Equities Contracts in Central London

Equities
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 112 129
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Equities 21 21 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.86% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.08% 2.80% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 39
10th Percentile £453 £490 £260
25th Percentile £613 £644 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £695 £694 £950
90th Percentile £745 £960 £975
London median daily rate £775 £750 £700
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +10 21 £670 -0.74% 7
Equities
London

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) KDB
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.76%) Crucible
3 1 (4.76%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (76.19%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Banking
3 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (38.10%) Front Office
5 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.76%) Back Office
7 1 (4.76%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (47.62%) Fixed Income
3 4 (19.05%) Derivative
4 3 (14.29%) Blockchain
4 3 (14.29%) Reference Data
4 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
6 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 6 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (23.81%) SDLC
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 3 (14.29%) Market Making
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (9.52%) Investment Management
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) DAML
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Groovy
6 1 (4.76%) Perl
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) CFA
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) EMIR
1 3 (14.29%) MiFID
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Control-M
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Bloomberg
2 4 (19.05%) Reuters
3 3 (14.29%) Citrix
3 3 (14.29%) Refinitiv
4 1 (4.76%) CQG
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) ION Trading