Equities Contracts in Central London

Equities
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 132 147
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing Equities 21 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.85% 1.13% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 3.10% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 40 36
10th Percentile £490 £260 £419
25th Percentile £644 £534 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +18.90%
75th Percentile £694 £950 £806
90th Percentile £960 £975 £913
London median daily rate £750 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 763 1,421 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.98% 36.59% 35.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 968 1,223
10th Percentile £263 £313 £383
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £689
90th Percentile £845 £850 £800
London median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 24
10th Percentile £13.08 £19.14 £20.53
25th Percentile £18.20 £27.50 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.13 £78.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £47.98 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.77
% change year-on-year -25.71% -20.04% +36.78%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in Central London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in Central London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Central London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in Central London

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 23 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 +26 19 £675 - 2
City of Westminster - 2 £781 -
Equities
London

Equities
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) KDB
2 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (47.62%) Banking
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Front Office
3 7 (33.33%) Prime Brokerage
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 7 (33.33%) Tester
3 5 (23.81%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Report Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) SQL Reporting Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) C++ Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Project Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Support Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) NumPy
1 3 (14.29%) Pandas
2 2 (9.52%) Matplotlib
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Derivative
2 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 2 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 3 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 3 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) SDLC
5 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
6 1 (4.76%) API Design
6 1 (4.76%) Concurrent Programming
6 1 (4.76%) Functional Programming
6 1 (4.76%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (4.76%) SDET
6 1 (4.76%) Systematic Trading
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) IBM
1 1 (4.76%) Solace
1 1 (4.76%) TIBCO