Equities Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Equities
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Equities 15 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 0.58% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.86% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile £489 £441 £487
25th Percentile £634 £624 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £748 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +15.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £766 £925 £744
90th Percentile £786 £989 £748
Central London median daily rate £670 £748 £719
% change year-on-year -10.37% +4.00% +12.75%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Equities falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 697 644 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.17% 31.32% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 406 522
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £428 £474 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% -0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £723
90th Percentile £783 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £598
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.26% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £18.97 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £37.44 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.81 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Equities job vacancy trend in the City of London

Equities
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Equities.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Equities

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the City of London

Equities
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Equities.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Equities

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
1 3 (20.00%) Tableau
1 3 (20.00%) Tick Data
2 2 (13.33%) KDB
2 2 (13.33%) Kdb+
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Front Office
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Back Office
4 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Fidessa Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) KDB Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Market Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Market Risk Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Market Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (33.33%) Derivative
3 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.67%) TWAP
4 1 (6.67%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Order Management
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (13.33%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Data Lineage
4 2 (13.33%) Data Management
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) PnL Attribution
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
5 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CFA
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Basel III
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Solace
2 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg