Equities Contracts 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 102 143
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +9
Contract jobs citing Equities 16 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.92% 0.93% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 3.03% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 30
10th Percentile £425 £543 £516
25th Percentile £588 £663 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £675 £713
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -10.94%
75th Percentile £703 £772 £844
90th Percentile £750 £948 £950
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £713
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -10.94%

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 601 660 1,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.70% 30.77% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 432 782
10th Percentile £357 £285 £344
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £712 £700 £750
90th Percentile £804 £849 £862
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £19.25 £12.75 £18.06
25th Percentile £24.25 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.36 £23.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.90% -55.34% +10.75%
75th Percentile £82.96 £27.00 £86.02
90th Percentile £94.38 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £37.42
% change year-on-year +24.23% -37.46% -19.54%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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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 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in the City of London

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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 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) KDB
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) Crucible
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
3 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
5 3 (18.75%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Software Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (43.75%) Fixed Income
3 3 (18.75%) Blockchain
3 3 (18.75%) Derivative
3 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
4 3 (18.75%) Market Making
4 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (12.50%) Fund Management
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) DAML
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) EMIR
1 2 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Control-M
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Bloomberg
2 4 (25.00%) Reuters
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) Refinitiv
4 1 (6.25%) CQG
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) ION Trading