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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 112 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Equities 8 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.57% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 1.85% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 24
10th Percentile £627 £522 £510
25th Percentile £645 £723 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +25.93% +17.39%
75th Percentile £781 £953 £750
90th Percentile £843 £971 £843
Central London median daily rate £725 £850 £731
% change year-on-year -14.71% +16.24% +24.47%

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 669 649 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.87% 30.89% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 402 557
10th Percentile £350 £357 £317
25th Percentile £441 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +1.85% -14.96% -37.13%

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 5 November 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 & 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 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Tick Data
2 2 (25.00%) KDB
2 2 (25.00%) Kdb+
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Fidessa Developer
3 2 (25.00%) KDB Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (37.50%) Derivative
2 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) TWAP
3 1 (12.50%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Order Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 1 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) PnL Attribution
4 1 (12.50%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Solace
2 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft