Kdb+ Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Kx Systems Kdb+
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Kdb+ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 125 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +67
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.098% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 0.48% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £498 £783 £703
25th Percentile £564 £796 £756
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £834 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% -16.58% +45.45%
75th Percentile £839 £865 -
90th Percentile £932 £872 -
Central London median daily rate £688 £834 £975
% change year-on-year -17.59% -14.44% +41.82%

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

Kdb+ falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 348 415 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.96% 20.36% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 269 352
10th Percentile £333 £407 £378
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £701
90th Percentile £749 £803 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £35.38 - -
25th Percentile £39.69 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £56.69 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £60.93 - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%

Kdb+
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kdb+ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Kdb+ job vacancy trend in the City of London

Kdb+
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kdb+.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kdb+

Kdb+
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in the City of London

Kdb+
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) QUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) KDB Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Altair
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (40.00%) Equities
4 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (20.00%) Derivative
4 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (60.00%) Quantitative Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Complexity Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Flow Trading
4 2 (40.00%) Physics
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft