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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 103 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Equities 26 12 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 0.66% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 2.02% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 17
10th Percentile £506 £521 £463
25th Percentile £575 £600 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -0.74% -
75th Percentile £749 £731 £744
90th Percentile £760 £776 £747
Central London median daily rate £670 £670 £675
% change year-on-year - -0.74% -

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 689 593 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.78% 32.49% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 375 490
10th Percentile £350 £368 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.91%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £19.03 - £12.75
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -53.09%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £41.94
90th Percentile £50.83 - £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% +63.16% -45.71%

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 25 February 2026.

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 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Fidessa
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.85%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Tick Data
2 3 (11.54%) KDB
2 3 (11.54%) Kdb+
2 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Tableau
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Maven
2 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Front Office
4 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (23.08%) Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Back Office
6 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.69%) Marketing
8 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
8 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Fidessa Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) KDB Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Functional Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Market Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Market Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Market Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 4 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (11.54%) JMS
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) Middleware
3 3 (11.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (30.77%) Derivative
2 8 (30.77%) Fixed Income
3 4 (15.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
6 1 (3.85%) TWAP
6 1 (3.85%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Order Management
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Data Analysis
3 7 (26.92%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (23.08%) Algorithmic Trading
5 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
6 4 (15.38%) Low Latency
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 4 (15.38%) Smart Order Routing
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) CFA
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) Basel III
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) IFRS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Charles River
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg
2 3 (11.54%) SimCorp
2 3 (11.54%) Solace
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Vermilion