Kdb+ Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Kx Systems Kdb+
South West > Dorset

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.17% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 25 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 15.22% 21.55% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 27
10th Percentile £277 £445 £314
25th Percentile £353 £467 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -4.88% -2.38%
75th Percentile £478 £563 £825
90th Percentile £506 £643 -
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £570
% change year-on-year -1.18% -6.80% +3.64%

Kdb+
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kdb+ within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 November 2025. 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
Bournemouth - 2 - -
Kdb+
South West

Kdb+
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) KDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality