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 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 111 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Equities 22 9 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 0.48% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.22% 1.54% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 16
10th Percentile £501 £596 £463
25th Percentile £594 £645 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -0.74% +8.00%
75th Percentile £749 £838 £744
90th Percentile £769 £913 £745
Central London median daily rate £670 £670 £675
% change year-on-year - -0.74% +3.85%

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 683 586 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.68% 31.44% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 369 498
10th Percentile £352 £376 £300
25th Percentile £453 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £18.51 - -
25th Percentile £20.04 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £38.69 - £41.63
90th Percentile £41.85 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +7.46% -31.43%

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 26 January 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) SaaS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Tick Data
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Tableau
3 2 (9.09%) KDB
3 2 (9.09%) Kdb+
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Maven
2 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Front Office
4 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (22.73%) Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Back Office
6 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (9.09%) Marketing
8 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
8 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Fidessa Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) KDB Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Functional Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Functional Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Implementation Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.55%) JMS
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Derivative
1 7 (31.82%) Fixed Income
1 7 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.55%) TWAP
4 1 (4.55%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Order Management
2 7 (31.82%) Translating Business Requirements
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.64%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) Low Latency
6 3 (13.64%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
6 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.09%) AI
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CFA
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Basel III
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) IFRS
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SimCorp
2 3 (13.64%) Solace
3 2 (9.09%) Charles River
3 2 (9.09%) Vermilion
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk