Equities Contracts in England

Equities
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 249 368
Rank change year-on-year +21 +119 -26
Contract jobs citing Equities 275 343 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 0.94% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 3.07% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 314 268
10th Percentile £638 £550 £475
25th Percentile £675 £650 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £800
90th Percentile £938 £888 £904
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,152 11,176 16,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.20% 30.76% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 7,323 11,208
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 821 571
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.97 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.30 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £22.08
% change year-on-year -2.58% +45.45% -19.71%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Equities as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Equities in England

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Equities in England.

Daily rate trend for Equities in England

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in England

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Equities in England.

Hourly rate trend for Equities in England

Equities
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +5 271 £775 +3.33% 348
North of England +16 2 - - 45
Yorkshire - 2 - - 23
South West - 1 £575 - 20
Equities
UK

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (21.09%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (15.64%) Apache
3 6 (2.18%) Confluence
4 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
2 1 (0.36%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 87 (31.64%) AWS
2 58 (21.09%) dbt
3 46 (16.73%) GCP
4 45 (16.36%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.64%) Azure
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (3.27%) Dagster
7 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.64%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
3 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (37.45%) Data Lake
2 58 (21.09%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (21.09%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (21.09%) Apache Iceberg
2 58 (21.09%) Dremio
3 27 (9.82%) Apache Ignite
4 22 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.82%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.09%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.73%) DB2
8 10 (3.64%) KDB
9 4 (1.45%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.36%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 15 (5.45%) JUnit
2 9 (3.27%) Git
2 9 (3.27%) JIRA
3 8 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.45%) Maven
4 4 (1.45%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.09%) Subversion
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.73%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.73%) Gradle
6 2 (0.73%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.36%) Crucible
General
1 229 (83.27%) Finance
2 188 (68.36%) Front Office
3 117 (42.55%) Banking
4 99 (36.00%) Investment Banking
5 45 (16.36%) Social Skills
6 38 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.45%) Back Office
8 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.73%) Legal
8 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) International Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (44.00%) Developer
2 77 (28.00%) Software Engineer
3 59 (21.45%) AWS Engineer
4 58 (21.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 54 (19.64%) Java Developer
6 50 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 45 (16.36%) Senior
8 42 (15.27%) Java Engineer
9 41 (14.91%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (14.55%) Analyst
11 38 (13.82%) Python Engineer
12 37 (13.45%) Head of Finance
13 36 (13.09%) Python Software Engineer
14 31 (11.27%) AWS Developer
15 27 (9.82%) Lead
16 23 (8.36%) Business Analyst
16 23 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (8.00%) Python Developer
17 22 (8.00%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (8.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.64%) NumPy
1 43 (15.64%) Pandas
2 42 (15.27%) SciPy
3 33 (12.00%) AngularJS
3 33 (12.00%) React
4 28 (10.18%) Protocol Buffers
5 27 (9.82%) gRPC
6 25 (9.09%) PySpark
6 25 (9.09%) Vue
7 22 (8.00%) Node.js
8 18 (6.55%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (6.55%) Kafka
9 17 (6.18%) Redux
10 13 (4.73%) JMS
10 13 (4.73%) Spring
11 5 (1.82%) .NET
11 5 (1.82%) Middleware
11 5 (1.82%) REST
11 5 (1.82%) Smart Contracts
12 4 (1.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (67.27%) Fixed Income
1 185 (67.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 159 (57.82%) Derivative
3 134 (48.73%) Hedge funds
4 24 (8.73%) Product Ownership
5 21 (7.64%) Pricing Data
6 16 (5.82%) Equity Derivative
7 14 (5.09%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.55%) Market Risk
10 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.82%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.09%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.91%) Linux
2 13 (4.73%) Unix
3 8 (2.91%) Windows
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Debian
6 1 (0.36%) Fedora
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) SUSE
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (66.55%) Agile
2 137 (49.82%) Investment Management
3 87 (31.64%) Migration
4 83 (30.18%) Asset Management
4 83 (30.18%) Software Engineering
5 80 (29.09%) Data Management
6 79 (28.73%) Roadmaps
7 78 (28.36%) Regulatory Compliance
8 76 (27.64%) Data Governance
9 39 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.64%) Fintech
11 28 (10.18%) Analytics
12 26 (9.45%) Low Latency
12 26 (9.45%) Risk Management
13 23 (8.36%) SDLC
14 21 (7.64%) Multithreading
14 21 (7.64%) Order Management
15 19 (6.91%) TDD
16 18 (6.55%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.55%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 126 (45.82%) Python
2 103 (37.45%) Java
3 64 (23.27%) JavaScript
4 61 (22.18%) TypeScript
5 59 (21.45%) SQL
6 23 (8.36%) C++
7 17 (6.18%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.18%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) C
9 4 (1.45%) DAML
10 2 (0.73%) Bash
10 2 (0.73%) Perl
10 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.73%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.36%) Solidity
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (6.18%) Degree
2 10 (3.64%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.09%) CFA
3 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.36%) CBAP
5 1 (0.36%) MBA
5 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.55%) MiFID
2 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.73%) EMIR
2 2 (0.73%) PMO
3 1 (0.36%) Basel III
3 1 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.36%) FINRA
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Control-M
2 1 (0.36%) Grafana
2 1 (0.36%) Kibana
2 1 (0.36%) Rundeck
2 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (5.45%) Sybase
2 6 (2.18%) Bloomberg
3 5 (1.82%) Reuters
4 3 (1.09%) Citrix
4 3 (1.09%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.09%) Murex
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle
4 3 (1.09%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.73%) CQG
5 2 (0.73%) Databricks
5 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.73%) IBM
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Calypso
6 1 (0.36%) Charles River
6 1 (0.36%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) Patsystems
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.36%) TIBCO