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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 106
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Equities 26 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.23% 0.80% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 2.32% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 14
10th Percentile £501 £549 £515
25th Percentile £563 £575 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -0.74% -
75th Percentile £749 £718 £730
90th Percentile £749 £753 £749
Central London median daily rate £660 £670 £675
% change year-on-year -1.49% -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 709 604 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.44% 34.69% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 393 499
10th Percentile £356 £365 £273
25th Percentile £457 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £18.71 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.45 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -63.11%
75th Percentile £46.39 - £38.88
90th Percentile £64.83 - £59.65
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £29.07 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.93% +53.00% -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 26 March 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) GCP
2 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Collibra
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
1 4 (15.38%) Tableau
1 4 (15.38%) Tick Data
2 3 (11.54%) KDB
2 3 (11.54%) Kdb+
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Maven
2 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Front Office
3 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (30.77%) Banking
5 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
6 4 (15.38%) Back Office
7 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Marketing
8 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Fidessa Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) KDB Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Functional Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Functional Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Implementation Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Report Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
2 3 (11.54%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.54%) JMS
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (34.62%) Fixed Income
3 8 (30.77%) Derivative
4 4 (15.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
5 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Order Management
2 8 (30.77%) Data Analysis
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Asset Management
4 6 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (19.23%) Algorithmic Trading
5 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (11.54%) PnL Attribution
7 3 (11.54%) Runbook
7 3 (11.54%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) CFA
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 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
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 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%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Solace
3 2 (7.69%) Vermilion