Kdb+ Contracts in London

Kx Systems Kdb+
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 338 376 478
Rank change year-on-year +38 +102 +116
Contract jobs citing Kdb+ 15 15 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.084% 0.055%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% 0.39% 0.27%
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
England median daily rate £675 £800 £825
% change year-on-year -15.63% -3.03% +17.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kdb+ in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kdb+ in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kdb+ in London

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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 Kdb+ 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
South London - 2 - -
Central London +4 1 £700 -
Kdb+
England

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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:

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