KDB Contracts in Central London

Kx Systems KDB
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for KDB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited KDB over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 177 196
Rank change year-on-year +56 +19 -45
Contract jobs citing KDB 12 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.49% 0.078% 0.044%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 0.37% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £690 £733 -
25th Percentile £822 £744 £778
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £825 £805
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +2.48% +19.26%
75th Percentile £879 £863 £833
90th Percentile £1,213 £878 -
London median daily rate £850 £775 £825
% change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +17.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

KDB is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 535 821 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.68% 21.26% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 525 768
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +202.50%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £49.25 £53.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.37% +2.38% +50.52%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +52 12 £850 +3.03%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ION MarketView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) KDB Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C++ Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C++/Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Java Analyst Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Market Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Market Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Market Data Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Equities
4 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 4 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
3 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Reinforcement Learning
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 2 (16.67%) Solace
1 2 (16.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (8.33%) ION Trading