Equities Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Equities
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Equities 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 2.13% - 4.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £568
25th Percentile £575 - £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £781
75th Percentile £625 - £973
90th Percentile - - £1,049
Central London median daily rate £660 £654 £675
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.15% -

All Generic Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29 15 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 61.70% 34.88% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 23
10th Percentile £200 £363 £475
25th Percentile £350 £403 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £570 £579 £825
90th Percentile £633 £664 £1,050
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -34.29%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Equities relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Equities job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Equities
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Equities.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Equities

Equities
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Mayfair - 1 £600 -
Equities
Central London

Equities
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python