Equities
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 600 448
Rank change year-on-year +148 -152 -80
Permanent jobs citing Equities 512 416 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.40% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 0.93% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 500 354 1,087
10th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £121,250 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £146,250 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £187,500 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £20,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -76.47% +30.77% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Equities.

Salary trend for Equities in the UK

Equities
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Equities over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Equities in the UK

Equities
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +176 508 £123,750 +17.86% 100
London +155 505 £125,000 +19.05% 97
Work from Home +240 327 £115,000 +24.32% 24
UK excluding London +10 3 £20,000 -76.47% 6
South West 0 3 £20,000 -76.47% 1

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
1 197 (38.48%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (33.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.39%) InDesign
2 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (2.73%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.78%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 384 (75.00%) AWS
2 266 (51.95%) GCP
3 200 (39.06%) Azure
4 155 (30.27%) dbt
5 133 (25.98%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.20%) GitHub
6 1 (0.20%) OCI
6 1 (0.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (33.98%) Apache Ignite
2 155 (30.27%) Amazon Athena
2 155 (30.27%) Apache Arrow
2 155 (30.27%) Dremio
3 132 (25.78%) Data Lake
4 28 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.98%) KDB
5 5 (0.98%) Kdb+
6 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.59%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (1.76%) JIRA
2 8 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.20%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Gradle
4 1 (0.20%) Maven
General
1 441 (86.13%) Finance
2 432 (84.38%) Front Office
3 219 (42.77%) Banking
4 178 (34.77%) Investment Banking
5 48 (9.38%) Back Office
6 42 (8.20%) Social Skills
7 13 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.39%) Advertising
9 2 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.39%) Marketing
10 1 (0.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.20%) Law
10 1 (0.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 289 (56.45%) Developer
2 211 (41.21%) Software Engineer
3 169 (33.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 120 (23.44%) Senior
5 108 (21.09%) Python Developer
6 105 (20.51%) Finance Manager
7 101 (19.73%) .NET Developer
8 96 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 90 (17.58%) Python Engineer
9 90 (17.58%) Python Software Engineer
10 87 (16.99%) .NET Software Developer
10 87 (16.99%) .NET Software Engineer
11 80 (15.63%) Lead
12 76 (14.84%) Senior Developer
13 67 (13.09%) Analyst
14 60 (11.72%) Senior Software Developer
15 59 (11.52%) Business Analyst
16 57 (11.13%) Quantitative Developer
17 47 (9.18%) Lead Developer
17 47 (9.18%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (38.09%) gRPC
1 195 (38.09%) Protocol Buffers
2 160 (31.25%) Pandas
3 152 (29.69%) React
4 146 (28.52%) NumPy
5 145 (28.32%) SciPy
6 124 (24.22%) Redux
7 115 (22.46%) .NET
8 101 (19.73%) AngularJS
8 101 (19.73%) Vue
9 59 (11.52%) .NET Core
10 51 (9.96%) ASP.NET
10 51 (9.96%) ASP.NET Core
11 42 (8.20%) Material-UI
12 16 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.98%) Middleware
14 4 (0.78%) J2SE
14 4 (0.78%) Rendezvous
15 3 (0.59%) XML
16 2 (0.39%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 421 (82.23%) Fixed Income
2 377 (73.63%) Hedge funds
3 365 (71.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 362 (70.70%) Derivative
5 47 (9.18%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.34%) Pricing Data
8 11 (2.15%) FPGA
9 8 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.59%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.39%) Animation
14 2 (0.39%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.39%) Graphic Design
14 2 (0.39%) OTC Derivatives
15 1 (0.20%) Cloud Native
15 1 (0.20%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.52%) Linux
2 8 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (77.15%) Asset Management
2 357 (69.73%) Agile
3 343 (66.99%) Software Engineering
4 342 (66.80%) Investment Management
5 84 (16.41%) Machine Learning
6 80 (15.63%) Analytics
7 79 (15.43%) Fintech
8 75 (14.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 75 (14.65%) Full Stack Development
9 64 (12.50%) Line Management
10 58 (11.33%) Quantitative Research
11 57 (11.13%) Greeks
11 57 (11.13%) TDD
12 49 (9.57%) DevOps
13 40 (7.81%) Automated Trading
14 36 (7.03%) Product Management
15 34 (6.64%) Low Latency
16 33 (6.45%) Roadmaps
17 32 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
18 31 (6.05%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 381 (74.41%) Python
2 282 (55.08%) TypeScript
3 268 (52.34%) JavaScript
4 195 (38.09%) Java
5 139 (27.15%) SQL
6 119 (23.24%) C#
7 39 (7.62%) R
8 34 (6.64%) C++
9 12 (2.34%) Ruby
9 12 (2.34%) Scala
10 6 (1.17%) VBA
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (5.86%) Degree
2 11 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.33%) Data Quality
2 46 (8.98%) QA
3 4 (0.78%) SLA
4 1 (0.20%) COREP
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.59%) Control-M
3 2 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (11.13%) Bloomberg
2 28 (5.47%) Google
3 13 (2.54%) BISAM
4 4 (0.78%) ION Trading
4 4 (0.78%) Oracle
4 4 (0.78%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe
6 1 (0.20%) FactSet
6 1 (0.20%) IBM
6 1 (0.20%) Murex
6 1 (0.20%) Progress
6 1 (0.20%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.20%) Solace
6 1 (0.20%) Sybase
6 1 (0.20%) Vertica