Equities Contracts in London

Equities
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities 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 121 140 225
Rank change year-on-year +19 +85 -27
Contract jobs citing Equities 297 308 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.37% 1.73% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.58% 5.21% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 281 272
10th Percentile £638 £550 £475
25th Percentile £675 £650 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £938 £850 £800
90th Percentile - £888 £900
England median daily rate £775 £750 £700
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Equities in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Equities in London

Equities
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Equities in London

Equities
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities within the London 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
Central London +4 21 £670 -0.74% 7
South London - 2 - -
Equities
England

Equities
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 55 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (15.15%) Apache
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 81 (27.27%) AWS
2 55 (18.52%) dbt
3 47 (15.82%) Snowflake
4 44 (14.81%) GCP
5 19 (6.40%) Azure
6 17 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.72%) Dagster
7 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.04%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (40.40%) Data Lake
2 55 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
2 55 (18.52%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (18.52%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (18.52%) Dremio
3 29 (9.76%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.70%) DB2
6 11 (3.70%) KDB
6 11 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.02%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 13 (4.38%) JUnit
2 8 (2.69%) Git
3 7 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.02%) JIRA
5 4 (1.35%) Maven
5 4 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.67%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.67%) Gradle
7 2 (0.67%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Ant
8 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) Crucible
General
1 254 (85.52%) Finance
2 215 (72.39%) Front Office
3 119 (40.07%) Banking
4 102 (34.34%) Investment Banking
5 45 (15.15%) Social Skills
6 38 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.01%) Back Office
9 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) International Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Retail
9 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (38.38%) Developer
2 70 (23.57%) Software Engineer
3 58 (19.53%) Analyst
4 56 (18.86%) AWS Engineer
5 55 (18.52%) AWS Software Engineer
6 51 (17.17%) Java Developer
7 42 (14.14%) Business Analyst
8 40 (13.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 40 (13.47%) Senior
9 39 (13.13%) Java Engineer
10 38 (12.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (12.46%) Head of Finance
12 33 (11.11%) Python Engineer
13 31 (10.44%) Python Software Engineer
14 26 (8.75%) AWS Developer
14 26 (8.75%) Lead
14 26 (8.75%) Product Manager
15 24 (8.08%) Python Developer
16 22 (7.41%) Data Governance Manager
16 22 (7.41%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.47%) NumPy
1 40 (13.47%) Pandas
2 39 (13.13%) SciPy
3 33 (11.11%) PySpark
4 30 (10.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (9.76%) gRPC
6 25 (8.42%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.74%) React
8 18 (6.06%) Vue
9 17 (5.72%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (5.05%) Kafka
11 14 (4.71%) Node.js
12 12 (4.04%) Redux
13 11 (3.70%) JMS
13 11 (3.70%) Spring
14 7 (2.36%) Smart Contracts
15 5 (1.68%) .NET
16 4 (1.35%) HTML
16 4 (1.35%) HTML5
16 4 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 206 (69.36%) Fixed Income
1 206 (69.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 194 (65.32%) Derivative
3 164 (55.22%) Hedge funds
4 54 (18.18%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.38%) Equity Derivative
5 13 (4.38%) Pricing Data
6 12 (4.04%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.03%) Market Risk
7 9 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.36%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.01%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.43%) Linux
2 18 (6.06%) Apple iOS
3 12 (4.04%) Unix
4 8 (2.69%) Windows
5 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Debian
6 1 (0.34%) Fedora
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) SUSE
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (70.03%) Agile
2 152 (51.18%) Investment Management
3 110 (37.04%) Roadmaps
4 109 (36.70%) Migration
5 93 (31.31%) Regulatory Compliance
6 91 (30.64%) Asset Management
6 91 (30.64%) Data Governance
7 79 (26.60%) Data Management
8 75 (25.25%) Software Engineering
9 51 (17.17%) Analytics
10 36 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (11.11%) Order Management
12 26 (8.75%) Low Latency
13 22 (7.41%) Fintech
13 22 (7.41%) Portfolio Management
14 21 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (7.07%) SDLC
15 20 (6.73%) Machine Learning
16 19 (6.40%) Electronic Trading
16 19 (6.40%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 123 (41.41%) Python
2 103 (34.68%) Java
3 58 (19.53%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.51%) TypeScript
5 51 (17.17%) SQL
6 19 (6.40%) C++
7 14 (4.71%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.02%) C#
9 4 (1.35%) DAML
10 3 (1.01%) C
10 3 (1.01%) Perl
10 3 (1.01%) Solidity
11 2 (0.67%) Bash
11 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (10.10%) Degree
2 7 (2.36%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (1.35%) CFA
4 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.76%) MiFID
2 3 (1.01%) EMIR
3 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.67%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (0.67%) PMO
4 1 (0.34%) Basel III
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (1.01%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Control-M
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.34%) Kibana
2 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
2 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (4.38%) Sybase
2 6 (2.02%) Bloomberg
3 5 (1.68%) Reuters
4 3 (1.01%) Citrix
4 3 (1.01%) Oracle
4 3 (1.01%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.67%) CQG
5 2 (0.67%) Databricks
5 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.67%) IBM
5 2 (0.67%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.67%) Murex
5 2 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.34%) Charles River
6 1 (0.34%) Google
6 1 (0.34%) Patsystems
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.34%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.34%) Trayport