Kdb+ Contracts in England

Kx Systems Kdb+
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Kdb+ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kdb+ over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 629 774
Rank change year-on-year +90 +145 -147
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.033% 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.24% 0.18% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile £635 £655 -
25th Percentile £650 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £894 -
90th Percentile £815 £1,000 -
UK median daily rate £800 £825 £700
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Kdb+ is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,223 8,796 14,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.89% 17.91% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,478 6,319 10,205
10th Percentile £350 £370 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 167 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £21.31
Median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.98% +71.67%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.11 £62.15
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kdb+ in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in England

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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 Kdb+ within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +101 15 £800 -3.03% 7
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UK

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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 9 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (6.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Front Office
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) KDB Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Unix Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
1 10 (66.67%) API Design
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Backtesting
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Science
5 1 (6.67%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (6.67%) PnL Attribution
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality