KDB Contracts in the City of London

Kx Systems KDB
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring KDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KDB over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 111 168
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 +21
Contract jobs citing KDB 5 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.60% 0.083%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 2.71% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £493 £695 £733
25th Percentile £594 £823 £744
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £860 £825
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +4.18% +2.48%
75th Percentile £794 £1,129 £863
90th Percentile £873 £1,213 £878
Central London median daily rate £700 £860 £825
% change year-on-year -18.56% +4.18% +2.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 386 480 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.97% 22.09% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 321 484
10th Percentile £406 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £730
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing KDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for KDB 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 KDB in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for KDB in the City of London

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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 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KDB 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Strategist
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Market Making
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ION Trading