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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 123 172
Rank change year-on-year +4 +49 +23
Contract jobs citing KDB 5 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.49% 0.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 2.24% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
10th Percentile £493 £690 £733
25th Percentile £594 £822 £744
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 £825
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +3.03% +2.48%
75th Percentile £794 £879 £863
90th Percentile £873 £1,213 £878
London median daily rate £700 £850 £775
% change year-on-year -17.65% +9.68% -6.06%

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 426 535 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.32% 21.92% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 364 517
10th Percentile £404 £405 £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 £754 £788 £788
London median daily rate £557 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -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% -

KDB
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

KDB
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

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in Central London

KDB
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 2 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 0 5 £700 -17.65%
KDB
London

KDB
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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Strategist
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Market Making
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ION Trading