Equities Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 113 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing Equities 16 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.88% 0.79% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.52% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 31
10th Percentile £425 £483 £518
25th Percentile £588 £663 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -1.79% -12.50%
75th Percentile £703 £850 £813
90th Percentile £750 £959 £950
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.57% -12.50%

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 642 674 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.33% 31.51% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 443 794
10th Percentile £354 £288 £346
25th Percentile £475 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £848 £863
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) KDB
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) Crucible
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
3 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
5 3 (18.75%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (43.75%) Fixed Income
3 3 (18.75%) Blockchain
3 3 (18.75%) Derivative
3 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
4 3 (18.75%) Market Making
4 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (12.50%) Fund Management
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) MoSCoW
6 1 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) DAML
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) EMIR
1 2 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Control-M
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Bloomberg
2 4 (25.00%) Reuters
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) Refinitiv
4 1 (6.25%) CQG
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) ION Trading