Equities Contract Job Trends 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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 117 117
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +31
Contract jobs citing Equities 6 12 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.32% 0.52% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 1.65% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 30
10th Percentile £618 £522 £501
25th Percentile £645 £723 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £731
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +16.24% +24.47%
75th Percentile £788 £953 £844
90th Percentile £870 £971 £938
London median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +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 722 727 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.42% 31.28% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 464 634
10th Percentile £350 £352 £322
25th Percentile £438 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% +3.67%
75th Percentile £685 £711 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile £16.96 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £26.20 £18.45
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -14.96% -37.13%
75th Percentile £36.00 £59.75 £48.31
90th Percentile £70.21 £79.40 £67.18
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year -22.93% +13.75% +13.21%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Equities relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Equities job vacancy trend in Central London

Equities
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equities.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equities

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in Central London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Central London

Equities
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equities.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Equities

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 4 November 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 +2 6 £725 -14.71% 30
Equities
London

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) KDB
1 2 (33.33%) Kdb+
1 2 (33.33%) Tick Data
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) KDB Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Fidessa Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
1 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) TWAP
3 1 (16.67%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Order Management
3 1 (16.67%) PnL Attribution
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (16.67%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Solace