Equities Contracts in Glasgow

Equities
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Equities 24 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.25% - 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.43% - 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £562
25th Percentile £525 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 - £664
90th Percentile - - £713
Scotland median daily rate £550 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 323 194 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.71% 28.03% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 140 205
10th Percentile £295 £301 £325
25th Percentile £365 £379 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £600
90th Percentile £584 £675 £688
Scotland median daily rate £457 £460 £494
% change year-on-year -0.65% -6.88% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £15.37 £18.83 £11.52
25th Percentile £16.98 £19.32 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.90 £31.82 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.45% +119.41% -34.09%
75th Percentile £29.35 £47.41 £47.73
90th Percentile £57.50 £53.46 £54.34
Scotland median hourly rate £18.67 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.95% +2.31% -55.70%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Glasgow

Equities
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Equities.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Equities

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (87.50%) DB2
1 21 (87.50%) MongoDB
1 21 (87.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (87.50%) JUnit
General
1 24 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (87.50%) Finance
3 19 (79.17%) Front Office
4 17 (70.83%) Banking
4 17 (70.83%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Developer
1 21 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 16 (66.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 16 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 16 (66.67%) Sybase Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) Kafka
2 21 (87.50%) JMS
2 21 (87.50%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (87.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Market Risk
3 2 (8.33%) Derivative
3 2 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Open Source
1 24 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (87.50%) Agile
2 21 (87.50%) Database Tuning
2 21 (87.50%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (87.50%) SDLC
3 19 (79.17%) Multithreading
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (12.50%) Observability
5 3 (12.50%) OO
5 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.17%) Data Management
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Management
6 1 (4.17%) Open Source Development
6 1 (4.17%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.17%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (87.50%) Java
2 21 (87.50%) Shell Script
2 21 (87.50%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) C++
3 3 (12.50%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Grafana
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Sybase
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk