35 (21.08%) Senior
5 34 (20.48%) Python Engineer
5 34 (20.48%) Python Software Engineer
6 32 (19.28%) Python Developer
6 32 (19.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (18.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (17.47%) Finance Manager
9 28 (16.87%) Analyst
9 28 (16.87%) Java Engineer
9 28 (16.87%) Java Software Engineer
10 24 (14.46%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (14.46%) AWS Software Engineer
10 24 (14.46%) Software Developer
11 23 (13.86%) Team Leader
12 22 (13.25%) Business Analyst
12 22 (13.25%) Lead Developer
12 22 (13.25%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (48.80%) gRPC
1 81 (48.80%) Protocol Buffers
2 78 (46.99%) Pandas
3 72 (43.37%) NumPy
3 72 (43.37%) SciPy
4 9 (5.42%) .NET
4 9 (5.42%) React
5 6 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.61%) Material-UI
5 6 (3.61%) Vue
6 5 (3.01%) WPF
7 3 (1.81%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.81%) Redux
8 2 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (1.20%) Murex MxML
9 1 (0.60%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 121 (72.89%) Derivative
2 117 (70.48%) Fixed Income
3 114 (68.67%) Hedge funds
4 100 (60.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (7.23%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.82%) Pricing Data
7 4 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.41%) DTCC
7 4 (2.41%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Clustering
9 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.42%) Unix
2 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (69.88%) Agile
2 112 (67.47%) Asset Management
3 96 (57.83%) Software Engineering
4 93 (56.02%) Investment Management
5 33 (19.88%) Analytics
6 30 (18.07%) Line Management
7 28 (16.87%) Greeks
8 18 (10.84%) Product Management
9 16 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 16 (9.64%) Machine Learning
10 14 (8.43%) Quantitative Research
11 11 (6.63%) Test Strategy
12 10 (6.02%) Test Automation
13 6 (3.61%) Collaborative Culture
13 6 (3.61%) Data Architecture
13 6 (3.61%) Electronic Trading
13 6 (3.61%) Mentoring
13 6 (3.61%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (3.01%) API Design
14 5 (3.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 121 (72.89%) Python
2 87 (52.41%) Java
3 81 (48.80%) JavaScript
3 81 (48.80%) TypeScript
4 31 (18.67%) SQL
5 21 (12.65%) C#
6 14 (8.43%) R
7 8 (4.82%) C++
8 7 (4.22%) Scala
9 6 (3.61%) Perl
9 6 (3.61%) Ruby
10 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.41%) VBA
11 2 (1.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (4.82%) Degree
2 4 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.42%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) MiFID
4 2 (1.20%) EMIR
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Ansible
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (8.43%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.20%) Murex
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle
2 2 (1.20%) Splunk
2 2 (1.20%) Sybase
3 1 (0.60%) IBM
3 1 (0.60%) Solace
3 1 (0.60%) TIBCO