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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 100 105
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Equities 26 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.07% 0.93% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.42% 2.68% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 15
10th Percentile £549 £425 £543
25th Percentile £625 £588 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.63% -5.56% -3.57%
75th Percentile £938 £703 £772
90th Percentile - £750 £948
Central London median daily rate £699 £638 £675
% change year-on-year +9.61% -5.56% -3.57%

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 760 598 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.34% 34.61% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 380 440
10th Percentile £365 £357 £285
25th Percentile £463 £475 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £810 £839
Central London median daily rate £563 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -3.02% +0.87% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £19.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.25 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.07 £47.36 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +105.90% -55.34%
75th Percentile £51.36 £82.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £94.38 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £23.40
% change year-on-year +44.48% +24.23% -37.46%

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 20 June 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
Equities
Central London

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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Fidessa
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.69%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Collibra
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.69%) Tableau
1 2 (7.69%) Tick Data
2 1 (3.85%) KDB
2 1 (3.85%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Maven
2 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Front Office
3 12 (46.15%) Banking
4 10 (38.46%) Investment Banking
5 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Back Office
8 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
8 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Marketing
9 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Senior
3 8 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (19.23%) React Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior React Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior UI Developer
5 5 (19.23%) UI Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Analyst
6 4 (15.38%) Lead
7 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
7 3 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Fidessa Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (7.69%) Functional Business Analyst
9 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
9 1 (3.85%) Derivatives Business Analyst
9 1 (3.85%) Risk Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (19.23%) React
1 5 (19.23%) Redux
2 3 (11.54%) JMS
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 12 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (23.08%) Derivative
4 5 (19.23%) Algorithms
4 5 (19.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
6 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Electronic Trading
2 8 (30.77%) Low Latency
3 7 (26.92%) Asset Management
4 6 (23.08%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (23.08%) Analytics
4 6 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) Order Management
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
7 3 (11.54%) Data Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (23.08%) C#
6 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.69%) Scala
8 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) IFRS
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GAAP
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Grafana
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Charles River
3 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
3 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg
3 3 (11.54%) SimCorp
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Vermilion
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Solace