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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 116 127
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing Equities 11 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.57% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.88% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 24
10th Percentile £468 £591 £505
25th Percentile £622 £706 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £875 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +34.62% -
75th Percentile £721 £963 £778
90th Percentile £773 £980 £843
Central London median daily rate £675 £838 £700
% change year-on-year -19.40% +19.64% +6.87%

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 661 637 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.71% 30.26% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 390 639
10th Percentile £350 £360 £313
25th Percentile £450 £482 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -0.58% -
75th Percentile £694 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -2.75% -1.46% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

Equities
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

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 19 September 2025.

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 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Lucidchart
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Front Office
7 1 (9.09%) Back Office
7 1 (9.09%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Blockchain Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (36.36%) Fixed Income
3 3 (27.27%) Blockchain
3 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (9.09%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (27.27%) SDLC
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (27.27%) TDD
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Fund Management
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Management
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Greeks
3 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
3 1 (9.09%) Market Making
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) DAML
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CFA
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Bloomberg
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Refinitiv
2 3 (27.27%) Reuters