Kdb+ Contracts in Central London

Kx Systems Kdb+
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Kdb+ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kdb+ 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 128 132 170
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 -
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.050% 0.041% 0.052%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £729
25th Percentile £650 £650 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £788
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £859
90th Percentile - - £876
London median daily rate £675 £800 £825
% change year-on-year -15.63% -3.03% +17.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Kdb+ falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 530 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.33% 21.67% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 360 520
10th Percentile £404 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in Central London

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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 Kdb+ 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 +8 1 £700 -
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London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) KDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes