KDB Contract Job Trends in Central London

Kx Systems KDB
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring KDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 127 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +56
Contract jobs citing KDB 6 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.30% 0.22% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.10% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £513 £779 £738
25th Percentile £600 £784 £798
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £847 £975
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -13.15% +95.00%
75th Percentile £925 £899 £1,000
90th Percentile £966 £937 £1,088
London median daily rate £838 £800 £850
% change year-on-year +4.69% -5.88% +29.28%

All Database & BI 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 373 455 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.49% 19.82% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 300 376
10th Percentile £331 £412 £375
25th Percentile £413 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £701
90th Percentile £749 £789 £806
London median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £35.38 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £39.69 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £56.69 £41.38 -
90th Percentile £60.93 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £50.25 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +17.54% -5.00% -14.29%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

KDB job vacancy trend in Central London

KDB
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in Central London over the 6 months to 29 December 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 29 December 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 -6 6 £775 -8.47% 9
KDB
London

KDB
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Kdb+
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) QUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) KDB Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Altair
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
3 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (33.33%) Equities
5 1 (16.67%) Derivative
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Complexity Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (33.33%) Flow Trading
4 2 (33.33%) Physics
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Automated Trading
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ION Trading
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft