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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 101 114
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Equities 26 20 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.17% 1.13% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.61% 3.32% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £501 £563 £480
25th Percentile £563 £613 £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £670 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -0.74% -
75th Percentile £749 £695 £688
90th Percentile £749 £745 £744
Central London median daily rate £660 £670 £675
% change year-on-year -1.49% -0.74% -

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 720 603 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.30% 34.16% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 382 474
10th Percentile £363 £363 £266
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £18.92 £37.90 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £48.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.07 £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +184.78% -55.34%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £93.10 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £23.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.59% -34.29%

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 20 April 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Collibra
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
1 4 (15.38%) Tableau
1 4 (15.38%) Tick Data
2 2 (7.69%) KDB
2 2 (7.69%) Kdb+
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Maven
2 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Front Office
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Banking
4 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
6 4 (15.38%) Back Office
7 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Marketing
8 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Fidessa Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Analyst
4 5 (19.23%) Business Analyst
5 4 (15.38%) Lead
6 3 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Functional Business Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) KDB Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
8 1 (3.85%) Market Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Market Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Power BI Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (3.85%) Risk Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
2 3 (11.54%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.54%) JMS
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Fixed Income
1 9 (34.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (26.92%) Derivative
3 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Order Management
2 8 (30.77%) Data Analysis
3 7 (26.92%) Asset Management
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (19.23%) Algorithmic Trading
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
7 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
7 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (11.54%) Greeks
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 10 (38.46%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) CFA
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) Basel III
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) IFRS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Grafana
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Charles River
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg
2 3 (11.54%) SimCorp
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Solace
3 2 (7.69%) Vermilion