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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Equities over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 129 137
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing Equities 19 43 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.86% 1.18% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 3.30% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 35
10th Percentile £498 £260 £419
25th Percentile £650 £564 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +18.64%
75th Percentile £688 £950 £813
90th Percentile £740 £975 £913
Central London median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +18.90%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Equities is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) Kdb+
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (52.63%) Banking
2 8 (42.11%) Front Office
3 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Prime Brokerage
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Automation Tester
2 7 (36.84%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Python Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Support Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) NumPy
1 3 (15.79%) Pandas
2 2 (10.53%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.26%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Derivative
2 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.26%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
3 3 (15.79%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (10.53%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
4 2 (10.53%) Multithreading
4 2 (10.53%) SDLC
4 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.26%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Management
5 1 (5.26%) OO
5 1 (5.26%) Project Planning
5 1 (5.26%) RAD
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) IBM
1 1 (5.26%) Solace
1 1 (5.26%) TIBCO