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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 231
Rank change year-on-year +6 +105 -31
Contract jobs citing Equities 289 335 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.33% 1.92% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.47% 5.75% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 309 261
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 £938 £850 £800
90th Percentile - £888 £875
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 4,465 5,828 9,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.94% 33.35% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,019 4,124 6,704
10th Percentile £337 £313 £375
25th Percentile £455 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 148 112
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.23 £18.41 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -19.54%
75th Percentile £50.13 £49.13 £63.88
90th Percentile £75.47 £69.50 £84.88
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.66%

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 19 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 19 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 +1 19 £670 -0.74% 12
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 60 (20.76%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (15.57%) Apache
3 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.38%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) DataSynapse
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 89 (30.80%) AWS
2 60 (20.76%) dbt
3 50 (17.30%) GCP
4 47 (16.26%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.27%) Azure
6 13 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (4.50%) Dagster
7 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.81%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) Multicast
3 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (39.79%) Data Lake
2 60 (20.76%) Amazon Athena
2 60 (20.76%) Apache Arrow
2 60 (20.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 60 (20.76%) Dremio
3 29 (10.03%) Apache Ignite
4 22 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.50%) DB2
7 10 (3.46%) KDB
8 4 (1.38%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.38%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.69%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.35%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 15 (5.19%) JUnit
2 9 (3.11%) Git
3 8 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.42%) JIRA
5 4 (1.38%) Maven
5 4 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.04%) Subversion
7 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.69%) Gradle
7 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) Crucible
General
1 246 (85.12%) Finance
2 208 (71.97%) Front Office
3 117 (40.48%) Banking
4 99 (34.26%) Investment Banking
5 42 (14.53%) Social Skills
6 37 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.38%) Back Office
8 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) International Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (41.87%) Developer
2 79 (27.34%) Software Engineer
3 61 (21.11%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (20.76%) AWS Software Engineer
5 55 (19.03%) Java Developer
6 50 (17.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 47 (16.26%) Analyst
8 44 (15.22%) Senior
9 42 (14.53%) Java Engineer
10 41 (14.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (13.15%) Python Engineer
12 37 (12.80%) Head of Finance
13 36 (12.46%) Python Software Engineer
14 31 (10.73%) AWS Developer
14 31 (10.73%) Business Analyst
15 26 (9.00%) Lead
16 24 (8.30%) Python Developer
17 23 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
18 21 (7.27%) Senior Java Engineer
18 21 (7.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.57%) NumPy
1 45 (15.57%) Pandas
2 44 (15.22%) SciPy
3 33 (11.42%) AngularJS
3 33 (11.42%) React
4 30 (10.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (10.03%) gRPC
5 29 (10.03%) PySpark
6 25 (8.65%) Vue
7 22 (7.61%) Node.js
8 18 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
9 17 (5.88%) Kafka
9 17 (5.88%) Redux
10 13 (4.50%) JMS
10 13 (4.50%) Spring
11 5 (1.73%) .NET
11 5 (1.73%) REST
11 5 (1.73%) Smart Contracts
12 4 (1.38%) HTML
12 4 (1.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 200 (69.20%) Fixed Income
1 200 (69.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 176 (60.90%) Derivative
3 152 (52.60%) Hedge funds
4 40 (13.84%) Product Ownership
5 18 (6.23%) Pricing Data
6 15 (5.19%) Equity Derivative
7 14 (4.84%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.42%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.73%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.38%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.04%) Grid Computing
13 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.03%) Linux
2 13 (4.50%) Unix
3 8 (2.77%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.77%) Windows
4 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Debian
5 1 (0.35%) Fedora
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) SUSE
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (69.55%) Agile
2 150 (51.90%) Investment Management
3 101 (34.95%) Migration
4 95 (32.87%) Roadmaps
5 91 (31.49%) Asset Management
6 88 (30.45%) Regulatory Compliance
7 86 (29.76%) Data Governance
8 85 (29.41%) Software Engineering
9 79 (27.34%) Data Management
10 37 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (12.11%) Analytics
12 32 (11.07%) Fintech
13 27 (9.34%) Order Management
14 25 (8.65%) Low Latency
14 25 (8.65%) Risk Management
15 23 (7.96%) SDLC
16 20 (6.92%) Multithreading
17 19 (6.57%) TDD
18 17 (5.88%) CI/CD
18 17 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.94%) Python
2 104 (35.99%) Java
3 66 (22.84%) JavaScript
4 63 (21.80%) TypeScript
5 55 (19.03%) SQL
6 20 (6.92%) C++
7 16 (5.54%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.08%) C#
9 4 (1.38%) DAML
10 3 (1.04%) C
11 2 (0.69%) Bash
11 2 (0.69%) Perl
11 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.69%) Scala
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) Solidity
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.61%) Degree
2 9 (3.11%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.04%) CFA
3 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.35%) CBAP
5 1 (0.35%) MBA
5 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.03%) MiFID
2 2 (0.69%) EMIR
2 2 (0.69%) PMO
3 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.35%) Basel III
3 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.35%) FINRA
3 1 (0.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.35%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Control-M
2 1 (0.35%) Grafana
2 1 (0.35%) Kibana
2 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
2 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (5.19%) Sybase
2 6 (2.08%) Bloomberg
3 5 (1.73%) Reuters
4 3 (1.04%) Citrix
4 3 (1.04%) Murex
4 3 (1.04%) Oracle
4 3 (1.04%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.69%) CQG
5 2 (0.69%) Databricks
5 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.69%) IBM
5 2 (0.69%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.35%) Charles River
6 1 (0.35%) Google
6 1 (0.35%) Patsystems
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.35%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.35%) Trayport