Kdb+ Contracts in England

Kx Systems Kdb+
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 527 637
Rank change year-on-year +57 +110 +141
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.040% 0.032%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £574 £635 £655
25th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £825
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £750 - £894
90th Percentile £858 £815 £1,000
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £825
% change year-on-year -18.75% -3.03% +17.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +38 15 £675 -15.63% 24
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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) KDB
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Front Office
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 12 (80.00%) KDB Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Equities
2 5 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
3 4 (26.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (6.67%) Derivative
5 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Data Science
3 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (33.33%) Low Latency
4 4 (26.67%) Quantitative Finance
5 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
6 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
6 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) C++
3 3 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes