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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 112 114
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Equities 17 17 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 0.90% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 2.47% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 9
10th Percentile £625 £453 £591
25th Percentile £693 £613 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £675 £875
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% -22.86% +22.81%
75th Percentile £938 £750 £963
90th Percentile - £773 £980
Central London median daily rate £804 £675 £838
% change year-on-year +19.07% -19.40% +15.52%

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 814 687 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.85% 36.52% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 462 426
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +2.13% -4.47%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £809 £838
Central London median daily rate £555 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +1.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £19.34 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £22.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -27.84%
75th Percentile £42.13 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £28.29 £25.40
% change year-on-year +26.64% +11.36% -27.43%

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 9 August 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the City of London region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
Equities
Central London

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (5.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) KDB
2 1 (5.88%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (76.47%) Banking
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Front Office
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (29.41%) React Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Senior React Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Senior UI Developer
4 5 (29.41%) UI Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) React
1 5 (29.41%) Redux
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Ultra Messaging
3 2 (11.76%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) XML
4 1 (5.88%) JMS
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (47.06%) Fixed Income
3 5 (29.41%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (23.53%) Derivative
5 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
6 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Electronic Trading
2 7 (41.18%) Low Latency
3 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
4 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (11.76%) Greeks
5 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
5 2 (11.76%) PnL Attribution
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) C#
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GAAP
1 1 (5.88%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.88%) Charles River
3 1 (5.88%) Solace
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk