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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 99 106
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Equities 21 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.20% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 3.47% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 13
10th Percentile £491 £453 £500
25th Percentile £538 £613 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -0.74% -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £695 £700
90th Percentile £749 £745 £744
Central London median daily rate £650 £670 £675
% change year-on-year -2.99% -0.74% -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 734 606 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.87% 34.71% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 379 467
10th Percentile £372 £357 £263
25th Percentile £463 £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +3.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £843
Central London median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £23.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.08 £26.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.85 £65.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.20 £36.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -34.29%

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 9 May 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Fidessa
2 3 (14.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (4.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 4 (19.05%) SaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Collibra
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
1 4 (19.05%) Tableau
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Tick Data
3 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) KDB
3 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Banking
2 9 (42.86%) Front Office
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 4 (19.05%) Back Office
6 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (9.52%) Marketing
8 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
8 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Fidessa Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Functional Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Implementation Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) KDB Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (14.29%) JMS
2 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 3 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Fixed Income
1 8 (38.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (33.33%) Derivative
3 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 6 (28.57%) Order Management
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (23.81%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Attribution
5 3 (14.29%) PnL Attribution
5 3 (14.29%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) CFA
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) Basel III
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) IFRS
3 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Charles River
3 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 3 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 3 (14.29%) SimCorp
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Vermilion
5 1 (4.76%) Solace